President Ashraf Ghani has approved Balkh Governor Atta Mohammad Noor’s resignation today. Munira Yousufzada, spokesperson for Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG), posted on her Facebook page today that Ghani has approved Noor’s resignation. President Ghani has appointed Engineer Mohammad Dawood as the new governor for Balkh. Noor has not commented on his resignation yet. ...
NATO special operators participated in the 28th iteration of the Resolute Support Mission Special Operations Forces pre-deployment training course in Mons, Belgium, Dec. 4-15, 2017. The course provides NATO SOF shared understanding of the NATO Special Operations Component Command-Afghanistan current operation and staff procedures. “The pre-deployment training is an essential component in preparing NATO SOF for their future assignments with NSOCC-A,” said a NSOCC-A...
A five-day polio campaign will begin in Kabul, southern provinces, southwest provinces, and other parts of the country and will run until Friday. Mer Jan Rasekh, head of public awareness centre at national anti-polio programme, said that the campaign will immunise 6 million children under the age of five. According to the figures, 12 polio cases had been registered in Afghanistan. Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria are...
A suicide attack rocked Kandahar province this afternoon. Qudratullah Khoshbakht, spokesman for Kandahar governor, told Killid that the incident happened around 2 pm today in PD 5th area of Spenboldak district. Meanwhile Gen. Abdul Raziq, chief of Kandahar police, said that the target of the attack was a convoy of foreign forces. Raziq added that there were no casualties among foreign forces. No individual or group has...
Five people were killed, while 16 were injured on Sunday as terrorists attacked the Bethel Memorial Church located on Zarghoon Road, Quetta, Pakistan. Inspector General Police (IGP) Balochistan, Moazzam Ansari said 400 people were present inside the church at the time of the attack. “Security forces have cleared the church,” Ansari added. Pakistani media reported that gunshots could be heard following a blast in the...
Iqbal Baher, spokesman for Farah police, told Killid that Taliban militants attacked a supply convoy of Afghan security forces in Todanak area of Balablok district. He added that five Taliban insurgents were killed and eight injured in the clashes with security forces. In a separate incident, Taliban insurgents attacked a security check post in Sor area of Farah in which two Taliban insurgents were killed...
Two days before he was killed, Ibrahim Abu Thurayyah filmed a message to the Israeli army. "I am passing a message to the Zionist occupation army," the 29-year-old double amputee, who lost both of his legs and a kidney in a 2008 Israeli air raid, said. "This land is our land. We are not going to give up. America has to withdraw the declaration it...
Ataullah Khogyani, spokesman for Nangarhar governor, said that seven Daesh militants were killed and five injured in air and ground operations conducted by Afghan security forces in Haska Mina and Khogyani districts over the past 24 hours. He added that eight villages in Wazir Perokhail area were cleared of Daesh. In a separate incident, two Daesh militants were killed in an airstrike in Haska Mina. Daesh...
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held talks with former Afghan President Hamid Karzai on key bilateral issues as well as security situation in the region yesterday evening. "Delighted to meet my friend Karzai in New Delhi," PM Modi, who also hosted dinner for the Afghan leader, tweeted. Indian media reported that the two leaders discussed strategic bilateral ties, including India's development assistance as well as...
National Security Advisor (NSA) Mohammad Hanif Atmar discussed implementation of executive political cooperation framework with his United States counterpart yesterday. A press release from National Security Council (NSC) stated that Atmar discussed the implementation of executive political cooperation framework with his US counterpart, McMaster during a video conference. The statement added that the two sides also talked about security and political situation in the region,...