GHAZNI (The Killid Group) – At least six Afghan National Army members Killed and three Afghan National Police wounded during a battle with the armed Taliban in Qara Bagh of southeastern province, local authorities confirmed. Mohammad Arif Noori, spokesman for Ghazni Governor, told The Killid the forces were on a curfew duty Sunday night in Khonyan area, where they faced ambush attack by...
PARWAN (The Killid Group) – The Salang Highway faced an immediate closure after seasonal downpours flooded in Jab ul-Saraj district of the central province, local authorities confirmed. Wahida Shahkar, spokesman for Parwan Governor, told The Killid floods mostly hit Gulbahar and some surrounding areas of the district, and there is no details yet on number of casualties or victims inflicted by the flood. Due...
KABUL (The Killid Group) – Untied States Special Envoy Zalmay Khalilzad met with President Ashraf Ghani in the Afghan capital Kabul, in an attempt to brief him on the latest round of talks with the Taliban in Doha, Qatar. Ghani spokesman Sediq Sediqqi confirmed the meeting took place Sunday night at the Presidential Palace shortly after Khalilzad arrived from Qatar, where the ninth...
LAGHMAN (The Killid Group) – At least five civilians killed and further six wounded, after a mortal shell hit a residence in Alisheng district of Laghman, local authorities said. Asadullah Dowlatzay, spokesman for the Laghman Governor, told The Killid around 7pm Sunday, the Taliban shot a shell that hit a residence in Alisheng district, killing at least five and wounded six further. The victims...
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On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, a private company logged at least 24 trees on a street in Afghan capital, without a legal consent, which lead the Kabul Municipality to impose a heavy fine worth of 6.6 million Afghanis, and introduced the company to judicial organs for further actions. Mohammad ul-Din, who has worked for the Municipality for ten years, said, “when I came in...
KUNDUZ (The Killid Group) – At least 25 Afghan security forces, including five civilians, killed during a 24-hour battle in Northern province of Kunduz, after the Taliban carried attack, the Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a statement Sunday. Further 80 people, mostly civilians, were landed in hospitals for special care. The group raided from three different directions at around 1:30am on Saturday, surrounding...
Greece is to step up border patrols, move asylum-seekers from its islands to the mainland and speed up deportations in an effort to deal with a resurgence in migrant flows from neighboring Turkey. On Saturday, the government said it would move asylum-seekers to mainland facilities, increase border surveillance together with the European Union’s border patrol agency Frontex and NATO, and boost police patrols across...
URUZGAN (The Killid Group) – At least two children are confirmed dead after suffering poliovirus in southern province of Uruzgan, health officials said. Saifuddin Hamnawa, a polio vaccine program official, told The Killid two cases of polio have been registered at the health facilities on Saturday in two different locations of the province. In first case, a six-year-old child is confirmed dead, after bearing...
BAGHLAN (The Killid Group) – Afghan National Defense Security Forces rebuffed the Taliban attack in Pul-e-Khumri city, the center of the northern province of Baghlan, local authorities said in a statement. Ahmad Jawed Bisharat, Spokesman for the Baghlan police, told The Killid that Taliban launched an attack Sunday morning from Kar Kar area, but was warded off by the Afghan security forces, as...