An IED placed inside a flower pot went off Wednesday morning in the second district of Jalalabad city, said Hamid Rushan, deputy spokesman for Afghan Ministry of Interior. At least two people, both civilians, were killed and 18 others wounded in the explosion, he said. Four people were in critical health condition, according to the spokesman. Afghan officials blame Taliban to be responsible for the attack....
According to Afghan health ministry, as many as two more patients have died after contracting the disease, pushing the toll of fatalities to 2,512. Also, as many as 94 new cases of infection were reported in the country, bringing the nationwide case count to 56,873. The new infection cases were registered in Kabul, Herat, Kandahar, Balkh Nangarhar, Paktia, Ghazni, Nimroz, Helmand, Maidan Wardak, Laghman and...
Armed Taliban on Monday evening attacked on people attending the funeral of Malik Afghan, CHA office’s former head, in Farah city outskirts, Shah Mahmoud Naeemi, member of the provincial council told TKG. According to the source, bodyguard of Mr. Afghan’s son was killed and eight others wounded in the attack. The Taliban officials have not commented yet. Farah, a province in western part...
According to provincial police spokesman, Ferdaws Faramarz, a police vehicle came under unknown armed men’s attack around 8:50am Tuesday. The attack took place in Chawk-e Arghandi area in Paghman district of the capital, Kabul, killing one policeman and injuring another. A police investigation was underway, the spokesman said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. ...
In a statement, Nangarhar’s provincial media outlets, said Afghan forces carried out an overnight attack on Taliban fighters in Nakarkhel area of Khogyani district. According to the statement, at least nine militants were killed and another four injured. Two Afghan soldiers were lightly wounded during the raid. The Taliban officials have yet to comment. ...
Afghan forces on Tuesday morning found and defused a sticky bomb in front of a house in Kart-e 3 area, sixth district of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, provincial police said. There was no claim of responsibility for the plot. Afghanistan, already gripped by decades-long war and violence, has been witnessing a rise in bomb attacks. The attacks, often without claim of responsibility, claims lives of civilians mostly. There...
A soldier named Zakir, employed at Torkham Commission, was torturing an Afghan resident, triggering people’s outcry. The soldier has been arrested, said Tariq Arian, spokesman for Ministry of Interior, and was under questioning. The ministry’s spokesman called it unacceptable. It comes as months ago, a police officer in the Torkham commission was dismissed from job after a video of him torturing women were published on social...
A police vehicle was targeted by an explosion Monday morning around 7:00 [local time] in Sabz Sang area of Qara Bagh district in Afghan capital of Kabul, provincial police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said. A member of security forces was killed and four others wounded in the attack, according to the spokesman. Mr. Faramarz added that another IED was found and defused in the area. Similarly in...
In a statement released Sunday, the Afghan Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar met with Oguzhan Ertugrul, Turkey’s Ambassador to Kabul and discussed the date, agenda, negotiation teams, the participants as well as the expecting outcomes of the upcoming Turkey-hosted peace conference on Afghanistan. It comes as Ghani’s government has established a committee under Mohammad Younus Qanoni’s leadership to present a...
Faizullah and Hazratqul, residents of Faryab’s Pashtunkot district have been arrested in a counterterrorism operation in Maimana city, the provincial capital, said police spokesman Karim Yourish. The arrested men were involved in communications as well as transferring and placing IEDs, the spokesman added. The suspects confessed during the intial questioning. There was no comment from the Taliban yet. ...