Khaama Press: 16 people have sustained injuries in a hand grenade explosion in eastern Nangarhar province. Governor’s spokesperson said that security guards of Ali Baba Company were in a vehicle when one of them accidentally exploded a hand grenade. Click here to read more (external link).
AOPNEWS | February 3, 2016 Ghazni: Taliban (Mansur faction) announced today that a landmine they had planted hit an Afghan army tank in the Qarabagh district. They reported that the explosion killed two Afghan government soldiers. Khost: A magnetic bomb explosion left one person wounded in the capital today, according to Afghan officials. Kunduz: Local
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 3, 2016 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN—Authorities in Pakistan have arrested the suspected main facilitator of last month’s attack on a university that killed at least 21 people, mostly students. Intelligence sources confirmed to VOA on Wednesday that security operatives detained the suspect from an area not far from the northwestern town of
Tolo News: Local officials in Nangarhar said Wednesday that most farmers in the eastern province have resumed poppy cultivation in their areas, accusing government of focusing on security issues rather than assisting them in agriculture. “Poppies have been cultivated in 12 districts in Nangarhar over the past year. We are trying to stop the trend with
AOPNEWS | February 2, 2016 Badakhshan: Twenty-one Taliban fighters have been captured in Tishkan district, Afghan security officials said today. Badghis: An insider attack in Qadis district left 4 policemen dead, according to government officials. The attackers were 9 fellow policemen who, after shooting their fellow officers, took their weapons, abandoning their check post. Helmand:
VOA News Ayaz Gul February 2, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Authorities in Afghanistan said Tuesday that airstrikes conducted with the support of the United States in a restive eastern region have destroyed an Islamic State radio station along with its Internet communications and other facilities. The air raids also killed 29 Islamic State fighters, including five staff at
Press TV / February 1, 2016 The United States has carried out airstrikes against the Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group in Afghanistan, expanding Washington’s military campaign against the militants beyond Iraq and Syria. The US military has conducted at least a dozen operations in the past three weeks against militants aligned with Daesh in Afghanistan, theNew
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 30, 2016 Afghan officials say a TV journalist has been shot dead by unknown assailants in eastern Nangarhar Province. Haji Mohammad Zubair Khaksar, who was a Nangarhar correspondent for Afghanistan’s national TV and Radio network, was gunned down in Surkhrod district, the office of the provincial governor said on January
VOA News Jeff Seldin January 28, 2016 The U.S. Army general picked to lead U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan warns the security situation there is deteriorating despite a valiant effort by Afghan forces. Lieutenant-General John “Mick” Nicholson told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday that terror groups like Islamic State and al-Qaida continue
VOA News Zabihullah Ghazi January 27, 2016 JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN—The Islamic State group in Afghanistan has added new programming to its radio broadcasts that the Afghan government has failed to take off the air. The IS-run FM station “Voice of the Caliphate,” which broadcasts from a remote mobile transmitter on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, this week added