8am: According to eyewitnesses, the gunmen took away Taliban weapons after killing them. The Taliban have not yet commented on the incident. Attacks on Taliban bases, vehicles and checkpoints in Nangarhar province have increased to an unprecedented level. Click here to read more (external link).
8am: In a letter issued, the Taliban’s Ministry of Virtue Promotion has instructed the health authorities of the Nazi district of Nangarhar province not to allow women without Islamic hijab and a male guardian to enter the hospital. During a visit to hospitals in the Nazi district of the province, the Taliban Virtue Promoters warned
8am: Local sources in Nangarhar province have confirmed that as a result of a roadside mine in Khogyani district, four Taliban rebels are killed and another injured. So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News January 10, 2022 ISLAMABAD — Officials in Afghanistan said Monday at least nine young students were killed and four wounded when an explosive remnant of war accidentally detonated outside a school in eastern Nangarhar province. The provincial governor’s office said in a statement the incident in Lalpur district occurred when an old
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi November 12, 2021 At least two people have been killed and more than a dozen wounded in a blast inside a mosque in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar, officials say. The explosion occurred during Friday Prayers in the village of Tarela in Nangarhar’s Spin Ghar district on November 12. Local officials who
8am: Local sources in Nangarhar province confirmed that three people, including a cleric, have been killed in three separate incidents in the provincial capital. It is worth noting that after the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the number of criminal incidents and suspected serial killings has increased unprecedently in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Tolo News: At least four people have died of dengue fever amidst the outbreak of the viral disease in the province where officials said 26 people have been infected with the virus in the last two weeks. Officials said that the cases have been reported in remote districts of the province that share a border
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 25, 2021 At least one person was killed and seven others wounded in an explosion in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Nangarhar that hit a Taliban convoy on September 25, local officials said. The blast occurred in Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Province, a provincial Taliban spokesman told the dpa news
Tolo News: Jalalabad city in the eastern province of Nangarhar witnessed five security incidents on Wednesday morning. Four explosions in different parts of the city took the lives of two people and injured three others, eyewitnesses told TOLO news. Click here to read more (external link).
Ariana: Taliban’s head of intelligence directorate in Nangarhar said on Monday that 40 people have been arrested in connection with explosions that rocked Jalalabad city on Saturday and Sunday. The intelligence chief, Dr Bashir, also confirmed that four people had died and six others were wounded in the explosions – three on Saturday and one