Provincial media office in a statement said that new police chief of the province has pledged to reduce crime and ensure security in the province. Meanwhile, Sanaiee Stanikzai, former police chief of the province, has urged residents to assist the new chief of police in ensuring security. Mr. Sadat has worked in key Ministry of Interior’s posts in several provinces. The new appointment comes as the...
As many as 41 more patients have died after contracting the disease caused by the coronavirus, pushing the toll of fatalities to 3,145, health ministry’s data showed. Also, as many as 1,273 new cases of infection were reported in the country, according to health ministry’s data, bringing the nationwide case count to 79,236. As many as 140 patients recovered from the disease in the past...
According to sources who spoke with TKG on condition of anonymity, all security personnel have evacuated the district as tribal leaders mediated and now the district was under the Taliban control. The government failed to provide on-time support and assistance, sources said, and thus, the district fell to Taliban. Taliban officials have also confirmed capture of the district. Zabihullah Mujahed, a spokesman for the group, has...
According to Khost police spokesman, Najib Ahmad Najib, the first attack took place in Sabrai district on Saturday morning around 9:00 local time. Three students were shot and killed as they were on way to Khost city. A woman wounded in the assault, the spokesman said. It wasn’t clear who killed the students, according to him, and police investigations were underway. Elsewhere, armed men attacked a...
Armed Taliban on Friday evening stormed army outposts in Qadis district of Badghis province, Hassibullah Masood Akhundzada, an army commander said. According to him, five Taliban fighters, including Bai Jan, commander of the group’s Special Forces known as Red Unit were killed as clashes erupted between government forces and the fighters. Another six members of the group were injured in clashes, Mr. Akhundzada said. A government...
The U.S. total humanitarian aid for Afghanistan has now risen to nearly $3.9 billion since 2002. "This assistance from the American people will help our international humanitarian partners provide support to some of the estimated 18 million people in need in Afghanistan, including more than 4.8 million Afghans internally displaced,” Mr. Blinken said in the statement. “As the United States withdraws military forces from Afghanistan,...
Foreign Minister leading a high-ranking delegation has departed for Herat to attend a joint conference with his Turkmen counterpart Raşit Meredow, said Foreign Ministry deputy spokesman Hamid Tahzib. In the conference, both will exchange views on expansion of projects related to infrastructure, trade, transport as well as the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan (TAP) power project and the TAPI gas pipeline project between the three countries and India,...
A statement released by NDS 02 read that Special Forces carried out overnight operations in Jalalabad city, provincial capital of Nangarhar. According to the statement, Nasibullah, involved in group’s major attacks and Mohammad Nabi, its finance officer, were arrested during the operations. Nasibullah, as the statement read, had planned and carried out attacks in Jalalabad city and other districts of the province. There was no comment...
As many as 20 Taliban fighters were killed and eight others wounded in Afghan forces air raids on Friday, June 4, said Qadir Bahadurzai, spokesman for the army in the south. He confirmed civilian casualties without mentioning the number. The civilians were targeted as they were looting a military base, he added. Meanwhile, head of provincial council Attaullah Afghan also confirmed civilian and Taliban casualties in...
Kababyani was killed today morning in Kababyan area in Enjil district of Herat province while he was on way from mosque to home, said provincial police spokesman Ahad Walizada. Efforts had begun to hunt down the perpetrators and arrest them, the spokesman added. Arif Jalali, chief physician in Herat regional hospital, meanwhile, said that the victim was taken to hospital while sustaining injuries but lost...