Noor Zahid VOA News January 5, 2017 WASHINGTON — Instead of a slowdown in fighting during Afghanistan’s harsh winter, government security forces say they will press their operations against the Taliban and Islamic State group despite heavy snow and bitter cold. “Taliban and other terrorist groups will not be allowed to claim territory over the next
Press TV January 3, 2017 People in western Afghanistan have staged a massive protest against growing sectarian attacks on Shia Muslims by the Takfiri Daesh terrorists. About 2,000 demonstrators, holding pictures of Shia Muslims killed in recent terrorist attacks, marched on the governor’s office in the city of Herat on Tuesday. The protesters chanted slogans
Noor Zahid VOA News December 20, 2016 Hundreds of local villagers freed from Islamic State control in a remote eastern Afghan district are signing up to join a militia to fight IS, provincial authorities said. Officials in eastern Nangarhar province said hundreds of men have waited in long lines to become part of the militia.
Mohammad Habibzada VOA News December 17, 2016 Grateful residents of eastern Afghanistan whose villages were freed from control by Islamic State militants have begun enlisting for service with the Afghan National Security Forces and provincial police, local authorities say. Afghan joint forces drove IS extremists out of the Pachir Agam district in Nangarhar province about
Tolo News: Nangarhar governor Gulab Mangal on Tuesday said the Hizb-e-Islami leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar will move to the province in the near future and they are ready to welcome him. Mangal said Hekmatyar will live in Nangarhar until his name has been removed from the UN’s black list. The governor said they have allocated a house
VOA News November 30, 2016 NANGARHAR/WASHINGTON — Officials in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarar province say the Islamic State group is trying to imprint a lasting legacy on children in the region through an increasing network of religious seminaries and schools. Authorities say IS runs at least 25 seminaries in four districts of the province where children are
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 20, 2016 Afghan officials say a top commander of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group has been killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Nangarhar provincial governor said Mullah Bozorg, a leader of the IS group in Afghanistan, was killed along with seven
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 31, 2016 A suicide bomber has killed six people and wounded six others at a meeting of tribal elders in the eastern province of Nangarhar. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the October 31 attack in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province. Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor
Reuters: An airstrike in Afghanistan on Friday hit the home of a Taliban commander in the eastern province of Nangarhar and caused several civilian casualties, government and insurgent spokesmen said. The strike targeted the home of Mawlawi Mohammad Alam, a Taliban commander in the Sherzad district, said Attaullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial governor, adding that
Noor Zahid Zabihullah Ghazi VOA News October 21, 2016 WASHINGTON/NANGARHAR, AFGHANISTAN — A contingent of local militiamen, backed by Afghan Taliban militants, are battling Islamic State fighters in a remote district in eastern Afghanistan, according to interviews with regional authorities and local tribesmen. More than 80 people have been killed or wounded in the fighting, the