The brother of Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada was killed in a blast at a mosque in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province on Friday, media reports said. Foreign media outlets quoted Taliban sources as saying Hafiz Ahmadullah, the younger brother of the Taliban leader, was among four people killed in the blast on the outskirts
Nine people were injured in a bomb blast that took place outside a home in this capital city of eastern Nangarhar province late Friday, the governor’s house said in a statement. The statement said the blast occurred in front of a home in Karez Kabir area of Jalalabad at around 8pm. Zahir Adil, the provincial
Only a tangle of razor wire marks the entrance of a remote Afghan army checkpoint that may soon be shuttered as the government closes vulnerable outposts after years of losses to Taliban fighters and desertions. The post in Wardak province west of Kabul has been hit before, and its sagging blast walls and teetering sandbags
Dozens of people were wounded with fatalities feared as a powerful car bomb rocked Kabul early on Monday and gunmen battled special forces in an area housing military and government buildings, officials said. The rush-hour explosion sent a plume of smoke into the air above the Puli Mahmood Khan neighbourhood of the Afghan capital and
KABUL -- Kabul students picked through the debris of shattered schools on Tuesday (July 2) looking for books, backpacks and other possessions, a day after a massive bomb ripped through the Afghan capital. Five schools were damaged in a Taliban attack Monday (July 1) that targeted a Defence Ministry building but also shredded a mosque
HAZNI -- A Taliban car bomb in Ghazni on Sunday (July 7) killed at least 12 people and wounded many more -- including dozens of children -- in a massive blast. Sunday's suicide car bombing targeted an intelligence unit, Ghazni provincial governor's spokesman Mohammad Arif Noori told AFP. Twelve people were killed, said Wahidullah Mayar,
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Pentagon on Tuesday identified the two US service members killed in Afghanistan earlier this week. Pfc. Brandon Jay Kreischer, 20, of Stryker, Ohio, and Spc. Michael Isaiah Nance, 24, of Chicago died Monday from combat-related wounds, the Department of Defense said in a news release. Kandahar police told CNN on Monday
(Pajhwok): The Ministry of Industries and Commerce (MoIC) has signed the amended implementation agreement for the Afghan-German Cooperation’s programme for Sustainable Economic Development and Employment Promotion (SEDEP), a statement said on Tuesday. The amendment confirmed the programme’s continuation from January 2019 to June 2020 and accompanying funding of AFN 1,125,000,000. About 37,000 people will benefit.
(Pajhwok): One person was killed and two others were wounded as a result of magnetic bomb blast in southeastern Khost province on Tuesday, an official said. Police spokesman Adel Haidar told Pajhwok Afghan News the blast took place in the Speen Jumat area of Khost City, the provincial capital, at around 8am. He said the
(Pajhwok): At least 50 people were injured as a result of car bombing in 6th police district of Kabul on Wednesday morning, an official said. Nasrat Rahimi, spokesman for the Ministry of Interior (MoI), said that an explosives-packed vehicle targeted 6th police district center at around 9:30am. According to Rahimi, at least 50 injured were