At least twenty Taliban fighters have been killed in Afghan forces raids in Arghandab district of the southern Kandahar province, the Ministry of Defense said. A number of weapons were also seized from the militants, it said. The Taliban officials have not commented yet....
Three women working at dubbing department of the Inikaas television network were killed Tuesday evening in two separate but coordinated attacks in Jalalabad city. Jumagul Hemat, provincial police chief, said a man named Qari Basir, member of the Taliban group was the main suspect behind yesterday’s attack. He was arrested with a pistol and a rickshaw with himself. Another two people were wounded in Tuesday’s...
Mawlawi Faiz Mohammad Faiez, the former head of Kunduz’s Council of Ulema was killed after armed men opened fire at him Wednesday morning around 6:00 local time, provincial police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz confirmed. The spokesman added that efforts were underway to identify and arrest the perpetrators. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the murder. The attack follows the assassination of three Afghan female media...
Afghan commando forces on Tuesday night set free at least 34 prisoners, including 27 military personnel and seven civilians, who were held in a Taliban custody in Karocha area of Adraskan district, said Fawad Aman, the ministry’s deputy spokesperson. There were 11 army soldiers, seven policemen, three Air Force members, five project employees and seven civilians who were government workers among the released prisoners. One...
Witnesses have said a gunman shot and killed two female employees of Inikaas TV near Jalalabad city’s first district. Another female worker was killed near the fourth district of the city, according to witnesses. The armed men managed to flee the area. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. It was the second attack on female journalists working for Inikaas TV network in Afghanistan’s...
Unidentified armed men abducted the children from their boarding school in Jangebe, Zamfara state, last week and taken to a forest, police said. The state's governor said on Tuesday the girls had been freed and were safe. Such kidnappings are carried out for ransom and are common in the north. However, no ransom had been paid for their release, according to media reports. The state governor,...
Following his meetings with Afghan leaders, Ambassador Khalilzad met with jihadi leader Abdul Rab Rasool Sayyaf and former Finance Minister Omar Zakhelwal. He has also met with Mohammad Muhaqiq, Leader of People's Islamic Unity party of Afghanistan and Mohammad Karim Khalili, former Vice President and Leader of the Hezb-e-Wahdat-e Islami party of Afghanistan. Earlier on Monday, he met with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and the...
In a statement released Tuesday, the provincial media outlets said at least 11 Taliban militants were killed and another four wounded in Shirzad and Hesarak districts of Nangarhar province. A number of weapons were also seized from the militants, according to the statement. The Taliban group has yet to comment....
Dawa Khan Meenapal, a president’s spokesperson, tweeted Monday that President Ghani signed a letter dismissing Attorney General Hamidi from his post. According to the spokesman, the Afghan Attorney General resigned for personal- and family-related issues. President’s spokesman did not elaborate who would replace him. Sources, however, have said Alam Stanikzai has been appointed as new attorney general. Four years ago, Afghanistan’s Lower House of Parliament passed a...
According to a statement released by President’s office on Monday, both held talks on Afghanistan’s peace process and accelerating it. The U.S. envoy reaffirmed the role of the United States in bringing peace to Afghanistan. He had also met with former President Hamid Karzai on Monday afternoon. The office of Mr. Karzai said in a statement the former president said in the meeting that Afghan people’s...