RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 2, 2017 An Afghan hospital official says at least 33 people have been killed and more than 60 injured, many of them critically, by a suicide bomber and gunman who attacked a Shi’ite Muslim mosque in the western city of Herat on August 1. Authorities said a suicide bomber detonated
VOA News June 16, 2017 WASHINGTON — The Associated Press is quoting an anonymous Trump administration official as saying the Pentagon will send almost 4,000 additional American forces to Afghanistan to assist the South Asian nation in its fight against a renascent Taliban insurgency. That number is similar to previous reports from other Trump administration officials.
Mehdi Jedinia / Noor Zahid VOA News March 7, 2017 WASHINGTON — Authorities in Iran have handed over keys for dozens of apartments to families of Afghan Shi’ite fighters killed fighting on behalf of Iranian forces at the Syrian front. Access to more than 30 free flats was given to Afghan families in a ceremony last
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 6, 2017 An Afghan official says unidentified gunmen have killed at least seven coal miners in northern Afghanistan, revising the death toll which was earlier put at 13. Faiz Mohammad Amiri, the district governor of Tala wa Barfak, in Baghlan Province, told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that the miners were
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
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 22, 2016 An international rights group has urged the Afghan government to develop a “security plan” to better protect the minority Shi’a community during high-profile public events. Human Rights Watch (HRW) made the call in a statement on November 21, a day after a suicide bomber killed at least 30
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 21, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Monday’s suicide bombing of a Shi’ite mosque in the Afghan capital that killed at least 32 people and wounded more than 80 others. The bomber entered the crowded Baqir ul Olum Mosque in Kabul during a religious ceremony and detonated the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 12, 2016 Two separate attacks targeting members of Afghanistan’s Shi’ite minority during the festival of Ashura have left several dozen people dead and scores wounded. In the latest attack, at least 14 people were killed on October 12 in a bomb attack outside a mosque in the northern province of
VOA News Ayesha Tanzeem October 11, 2016 KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — Gunmen, reportedly wearing Afghan police uniforms, stormed a packed shrine for Shi’ite Muslims in Kabul late Tuesday and opened fire, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 30 others. Officials and witnesses said a suicide bomber blew himself up as the assault began in
1TV: Citing measures to ensure security, Afghan officials on Thursday announced a ban on Ashura street processions. Ashura, a day which is marked widely by Shiite to mourn the martyrdom of Hussain Ibn Ali, the grandson of Prophet Mohammad, falls on October 12. At a press press briefing, Afghanistan Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs and Kabul