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By Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Dozens of people were killed in the northeastern Kunduz province of Afghanistan as an explosion struck a mosque shortly after the Friday prayers. Taliban’s interim government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said a total of 33 people, including children, were killed and 43 others were wounded by the blast […]

22nd Apr 2022

Afghanistan: Bombing in mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif leaves dozens dead & wounded

By Abdul Adil London, (The Muslim News): On Thursday, a blast in Si-Dukan Mosque left dozens of Shia Muslim worshipers dead and wounded, according to eyewitnesses. 400 worshipers attended the mosque during holy month of Ramadan. The head of the provincial department of security, Mohammad Asif Waziri, confirming 10 deaths and 15 people wounded […]

9th Oct 2021

Afghanistan: Mosque blast during Friday prayers kills 55, injures 143 Hazara Muslims

By S.K. Khan and Ahmet Gencturk ISLAMABAD, Pakistan/ANKARA, Turkey (AA): A suicide bomb attack on worshippers at a Shia Muslim mosque in the Afghan city of Kunduz killed at least 55 people, injured 143 others on Friday, officials said. Witnesses told Anadolu Agency that the blast rocked the Seyedabad Grand Mosque at around 1.30 […]

9th Aug 2021

Afghanistan: Taliban roadside bomb kills 12 members of family

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 12 members of a family who were fleeing the raging war in Afghanistan were killed by a landmine blast in the eastern Paktia province, local police confirmed on Sunday as Taliban on the same day said it seized Taluqan, the capital city of northern Takhar […]

8th Oct 2015

Afghanistan: Obama apologises to aid group for deadly airstrike

WASHINGTON (AA) : President Barack Obama apologized to Doctors Without Borders International President Joanne Liu during a phone call Wednesday morning, following a deadly strike on one of the group’s medical facilities in Afghanistan. Obama “assured Dr. Liu that the Department of Defense investigation currently underway would provide a transparent, thorough and objective accounting of the […]

6th Oct 2015

Afghanistan: US Gen shifts hospital bombing blame to Afghans

WASHINGTON (AA): Deadly U.S. airstrikes on a medical clinic in northern Afghanistan were not requested by U.S forces but by Afghan troops under a Taliban attack, a top U.S. general said Monday. “We have now learned that on Oct. 3, Afghan forces advised that they were taking fire from enemy positions and asked for air support from […]

5th Oct 2015

Afghanistan: US Kunduz hospital bombing deaths increase to 22

ANKARA (AA): The death toll from Saturday’s bombing of a hospital in northern Afghanistan has risen to 22, operator Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Sunday. “It is 12 MSF staff members and 10 patients, including three children, who were killed in the attack,” MSF General Director Christopher Stokes, said. On Saturday, MSF had said that at […]

4th Oct 2015

Afghanistan: US airstrikes on hospital kills 19, incl 3 children, in Kunduz

KABUL/NEW YORK (AA): US airstrikes in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on hospital killed 19 and wounded 37 people early Saturday morning, Afghan health officials said. Although the country’s interior ministry said Taliban militants were targeted, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said at least 12 of its workers and seven patients died, including three children, and 37 people injured, in the […]

3rd Oct 2015

Afghanistan: US airstrike on hospital kills 9, injures dozens

By Zabihullah Tamanna JALALABAD, (AA): An Afghan health official has said a U.S. air strike on a hospital early Saturday morning in northern Kunduz city has killed and wounded dozens of people. Although the country’s interior ministry said Taliban militants were targeted, Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) said nine of its workers died and 19 seriously […]

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 […]

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