VOA News Ayaz Gul August 1, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Authorities in Afghanistan have declared a far eastern border district free of Islamic State militants, saying security forces killed nearly 300 IS militants during a month-long offensive. Provincial governor Salim Khan Kundozi made the announcement Monday during a visit to the Kot district in Nangarhar province, which borders
VOA News Carla Babb July 28, 2016 PENTAGON—Increases in airstrikes, U.S. injuries, and a wider range of authorities for U.S. troops are revealing a much more involved U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, despite a planned reduction of troops there by the end of the year. The top U.S. general in Afghanistan said Thursday his forces
Press TV July 26, 2016 At least 120 members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have been killed in an Afghan army offensive in the northern province of Nangarhar. The offensive comes against the backdrop of the July 23 deadly bombings in the capital Kabul, where at least 80 people were killed. Daesh claimed the
Press TV July 16, 2016 Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani has ordered the country’s National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) to launch a major operation against Daesh-linked terrorists in an eastern province. Ghani announced the order during a Friday speech before the Afghan military forces in a visit to Nangarhar Province, which has witnessed an increasing
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 13, 2016 Pakistan’s military says that the mastermind of a 2014 attack on a Pakistani school that killed about 150 people, mainly children, has been killed by a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan. Pakistani Army spokesman Lieutenant General Asim Bajwa said on July 13 that a U.S. Army general had
Press TV July 2, 2016 A major blast has rocked the Afghan city of Jalalabad in the eastern Nangarhar Province, killing at least two civilians and wounding 17 others. The Saturday explosion took place in the provincial capital when a bomber detonated his explosives in the third police district of the city, apparently meant to
Tolo News: A reliable security source told TOLOnews on Friday morning that Hesarak district in Nangarhar is on the verge of falling to the insurgent Taliban. The source said four outposts of national and local police force members had fallen to Taliban on Thursday night, adding that two other outposts collapsed on Wednesday night. According to the source,
VOA News Ayesha Tanzeem June 29, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghanistan’s national security adviser has accused Pakistan, without directly naming the country, of providing financial and logistical support to Islamic State (IS) fighters in Afghanistan. Hanif Atmar told journalists Wednesday in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, that his country’s security forces this week arrested three IS
Press TV June 25, 2016 Terrorists affiliated with the Daesh Takfiri group have kidnapped at least 30 people, including women, during an attack in Afghanistan’s troubled eastern province of Nangarhar. Afghanistan’s Khaama news service on Saturday quoted Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for Nangarhar, as saying that the terrorists launched coordinated attacks against local police checkpoints
Press TV June 13, 2016 More than a dozen members of the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group have been killed in operations by Afghan security forces against the extremists in the country’s eastern province of Nangarhar. In a statement released on Sunday, the Afghan Ministry of Defense announced that the operations were carried out in the