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The secretary of Kandahar’s governor and a security guard were killed, and another security guard was wounded, in a magnetic IED blast that occurred in a parking area in the governor’s compound in Kandahar city on Sunday afternoon, local security Read More …
The Afghan National Directorate for Security (NDS) has thwarted a “terrorist attack” on a Herat-Kabul flight, the NDS said in a statement on Friday. According to the statement, the NDS personnel have arrested a man at the Herat’s Khwaja Abdullah Read More …
An explosion in the city of Jalalabad injured four civilians. Farid Khan, spokesman for the Nangarhar police chief, told RFE / RL that the blast took place at around 2pm on Tuesday in the Do Sarkeh area of the 7th Read More …
At least one civilian was killed and four more were wounded–including two women–in a blast that targeted a vehicle in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Monday morning, local security officials said. The blast took place in PD5 of Jalalabad Read More …
At least 13 people were wounded after a roadside bomb struck a passenger bus in the Charikar, the capital of Parwan province, on Sunday, local officials said. Mohammad Sadiq Hashimi, the Parwan crime branch chief, told Ariana News that the Read More …
According to a senior Turkish defense official, a US military delegation will visit Ankara later this week to hold detailed consultations on a possible Turkish role in securing Kabul International Airport following Nato’s withdrawal. Turkey has reportedly pledged to protect Read More …
Balkh police say that last night a truck full of Taliban explosives, which was trying to target the police headquarters of Dolatabad district of the province, was identified and targeted by security forces before reaching the target. پولیس بلخ می Read More …
Aqa Mohammad has not spoken much since he found out that his father, Ghulam Mohammad, a mine clearance professional in the Baghlan province of Afghanistan, was murdered by armed gunmen last week. “My father was a brave man and accomplished Read More …
Two blasts targeted two minivans carrying civilians in two areas in the west of Kabul on Saturday afternoon, the Ministry of Interior Affairs said. One of the blasts happened in the Dasht-e-Barchi area in Kabul’s District 13 and another happened Read More …
Ten people were killed, and 16 others injured, when gunmen burst into a demining camp in Baghlan-e-Markazi district and opened fire. HALO Trust said the attack occurred around 9:50 pm Tuesday, local time, when some 110 men, from local communities Read More …
At least 10 deminers from the HALO Trust organization were killed and 16 more were wounded in an attack by gunmen on their office in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday night, a security official who wished not to Read More …
At least 16 people, including 2 civilians, were killed in the recent attack on the police headquarters in Balkh province, and 117 others, including 67 civilians, were wounded, said Mohammad Younus Stanekzai, the Balkh district governor. According to local officials, Read More …
The country’s power distributor, Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), on Tuesday said that 23 electricity pylons have been destroyed or damaged by explosions in just a month’s time, raising concerns over the stability of the imported power as many areas Read More …
At least 11 civilians have been killed in northern Afghanistan when their vehicle set off a land mine, local government officials said on Sunday, accusing the Taliban of planting the roadside bomb. Husamudim Shams, the governor of the northern province Read More …
Security sources said a car bomb was detonated on Saturday night in Qaisar district and that the Taliban then stormed district police headquarters. According to a member of the Faryab Provincial Council, at least 14 members of the Afghan forces Read More …
The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point search operations, managed to discover & defuse four IEDs in Kabul and Faryab provinces. The engineering teams of ANP following point-to-point search operations, managed to discover & defuse four IEDs in Kabul and Read More …
Ariana News confirms the death of one of its female journalists, killed in an IED explosion Thursday evening in Kabul city. Mina Khairi, a female journalist and media worker for Ariana Radio and Television and her mother were killed in Read More …
Two back-to-back explosions on Tuesday evening rocked capital Kabul city, leaving civilian casualties, officials said. Kabul police confirmed the death of 10 civilians and injury of another 12 Kabul citizens in a twin IED blast on two coaster buses on Read More …
At least two civilians were killed, and 10 other people were wounded in a blast targeting a security force convoy in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday morning, the provincial governor’s spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said. The blast occurred in the Bargeno Read More …
Four security force members were killed in a car bomb attack by the Taliban on the police headquarters in Baghlan-e-Markazi district in the northern province of Baghlan on Monday evening, officials said Tuesday. The attack took place at around 6:30 Read More …