By Ayaz Gul VOA News October 23, 2020 ISLAMABAD – The Taliban has killed at least 23 Afghan soldiers in fresh attacks, as a stalemate persists in U.S.-brokered peace talks under way in Qatar. Officials said Friday insurgents overnight staged a major assault on an Afghan National Army (ANA) base in Khashrod district in southwestern
Ariana: Vice President Amrullah Saleh has ordered the arrest of the individual who reported civilian casualties from an Afghan government airstrike on October 22, 2020, Human Rights Watch said Thursday. The Afghan air forces targeted a Taliban gathering at a mosque in Hazara Qarluq village in Takhar on Wednesday morning in which at least 12
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 22, 2020 Afghan officials say 12 children were killed and several others were wounded in an air strike on a mosque in the northern Takhar Province. The strike occurred on October 21 in the Baharak district, some 15 kilometers from the regional capital of Takhar, where Taliban fighters had killed
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 21, 2020 At least nine Afghan soldiers were killed in an attack late on September 20 despite ongoing negotiations between the Taliban and the Kabul government. Taliban militants killed the nine soldiers during the night in the northern province of Takhar, security officials said. The attack took place in the
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan August 20, 2020 Afghan officials say Taliban militants have killed at least 18 people and wounded eight others in two fresh attacks in Takhar and Nangarhar provinces. The insurgents attacked pro-government militia forces in Takhar’s Khwaja Bahauddin district overnight, killing at least 13 members of the force, local police said on
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 18, 2020 Afghan security officials say a mortar shell has exploded inside a religious school in northern Afghanistan, killing at least nine students. “The initial investigation shows that the blast was caused by a mortar that had somehow been carried inside the madrasah,” police spokesman Khalil Asir said on June
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 13, 2020 Afghan officials say at least 17 people have been killed in a string of attacks across the country. There was no claim of responsibility for the series of attacks on June 13. Violence in the country has spiked in recent weeks despite progress toward the launch of direct
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan May 20, 2020 KABUL — U.S. special peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is in Kabul to press the Taliban and Afghan government to start delayed talks amid an uptick in violence — including two more deadly attacks overnight — that threatens to unravel a landmark peace deal between Washington and the militants
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 29, 2019 A Taliban attack in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar Province has killed 17 local militiamen, local officials said on December 29. The attack apparently targeted a local militia commander who escaped unharmed, a spokesman for the governor of Takhar Province said. The area is currently under the control of government
VOA News November 2, 2019 A land mine explosion in Afghanistan claimed the lives of 9 children Saturday as they walked to school, according to police. Spokesman Khalil Asir said the mine detonated in the northeastern province of Takhar, killing the children, who were nine to 12 years old. Asir said the Taliban planted anti-personnel