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By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, (AA): At least 24 Afghans, mostly security personnel, were killed and over 90 others were wounded in two suicide blasts at the Ministry of Defense in the heart of the capital Kabul on Monday, according to the Ministry of Public Health. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which […]

25th Aug 2016

Afghanistan: Terrorists kill 13 at American University of Afghanistan

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL (AA): A deadly 10-hour assault on the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF) in Kabul ended early on Thursday leaving at least 13 people dead, including seven young students. A group of Taliban militants stormed the AUAF campus Wednesday evening. Located on a busy street in the western part of […]

24th Jul 2016

Afghanistan: 80 Hazara Shia Muslims killed in suicide bombing in Kabul

The Muslim News: Afghanistan is in mourning Sunday in the aftermath of killing of 80 Hazara Shia Muslims Saturday. Thousands of mainly young Hazaras were demonstrating peacefully in Kabul. More than 231 people were injured. Daesh has claimed responsibility for the kiling of innocent Muslims. “Two fighters from Islamic State detonated explosive belts at a […]

25th May 2016

Afghanistan: 10 killed in suicide bomb attack

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL (AA & AP): At least 10 people were killed and three others were wounded on Wednesday morning after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives on the outskirts of Afghanistan’s capital Kabul, security officials said.The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack. The claim came from Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, in […]

15th May 2016

Afghanistan: Taliban car-bomb kills four in Helmand

By Zabihullalh Tamanna KABUL (AA) – At least four people were killed Saturday in a suicide car-bomb attack in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province that was later claimed by the Taliban, according to a local official. Provincial Police Chief Abdul Rahman Sarjang told Anadolu Agency that the attacker had detonated his explosive-laden vehicle near a […]

9th May 2016

Pakistan: Taliban kill prominent rights activist in Karachi

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, (AA): The Taliban have claimed responsibility for killing prominent blogger and rights activist Khurram Zaki, who was gunned down in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi late Saturday night. He was killed just after he had twitted on Sadiq Khan, MP, winning the London Mayor elections: Khurram Zaki ‏@intaffairs May 7 […]

28th Feb 2016

Afghanistan: Twin suicide blasts in Kabul kill 23

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL, (AA): At least nine people were killed and another 13 wounded on Saturday when a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of the Afghan Defense Ministry, Afghan authorities have said. The Taliban militant group claimed responsibility for the bombing, asserting that at least 23 officers had been […]

22nd Dec 2015

Afghanistan: 6 NATO service members killed

WASHINGTON /KABUL (AA): At least six NATO-led coalition troops were killed as a result of suicide car bombing near Bagram airfield, the biggest U.S. base in Afghanistan on Monday afternoon as the security situation has deteriorated in other parts of the country. The suicide attack took place early afternoon in Bagram district, Parwan province, some 60 km […]

12th Dec 2015

Afghanistan: Suicide bombers attack Spanish embassy kills six

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL, (AA, ): A large explosion rocked Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Friday evening, police said. Six people were killed and many injured in the attacks. Officials said the attackers reportedly targeted the Spanish embassy and had entered a building near the compound. “Kabul police are at the site of the explosion,” Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for […]

27th Nov 2015

Pakistan: Federal minister survives attack in NW Pakistan

KARACHI, (AA) – A roadside bomb that targeted a federal minister killed two policemen and injured three others — while leaving the minister unharmed — in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday, local officials said. The attack occurred in Federal Minster Akram Khan Durrani’s hometown of Bannu, located some 250 kilometers from capital Islamabad, Kamran Zeb, Bannu commissioner, […]

16th Nov 2015

Afghanistan: US drone strike kills 12 people in E Afghanistan

KABUL, (AA): At least 12 militants, including nine foreign nationals, were killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, Afghan officials said Sunday. A spokesman for Provincial Governor Ahmad Zai Abdulzai told Anadolu Agency that the drone had targeted a militant concentration in Nangarhar’s Khogiani district on Saturday night, killing a dozen […]

9th Nov 2015

Afghanistan: 25 Daesh fighters killed in E Afghanistan

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL, (AA): At least 25 fighters affiliated with the Daesh militant group were killed Saturday night in an operation carried out by Afghan security forces in the eastern Nangarhar province, Afghan officials said Monday. The operation was conducted in Nangarhar’s Achin district and surrounding areas, where Daesh militants, according to provincial […]

28th Oct 2015

UK to keep soldiers in Afghanistan in 2016

LONDON (AA): Britain has decided not to withdraw its soldiers from Afghanistan in order to bolster the country’s security forces fighting the Taliban, said the U.K. defense secretary. Michael Fallon said it would take time for the Afghan military to develop into “a fully-fledged fighting force capable of providing complete security for the people of […]

1st Oct 2015

Afghanistan: Taliban tighten grip on Kunduz

KABUL, (AA): Taliban militants, seizing a border district in Kunduz, marched toward Tajikistan border on Wednesday evening as U.S.-led coalition forces deployed limited ground troops to support Afghan security forces. Taliban retained control of Imam Saheb district late Wednesday after Afghan security forces backed by international troops failed to retake Kunduz city, which fell to Taliban […]

29th Sep 2015

Afghanistan: Taliban, Afghan forces battle for control of Kunduz city

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL, (AA): Hundreds of Taliban militants launched a large-scale attack on Kunduz city, the capital of northern Kunduz province, early Monday morning and now appear to have wrestled control of the city from government forces, local Afghan media said. According to Nasratullah Ibrahimi, a local journalist reporting from inside Kunduz […]

8th Sep 2015

Afghanistan: NATO airstrike ‘kills 11 police’

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL, (AA): Eleven Afghan police officers were killed in a NATO airstrike Sunday evening, local officials said Monday. The attack in Helmand, the restive southern province that has seen fierce fighting between the Taliban and government forces in recent weeks, killed anti-narcotics officers, according to Mahdi Kazimi, a spokesman for the […]

23rd Aug 2015

Afghanistan: Taliban deny responsibility in Kabul suicide bombing killing 12

KABUL, (AA): The Taliban militant group have denied their involvement in Saturday’s deadly suicide car bomb attack that targeted a NATO contractors convoy in the Afghan capital of Kabul. The blast, which took place on a busy road near a private hospital, a kilometer from the U.S. embassy, rocked a crowded residential area with many […]

21st Aug 2015

Pakistan: 11 killed in clashes in South Waziristan

By Aamir Latif Karachi, (AA): Ten suspected Taliban and a soldier have been killed in a clash in restless South Waziristan tribal area, a former headquarters of Pakistani Taliban, raising the total number of militant casualties in the region to 53 on Thursday, officials said. A security official who wished not to be quoted told […]

3rd Aug 2015

Afghanistan: Clash between Afghan Taliban fighters leaves nine dead

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL, (AA): Fighting between two groups of Taliban in northern Afghanistan on Sunday left at least nine dead in the first possible sign of division among the organization’s rank-and-file following news of Mullah Muhammed Omar’s death. A group of ethnic Uzbek fighters clashed with a Pashtun group in Qaisar, Faryab province, when […]

1st Jun 2015

Afghanistan: 19 injured by Taliban attack on police station

[File photo: Afghan soldiers hand out supplies to Afghans who had been evicted from their villages by Taliban. US army photo] JALALABAD, (Xinhua) : Three Taliban militants were killed while 19 people wounded after militants attacked a police station in Jalalabad city, capital of eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar overnight Sunday, an official source said on […]

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