LOGAR (The Killid) – At least 22 Taliban insurgents, including four of their key members, killed during an operation by Afghan forces’ special unit Monday night at Kamal Khail village of Mohammad Agha district in Logar province, Ministry of Interior Affairs said in a statement.
According to the statement, the key members are Qudratullah, Taliban military trainer; Naimatuallah, Head of the group targeting...
BALKH (The Killid) – Officials at provincial branch of Abu Ali Sini hospital reported some 20 children dead, as summer heat waves intensity over recent months.
Officials said intense heat has scorched the province for more than 30 consecutive days, breeding seasonal diseases among children.
On a daily basis, some 400 patients were being landed at Abu Ali Sina hospital, of which 100 with serious...
LOGAR (The Killid) – Afghan security forces discovered and seized some 90 arms of different sorts from Logar province, the Ministry of Defense said in a statement.
According to the statement released Tuesday, Afghan commandos discovered some 90 arms, including 83 Kalashnikovs and seven guns, during an operation at Begum village of Kharwar district.
Meanwhile, officials arrested at least two suspects, as they also...
Pakistan opened its airspace for all civilian traffic on Tuesday morning, removing the ban on Afghan flights that were not allowed to use its airspace for Kabul-New Delhi and Kabul-Mumbai flights, the Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement on Tuesday.
Pakistan had earlier said it would not open its airspace for commercial flights until India removed its fighter jets from forward Indian airbases.
In...
KABUL (The Killid) – Afghan security officials reported a mine blast at PD12 of the Afghan capital, with no casualties behind.
Ferdous Faramarz, Spokesman for the Kabul police, told The Killid, “around 6am today (Tuesday), one roadside mine at Arzan Qimat of PD12 in Kabul went off.”
The explosion did not inflict any casualties, he added.
Meanwhile, the Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, saying...
Former Iraqi Minister Baqer Jabr al-Zubeidi said ISIL ringleader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is hiding in Libya and continues to command terrorist operations from the African country.
Al-Zubeidi told the Arabic-language Baghdad Post news website that al-Baghdadi is presently in Libya coordinating ISIL's terrorist operations throughout the Middle-East.
He noted that the ISIL is trying to take control of some regions in the African continent covering...
FARYAB (The Killid) – At least 13 anti-government armed members were killed and further 13, including 6 Uzbekistan nationals, were injured during clashes with Afghan security forces Tuesday in Pashtoon Kut and Dowlat Abad districts of the province, local authorities said.
Mohammad Hanif Razae, Spokesman for the 209th Shaheen Corps, told The Killid, “at 2:30am today (Tuesday) Afghan security forces and Taliban insurgents...
KABUL (The Killid) – The Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah of the National Unity Government warns repeating 2014 presidential elections will be a disaster, for which Afghan people cannot compensate.
Abdullah speaking at a gathering on women's awareness raising conference to participate in the presidential elections, with emphasizes it should not be traded with people's votes, said “People will decide as to who has sacrificed...
BALKH (The Killid) – At least 87 anti-government militant group members, including 22 of their key commanders, have been killed during several military operations carried by the 207th Shaheen Corps in a number of districts in Northern province, north officials said.
Further 77 militants wounded, including 17 team leaders of the group.
Mohammad Hanif Razae, Spokesman for the 209th Shaheen Corps, told The Killid, “these...
