Afghanistan: 2 Killed, 4 Injured in 2 Kabul Explosions

Two explosions occurred in western Kabul city on Friday afternoon and two people were killed and four were injured, officials said. Saeed Khosty, the Interior Ministry spokesman, said the first explosion occurred in Dasht-e-Barchi in western Kabul city and targeted Read More …

Guerrilla tactics offer Ukraine’s best deterrent against Putin’s invasion force

While there is no consensus concerning what current Russian military activity near Ukraine means, it has led to strong statements from US officials. On December 3, the Washington Post reported that US intelligence has found the Kremlin is planning a Read More …

Afghanistan: Two Injured in Kabul Blast

At least two people were injured in a blast that occurred in Kabul’s Police District 6 on Tuesday morning, officials said. General Mobin, spokesman of Kabul security department, said the explosion was due to a mine placed in the area. Read More …

Afghanistan: Blast rocks Kabul injuring two people

A blast has rocked Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Tuesday, Aamaj News reports citing a police representative. According to him, the incident took place near Kandahar market in an area of Kabul. A magnetic mine was detonated which was attached to Read More …

Clearing Afghanistan’s landmines one careful step a time

Weeks after the Taliban took over Afghanistan, families who fled the fighting in one southern village returned home to find something strange: the cricket ground had been circled in rocks painted red and white. White, it turned out, meant it Read More …

30 Years of Impact – An Evaluation of the Mine Action Programme of Afghanistan

Due to successive waves of instability and conflict from the 1980s onwards, Afghanistan was heavily contaminated by explosive ordnance (EO). Established to improve this situation, the Mine Action Programme of Afghanistan (MAPA) commenced activities in 1988. MAPA is a platform Read More …

Afghanistan: Two People Wounded In Kabul Blast

At least two people were wounded in a roadside bomb blast that occurred on Monday morning in Police District 5 of Kabul city, officials said. Initially there was a report of no casualties, but the spokesman for the Kabul security Read More …

Afghanistan: Explosion in Kabul killed and injured civilians

An explosion killed at least one and wounded three more civilian people in Police District 18, Dasht-e-Barchi of Kabul on Saturday afternoon, November 13. Spokesperson of the Taliban Zabiullah Mujahid in a Twitter post confirmed the casualties but said that Read More …

Afghanistan: Bomb Explodes In Eastern Nangarhar Province

Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said a bomb ripped through a crowded mosque in eastern Nangarhar province Friday during afternoon prayers, wounding at least 15 worshippers. Provincial government spokesman Mohammad Hanif told VOA the explosive device was planted inside the mosque, Read More …

Afghanistan’s ghost soldiers undermined fight against Taliban – ex-official

Afghanistan’s ex-finance minister has blamed the government’s fall on corrupt officials who invented “ghost soldiers” and took payments from the Taliban. Khalid Payenda told the BBC that most of the 300,000 troops and police on the government’s books did not Read More …

Landmine casualties ‘exceptionally high’, Syria and Afghanistan worst-hit

According to Landmine Monitor 2021, the number of victims rose by 20 per cent in 2020 compared with the previous 12 months, the result of “increased armed conflict and contamination” of land with improvised mines. In total, more than 7,000 Read More …

Afghanistan: Roadside bomb targets Taliban, kills 2 in Jalalabad

A roadside bomb struck a Taliban patrol in a stronghold of Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two people and wounding three, witnesses said. Wednesday’s bomb went off in the city of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Read More …

Afghanistan: Explosions and gunfire heard at Kabul military hospital

The Afghan capital Kabul has been rocked by two explosions and gunfire at the site of a military hospital. A Taliban spokesman said the first blast happened in front of the 400-bed Sardar Daud Khan hospital and the second was Read More …

Afghanistan: Surge in Islamic State Attacks on Shia

The Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP), an armed group affiliated with the Islamic State (ISIS), is carrying out bombings and other targeted attacks against Afghanistan’s Shia religious minority that amount to crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch said today. Read More …

Afghanistan: ISIL claims responsibility for detonating power pylon in northern Kabul

Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant officially claimed responsibility for detonating a power pylon that cut the main power line to Kabul and left the Afghan capital in complete darkness since Thursday. In a statement released on the Telegram Read More …

Afghanistan: Child among at least two killed in roadside bombing targeting the Taliban in Jalalabad

A roadside bombing targeting a Taliban vehicle in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least two civilians, including a child, Taliban and health officials said. Two bombs detonated in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, as a Taliban vehicle was passing by on Read More …

Afghanistan: Deadly blast hits Shiite mosque in Kandahar during Friday prayers

A large explosion tore through a Shi’ite mosque in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar during Friday prayers, causing heavy casualties, a spokesman of the Taliban government’s interior ministry said. Qari Saeed Khosti said authorities were collecting details of the Read More …

Afghanistan: Blast in Kunar province kills Taliban commander, injures 11

A bomb ripped through a vehicle carrying a Taliban police chief in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing him and wounding 11 others, officials said. The blast happened in Asadabad, the capital of Kunar province, targeting the Taliban police chief for Read More …