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By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 14 people were killed and some 20 wounded in a suicide bomb attack targeting a gathering of religious scholars in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Monday, according to police. “Tight security was in place for the gathering of the Ulamas [religious scholars] in the Loya Jirga […]

21st May 2018

Afghanistan: Taliban attack on check posts kill 17 Afghan forces

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Taliban terrorists have stormed multiple check posts in the central Afghan province of Ghazni, killing at least 17 security personnel over the weekend, officials said. Mohammad Arif Noori, spokesman for the provincial governor, confirmed the killing of 17 security personnel and said up to 50 militants had […]

10th Mar 2018

Afghanistan: Suicide attack by Daesh targets Shia Muslim community in Kabul, kills 9

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least nine people were killed and more than 20 others injured in a suicide attack in capital Kabul on Friday, according to officials and local media reports. Nusrat Rahimi, deputy spokesman for Interior Ministry, told Anadolu Agency the suspected bomber detonated his explosives at a security barrier […]

27th Jan 2018

Afghanistan: Suicide car bombing in Kabul kills 17

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): A powerful suicide car bombing at the entrance of a government compound in the Afghan capital Kabul on Saturday killed 17 and injured over 100 people according to eyewitness and official accounts. The Taliban has claimed the terrorist attack. At around 12.50 p.m. local time (0820GMT), an […]

18th Dec 2017

Afghanistan: Taliban attacks kill 12 in Helmand Province

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Twelve people, including 11 policemen and a woman, were killed in two separate attacks in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials confirmed. Taliban gunmen stormed military posts in Lashkargah, provincial capital of Helmand province, late on Saturday killing 11 personnel of the Afghan National Police (ANP), said the […]

7th Nov 2017

Afghanistan: Bomb, gun attack on Afghan TV station, 2 killed

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): A small group of attackers killed at least two security guards in an attack on a TV station in capital Kabul on Tuesday, police said. The attack on the offices of broadcaster Shamshad began at around 10.45 a.m. local time (0615GMT), local media reported, when a suicide […]

18th Oct 2017

Afghanistan: Multiple gun-and-bomb attacks kill over 70

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): More than 70 people, including the provincial police chief were killed in multiple gun-and-bomb attacks in southeastern Paktia and central Ghazni provinces on Tuesday, officials said. The initial twin attack in Paktia took place when the militants attacked the regional police headquarters at around 9.00 a.m. local […]

25th Sep 2017

Afghanistan: 43 Taliban killed in US air raid in N Afghanistan

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Some 43 Taliban terrorists, including a top commander, have been killed in U.S. air raids in the northern Afghan province of Faryab bordering Uzbekistan, officials said on Sunday. Gen. Janat Gul, a commander of the Afghan National Army’s 209 Shaheen Corps, told journalists that a convoy of […]

30th Aug 2017

Afghanistan: US air strike kills 13 civilians in Herat province

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): A deadly U.S. air strike on suspected Taliban hideouts in the western Herat province of Afghanistan on Monday killed 13 civilians and 16 militants, officials confirmed on Tuesday. Jailani Farhad, spokesman for the provincial governor, informed Anadolu Agency that U.S. forces conducted an aerial raid on Taliban […]

29th Aug 2017

Afghanistan: Suicide car bomb kills 15 in Helmand province

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): At least 15 people were killed in a suicide car bombing aimed at the security forces’ convoy in the restive southwestern Helmand province, an official confirmed on Monday. The Afghan National Army (ANA) convoy was targeted in the province’s volatile Nawa district late on Sunday. Umar Zwak, […]

21st Aug 2017

Afghanistan: UN verifies mass killings in northern Afghanistan

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): The UN mission Sunday verified allegations that the Taliban and local self-proclaimed Daesh terrorists killed civilians in an attack in northern Afghanistan earlier this month. On Aug. 3, militants stormed the Mirza Olang valley, which is located in Sar-i-Pul province and mostly inhabited by ethnic Shia Hazara minority. […]

24th Jul 2017

Afghanistan: 30 killed, over 60 injured in Taliban suicide bomb attack in W Kabul

The Muslim News: A suicide car bomb explosion in western Kabul has killed 30 people and injured over 60, according to officials. The attack has been claimed by the Taliban, who have been very active in the last few months. Acting ministry spokesman Najib Danish said the target of the attack remained unclear, and that […]

26th Jun 2017

Afghanistan: 10 Afghan police killed in Taliban attack

By Sayed Khodaberdi Sadat KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Ten police officers were killed late Sunday in an attack by Taliban fighters in western Herat province, an Afghan official told Anadolu Agency. Another officer was injured in the attack that targeted the Salma Dam in the Chisti Sharif district, according to Herat governorate spokesman Farhad Jailani […]

18th Jun 2017

Afghanistan: 5 Afghan officers killed as Taliban storm police HQ

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): The Taliban in Afghanistan stormed a regional police headquarters following a suicide car bombing on Sunday killing at least five officers, officials have confirmed. The Afghan National Police (ANP) headquarters in the city of Gardez, provincial capital of the southeastern Paktia province is a two-hour drive from […]

27th May 2017

Afghanistan: 18 people killed in car-suicide bombing

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): A car-suicide bombing in Afghanistan’s Khost province has claimed at least 18 lives on the first day of holy month of Ramadan in the country. Locals told Anadolu Agency the attacker apparently targeted the Afghan security forces’ convoy in the provincial capital Khost City. Najib Danish, deputy […]

23rd Apr 2017

Afghanistan: Over 100 killed in Taliban attack

By Shadi Khan Saif KABUL, Afghanistan (AA): Over 100 casualties took place among Afghan soldiers in the Taliban’s attack on an army corps headquarters in northern Balkh province on Friday, according to the Ministry of Defense on Saturday. While the military did not give an exact figure of the dead and injured, the Balkh […]

6th Apr 2017

Pakistan: 6 killed in Lahore suicide bombing

By Aamir Latif KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): At least six people, including four army troops, were killed and 17 injured in a suicide blast in the northeastern Lahore city of Punjab on Wednesday, police and local media reported. The bomber, according to the police, struck a vehicle carrying census officers. Malik Ahmed Khan, a spokesman […]

12th Feb 2017

Afghanistan: Taliban suicide attack kills at least 10 in Helmand

By Islam Sajid ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): At least 10 people including security personnel were killed and several others wounded in a suicide attack by the Taliban in eastern Helmand province of Afghanistan on Saturday, a government official said. Helmand provincial governor spokesman Omer Zowak told Anadolu Agency on the phone that the incident took […]

15th Oct 2016

Myanmar Muslims condemn fatal attacks in Rakhine

By Kyaw Ye Lynn YANGON, (AA): Muslims in Myanmar have condemned recent fatal attacks on police station outposts in troubled western Rakhine State which the government has blamed on a little-known extremist group. About 40 people — including nine police, four soldiers and 26 suspected attackers — were killed following attacks on three police […]

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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