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By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): A massive car bombing in the southeast of Afghanistan targeting a local security officer killed at least four people, an official and local media confirmed on Sunday after a spate of terrorist attacks across the country in the last one week. The incident took place in Gardez city, […]

20th Jul 2019

Afghanistan: 8 killed, 30 injured by IED at university

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): An IED blast inches away from the main entrance of Kabul University in the Afghan capital on Friday morning killed eight people and injured more than 30, officials confirmed. The IED, placed in a car parked next to the southern entrance of the university, went off with […]

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, […]

2nd Jul 2019

Afghanistan: 10 killed as huge explosion rocks Kabul

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 10 people were killed and 65 more injured in a suicide bombing followed by a gunfight at a Defense Ministry installation in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday, officials and local media confirmed. According to the Government Media Information Centre in Kabul, the attack took […]

14th Jun 2019

Afghanistan: 8 killed, incl children, in suicide attack

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least eight people were killed in a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, an official confirmed. Governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told Anadolu Agency the bombing took place in the family area of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province. He confirmed an Afghan local police mini-truck was attacked, […]

21st May 2019

Afghanistan: Airstrikes kill 5 civilians in Helmand

[Archive photo: US bombing in Kunduz wounded many Afghanis being treated in Mazar-e-Sharif Regional Hospital in Balkh, Afghanistan on 4 October 2015. Photographer: Syed Khodaberdi Sadat/AA] Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Airstrikes killed five civilians in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province, officials and local media confirmed Monday. Residents of Taliban-held parts of the province staged […]

7th May 2019

Afghanistan: Taliban attack kills 25 soldiers in Farah province

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): A Taliban attack killed 25 soldiers in western Afghanistan, an official confirmed on Monday. Defying Afghan government’s calls for truce during the holy month of Ramadan, the Taliban assaulted a military check post in the western Farah province bordering Iran. Shah Mehmood Naimi, deputy chairman of the […]

29th Apr 2019

Afghanistan: Eight police killed in Taliban attack

By Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat KABUL, Afghanistan (AA) – A Taliban attack on police station Sunday killed eight police and left five others wounded in western Ghor province of Afghanistan, according to local officials. Speaking to the press, Habibuhlah Radmanish, the deputy governor of Ghor province said eight police were killed and five others wounded […]

10th Apr 2019

Afghanistan: 3 US military personnel killed by Taliban

By Umar Farooq and Shadi Khan Saif WASHINGTON (AA): Three U.S. service members were killed and three more injured in a Taliban-claimed suicide car bombing on Monday near a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, officials confirmed. The wounded were evacuated and are currently receiving medical care, said the Pentagon. On the fallen soldiers, Gen. […]

25th Mar 2019

Afghans protest civilian deaths in alleged US air raid

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Carrying dead bodies, residents of Afghanistan’s Kunduz province on Saturday protested a deadly air raid in the war-ravaged country allegedly committed but denied by U.S. forces. Accusing the the Taliban of deliberately hiding among civilians and spreading propaganda to hide their losses, the U.S. Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) has […]

25th Feb 2019

Afghanistan: Highest civilian casualties in 2018

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): The UN on Sunday said it has documented nearly 11,000 civilian casualties across Afghanistan in 2018, the highest ever figure in the war-torn nation. A total of 10,993 civilian casualties, including 3,804 deaths and 7,189 injured, were reporter across the country in 2018, said the report released by […]

6th Feb 2019

Afghanistan: 58 die in fresh clashes between Taliban, Afghan forces

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL (AA): At least 36 members of the Afghan security forces and 22 Taliban terrorists have been killed in fresh clashes in the country’s north, officials and local media confirmed Tuesday. The renewed fighting coincides with a two-day round of peace talks now underway in Moscow between Taliban representatives and several […]

4th Feb 2019

Afghanistan bleeds with 1,700 casualties in January

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Afghanistan saw a bloody start to the new year with over 1,700 war-related casualties in January alone. Figures compiled by Anadolu Agency suggest more than 900 people were killed and at least 800 others were injured across Afghanistan in terrorist attacks and security operations. The casualties include […]

25th Jan 2019

Afghanistan: US airstrike kills scores of civilians

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 16 members of a single family have been killed in an airstrike by U.S. forces in Afghanistan’s restive Helmand province, officials and local media confirmed late Thursday. Helmand Governor Mohammad Yasin Khan has condemned the strike and has called for an investigation. Meanwhile, the local […]

22nd Jan 2019

Afghanistan: Death toll rises to over 120 in suicide car bomb

By Shadi Khan Saif and Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): The death toll in a suicide car bomb attack in central Maidan Wardak province has risen to 120, an official said on Monday. Sharifullah Hotak, a member of the Maidan Wardak provincial council, told local media the death toll — which includes personnel […]

15th Jan 2019

Afghanistan: Truck bombing kills 4, injures 113 in Kabul

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA):- At least four people were killed and 113 more wounded as a massive truck bombing jolted the Afghan capital on Monday, an official confirmed. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for the attack. Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish told Anadolu Agency security forces have reached the site where […]

11th Jan 2019

Afghanistan: Taliban attacks kill over 40 troops

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 40 Afghan troops were killed on Thursday in separate Taliban attacks in six different northern and western provinces, local officials said. Mohammad Jawad Hijri, spokesman of the Takhar governor’s office, told reporters that the Taliban attacked a police station in Khwaja Ghar district killing seven […]

8th Jan 2019

Afghanistan: US airstrikes kill 4 civilians

By Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): U.S. airstrikes killed at least 4 civilians in Afghanistan on Monday, a local said. Army regiment spokesman Mohamed Hanif Rezai told Anadolu Agency that the NATO-led U.S. drone strike targeted a Taliban camp in the Kurgan district of northern Faryab province. Rezai said 14 militants were killed […]

25th Dec 2018

Afghanistan: Attack on Govt compound kills 43

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL (AA): Gunmen stormed a government building in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday and killed 43 people in a standoff with security forces lasting some eight hours. One police officer was among those killed, while at least 20 other people were wounded, according to the Afghan Health Ministry. The […]

1st Dec 2018

US drops nearly 6000 bombs in Afghanistan in 2018

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA):In what appears to be statistical proof of evident upsurge in the Afghan war, the US announced to have dropped close to 6000 bombs in Afghanistan this year so far. According to the figures by the US Air Force Central Command (AFCENT), the US forces released 5,982 munitions […]

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