Gul Ahmad Gerani, district police chief of Shar-e-Safa district of Zabul province, was gunned down by unknown armed men in Kandahar today.
Aziz Ahmad Azizi, spokesman for Kandahar governor, said that the armed men fled the area after gunning down Gerani and injuring one of his bodyguard.
Aziz added that the incident happened around 12:00 pm today in Kandahar PD9th.
No group has yet claimed responsibility.
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Baghlan police said today that Taliban insurgents destroyed an electricity pylon in Baghlan province late Friday night.
According to the officials, the destruction of the pylon, which transmits electricity from Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, has left much of Kabul without power.
Late Friday night Taliban insurgents detonated explosives close to the pylon in Doshe district of Baghlan, police said.
With the destruction of this pylon, electricity has...
Fuel theft has become a lucrative business in Afghanistan, with at least 154.4 million USD in fuel stolen from either the US military or the ANDSF, according to a Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) report.
Afghan government officials are yet to comment on SIGAR report.
“The stolen fuel may have funded terrorists and destabilized the Afghanistan government,” the report reads.
The Department of State...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani held a telephonic conversation with President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev.
A press release from ARG (Presidential Palace) stated that congratulated Ilham Aliyev on his victory in the presidential election and wished him success in his presidential activity for the development of Azerbaijan.
The statement added that President Ilham Aliyev thanked President Ghani for the attention and congratulations.
During the phone conversation, the...
The US, UK and France have launched airstrikes "on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities" in Syria, US President Donald Trump announced early on Saturday.
The strikes come after a suspected chemical weapons attack in the former rebel stronghold of Douma last weekend.
The Pentagon said the air strikes, which began at 4am Syrian time, involved planes and ship-launched missiles, more than a hundred...
At least 257 passengers have been reported killed, after a military plane crashed near the Boufarik airbase outside the Algerian capital, Algiers, media reports said.
The plane, an Ilyushin Il-76, was carrying scores of military troops, according to the reports.
Algerie24, a local news website, said the plane was heading to the western Algerian city of Bechar.
Images posted on an Algerian website showed thick smoke...
Six members of a family were killed as a result of personal enmity in the Behsud district of Nangarhar province.
The governor’s house said the incident took place in the Saracha Naghlo area of the district late on Tuesday night. The killers managed to escape, a statement from the governor’s office said.
It added four brothers entered the house of their uncle named Salam and...
The director of agriculture and livestock of Ghor Abdul Tawab Taeb and a member of provincial council were injured in a roadside mine explosion.
Abdulhai Khatibi, spokesman for Ghor governor, told Killid that Ghor agriculture director was on his way to centre of the province when his car hit a roadside mine around 9:30 am today.
Khatibi added that Taeb and a member of provincial...
Security officials in Maidan Wardak said that Gen. Fahim Qayem, chief of Maidan Wardak police, survived a Taliban ambush in Porak area of Logar province while he was on his way to Paktia province earlier this morning.
Naqib Amini, spokesman for Maidan Wardak police, said that the clash lasted for one hour in which two bodyguards of Qayem were injured but the chief himself...
Rival draft resolutions by the US and Russia to set up a new expert body to probe chemical weapons attacks in Syria have both failed to pass at the United Nations Security Council.
The votes on Tuesday came amid an escalating war of words between Washington and Moscow and a looming threat of Western military action following a suspected gas attack on the Syrian...
