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By Mehmet Alaca, Bilal Guler, Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat, and S. K. Khan KANDAHAR/KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): The death toll from a bomb blast that hit a Shia Muslim mosque in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province during Friday prayers rose to 47, according to local officials. The terrorist attack in the Taliban’s heartland was claimed by Islamic […]

13th Aug 2021

UK to send 600 paratroopers to evacuate Britons as Taliban capture 12 provincial capitals

By Hamed Chapman and Ahmed J Versi (The Muslim News): The UK announced Thursday that it would send 600 paratroopers to Afghanistan to evacuate around 4,000 Britons and 2,000 Afghan staff as Taliban moved to capture the country’s second largest city of Kandahar and Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand province. “I have authorised the deployment […]

9th Jul 2020

Afghanistan: 7 policemen killed, 20 injured in Taliban attacks

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least seven Afghan policemen were killed and 20 more injured in two separate attacks claimed by the Taliban on Wednesday. The deadlier of the two attacks was a suicide car bombing in the southern Kandahar province, which killed three policemen and injured 20 others. The blast […]

19th Jul 2019

Afghanistan: 9 dead, 60 injured in Kandahar car bombing

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): A massive suicide car bombing followed by gunfight at the police headquarters on Thursday killed at least nine people in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province, a hospital source said. Meanwhile, an explosion occurred outside the gates of Kabul University on Friday, killing four people and injuring 10 others, […]

1st May 2018

Afghanistan: Twin blasts kill 35, including 10 journalists in Kabul

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 35 people, including 10 journalists and cameramen, were killed and 45 others injured in two suspected suicide blasts during the morning rush hour in the capital Kabul Monday, according to police and health officials. Police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai told Anadolu Agency the first blast was […]

22nd May 2017

Afghanistan: 25 Afghan policemen killed as Taliban storms outposts

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Twenty-five national and local Afghan policemen were killed Sunday in coordinated Taliban attacks on their outposts in the southern Zabul province, officials confirmed. Situated between the restive Kandahar and Ghazni provinces, Zabul has been witnessing a surge in militancy of late. Bismillah Afghan Mal, the province’s governor, […]

12th Jan 2017

Afghanistan: 5 UAE staff among 11 killed in bombing

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, (AA): Eleven people, including five diplomats from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have been killed in a double bomb attack in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday. The attack late Tuesday targeted the governor’s compound during a visit by the UAE ambassador. Both the governor, Humayun Azizi, and Ambassador […]

18th Dec 2016

Afghanistan: 5 female airport staff killed in Kandahar

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, (AA): Gunmen killed five women who worked at the Kandahar International Airport in southern Afghanistan while they were en route to their workplace early Saturday morning, Afghan media quoting local officials said. The women were travelling in a van when at least three gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on […]

27th Sep 2016

Afghanistan: 5 injured as Taliban hits NATO vehicle

By Kasim Ileri WASHINGTON (AA): The Taliban blasted a NATO vehicle injuring five people, the Pentagon confirmed to Anadolu Agency on Sunday. “Four Romanian troops and an Afghan linguist, supporting the Resolute Support mission, suffered injuries when their vehicle hit an‎ improvised explosive device [IED] near Kandahar district, Kandahar province in the early morning […]

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The Muslim News Awards for Excellence 2015 was held on March in London to acknowledge British Muslim and non-Muslim contributions to the society.

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