Report in TOLO News, 09 Nov, 2020 at 10:51 AMAt least eight civilians were killed and seven more were wounded after three mortars hit near residential houses in Naw Abad area in the city of Ghazni this evening, the provincial police spokesman Wahidullah Juma said. He said that the incident happened when the first mortar “shelled by the Taliban” hit a house in the area and that the two others hit the area when the…
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By Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Fatima Faizi in The NY Times, Nov 8, 2020KABUL, Afghanistan — A famous journalist, the father of an oft-threatened mayor and at least 22 others, many of them university students — all were killed within the span of a week in Kabul, Afghanistan’s capital, the victims of targeted assassinations and a terrorist attack. The series of assaults, while highlighting a city under violent siege, has also exposed growing, and very public,…
Report in TOLO News, 08 Nov, 2020 at 6:22 PMAt least four security forces members were killed and six more were wounded in Taliban attacks in different areas in the northern province of Baghlan in the last 24 hours, security sources said on Sunday. The attacks took place on security outposts in Baghlan-e-Markazi and Nahrin districts as well as on the outskirts of Pul-e-Khumri city, the center of Baghlan, the sources said. “Two of the…
By Mohammad Arif Sheva in Khaama Press, 08 Nov 2020 at 02:20 PMAt least four Taliban insurgents were killed and further five wounded in a battle with Afghan National Army in Nadali district of Helmand province, said the Ministry of Defense in a statement Sunday. Security forces also arrested six members of the Taliban terrorist group, according to the statement. “4 Taliban were killed, 5 were wounded and 6 others were arrested by ANA in…
By Massoud Ansar in TOLO News, 06 Nov, 2020 at 8:27 PMSalahuddin Rabbani, head of Jamiat-e-Islami party, at a gathering of his supporters in Kabul on Friday said that lack of consensus in the country on the ongoing peace talks with the Taliban in Qatar and absence of Afghanistan’s influential politicians in the process have overshadowed the negotiations. Rabbani, who addressed his supporters, alleged that there are some elements within the government who see their…
Report in TOLO News, 06 Nov, 2020 at 8:33 PMThe Afghan Army Chief Gen. Mohammad Yasin Zia on Friday said the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) have retaken the Arghandab district in the southern Kandahar province from the Taliban days after the group attacked some areas in the district. Zia told TOLOnews that at least 200 Taliban militants were killed in the operation against the group in the district. Arghandab is one of…
By Zahra Rahimi in TOLO News, 06 Nov, 2020 at 6:48 PMAmid a dramatic surge in the level of violence in the country, Lt.Gen. John Deedrick, the commander of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A) on Friday said that the Taliban violence is too high and that support for the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) will continue. “The Taliban violence is too high and we are continuing to support the Afghan security forces and…
report in The News, Nov 5, 2020KABUL: Students were gunned down “one by one” as they leapt from the windows of Kabul University classrooms when militants stormed the campus earlier this week, a survivor said Wednesday. At least 22 people, mostly students, were killed and another 27 wounded when three gunmen stormed the university on Monday, spraying classrooms with bullets in an assault claimed by the Islamic State group. Mohammad Qasim Kohistani, 22, a student…
By Zahra Rahimi in TOLO News, 05 Nov, 2020 at 7:00 PMGen. Yasin Zia, Chief of Army Staff, who is in south of the country following an increase in Taliban attacks, said on Thursday that more al-Qaeda members have been killed in operations by Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in a Taliban-influenced area in Farah province in the last few days. “The Taliban still have close coordination and conduct operations with other terrorist organizations…
By Mohammad Haroon Alim in Khaama Press, 05 Nov 2020 at 11:56 AMAbdullah Jan, a Taliban commander, was killed along with eight of his fighters in the Nawa district of Helmand Province. During the reciprocal operations, security forces defused 28 Improvised Explosive Devices placed on public places. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense reported, three Taliban militants were killed and five others were wounded in the Gizab district of Uruzgan Province, during ANDSF’s reciprocal attacks. Much…
By Abdullah Achakzai in TOLO News, 05 Nov, 2020 at 8:28 PMGen. Yasin Zia, Chief of Army Staff on Thursday said that the Afghan security forces have cleared Zherai and Panjwai districts of the Taliban. Officials from the Ministry of Defense said that the military operation will continue in those districts to help displaced families to repatriate safety to their homes. “The Taliban wanted to create chaos and horror in suburbs of Kandahar city. They…