According to a statement released Monday by the Independent Directorate of Local Governance (IDLG), Mr. Rasikh takes the post to answer demands of the province’s residents and solve their problems.
Following Dawood Laghmani’s appointment as the province’s new governor, residents of Faryab took to streets, protesting against his hire.
A week and a half earlier, on May 17, Dawood Mohammad Dawood Laghmani officially took office...
Officials in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade will instead visit Afghanistan from other residential posts in the region.
"It is Australia's expectation that this measure will be temporary and that we will resume a permanent presence in Kabul once circumstances permit," Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Tuesday.
"This form of diplomatic representation is common practice around the world. It does not...
Afghan commando forces on Monday night set free at least 41 prisoners, including 19 military personnel, who were held as captives in a Taliban custody in Pashtun Zarghon district of the province.
According to the sources, seven Taliban fighters were killed and a number of weapons seized by government forces during the overnight operations.
Six motorbikes belonging to the militants were set on fire.
There was...
Police was chasing a robber in the third district of Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Monday morning, said Ferdaws Faramarz, a spokesman for the provincial police chief.
The robber clashed with police while the police forces were trying to arrest him, according to the spokesman.
A civilian was wounded in exchange of fire, he added, and was taken to hospital.
The incident was under police investigations.
The...
Nangarhar police chief spokesman, Farid Khan, confirmed a roadside bomb struck an army vehicle in the eighth district of Jalalabad city on Monday morning around 9:00 local time.
The bomb attack injured two army soldiers, according to the spokesman, who added the car was destroyed.
There was no claim of responsibility.
Bomb attacks have recently soared in the country already torn by decades long war....
On Sunday, a car, Fielder type, ran off the road in Ab Band district of the province, said Wahidullah Jumazada, provincial governor spokesman.
A woman was killed and two other women and a man were wounded in the accident, he said.
The people were residents of Moqor district of Ghazni province, according to the spokesman, who added the wounded were taken to hospital for treatment.
Drivers’...
A woman, wearing explosives, wanted to attack on the headquarters of Qaisar police chief in Afghanistan’s northern Faryab province, said Tariq Arian, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior.
Afghan forces identified and killed her before she could manage to blow up herself, Mr. Arian said.
Also, three militants said to have belonged to the Taliban were killed and another three wounded, according to the spokesman.
Afghan...
The Taliban attacks were thwarted as Afghan Special Forces arrived in the province, inflicting heavy casualties to the group fighters, acting defense minister Yasin Zia who led the fighting last night said.
There was no security threats in Mehtarlam city, the provincial capital of Laghman, according to the minister, and Afghan forces’ operations were underway to clear off the province from the Taliban.
Taliban militants...
Saifurrahman Safi, head of Sayed Khel district’s council of Ulema (religious clerics) came under unknown men’s attack in Jabal Siraj district on Saturday morning around 8:00 local time, said Sayed Khel’s district governor Ahmad Omar Osmanyar.
Safi’s son was injured in the attack, according to the district governor.
Saleem Noori, spokesman for Parwan’s police chief, also confirmed the attack, saying he was killed when he...
