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Two people were killed and five others sustained injuries in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Jalalabad city on Monday morning. Tolo News confirmed that the IED was embedded in a military vehicle, after quoting provincial police spokesman, Farid Khan. The police said that the people Read More …
At least 19 Taliban militants were killed and four Improvised Explosive Device manufacturing facilities were destroyed during the operations in southern Helmand province. According to informed military sources “A multi-day operation in Nahr-e Saraj district of Helmand killed 19 Taliban Read More …
IED’s are deceitful. Improvised explosive devices remain one of the biggest threats to Afghan civilians as well as armed forces. Thus, NATO continues to train experts for the purpose of reducing the hazard. A group of ten new Afghan trainers Read More …
At least six people including three women and three children were wounded in an explosion in Jalalabad city, the provincial capital of Nangarhar province. The provincial government media office in a statement said the incident took place in the vicinity Read More …
The Department of Defense on Saturday identified the two soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan’s Kunduz Province on Friday as an explosive ordnance disposal tech and a Green Beret. Sgt. 1st Class Will D. Lindsay, 33, was assigned to 2nd Battalion, 10th Read More …
Nearly 30 people were killed or wounded in back to explosions in Kabul city earlier today, the officials confirmed. The type of explosions has not been ascertained so far but eyewitnesses had earlier said at least three mortar rounds have Read More …
At least 11 Taliban militants were killed, 2 suicide bombing vests and a house-borne Improvised Explosive Device were destroyed during the operations of Afghan Special Forces and airstrike in northern Kunduz province. According to informed military sources, the Afghan Special Read More …
A suicide bomber and his companion were arrested during an operation of the Special Forces of National Directorate of Security in Kabul. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) in a statement said the two suspects were arrested during the operation Read More …
At least three people were wounded in an explosion triggered by a magnetic Improvised Explosive Device in Herat city. According to local security officials, the incident took place later this afternoon in Herat city. Provincial police spokesman Abdul Ahad Walizada Read More …
The Afghan Special Forces have confiscated and destroyed a Humvee armored personnel carrier packed with explosives in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. According to the informed military sources, the Afghan Special Forces conducted a raid in the vicinity of Nangarhar Read More …
Fighting and brutal violence claimed exactly 3,804 civilian lives in 2018 – including 927 children, another tragic record for the year – according to data carefully collected by the UN. The number represents an increase of 11 per cent compared to 2017. In Read More …
A Taliban militant who was planting Improvised Explosive Device (IED) was arrested during an operation of the Afghan security forces. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) in a statement said the Taliban IED planter was arrested in Pashtun Zarghoon district of Read More …
At least two militants were killed as they were placing an Improvised Explosive Device in a graveyard in southern Kandahar province, the security officials said. Provincial Police Chief Gen. Tadin Khan said the incident took place late on Monday in Read More …
Police confirm an IED was placed under the driver’s seat in the car. One person was killed on Sunday night when a magnetic IED was detonated in Kabul, Kabul police said. Basir Ahmand Muhajid the spokesman for Kabul police confirmed Read More …
At least three civilians including a child were killed in an explosion triggered an improvised explosive device in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan. Provincial Police Chief Gen. Tadin Khan in a statement said the incident has taken place in the Read More …
At least seven Taliban militants were killed or wounded in an explosion triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in eastern Nangarhar province. The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East in a statement said the incident Read More …
Latest data from UNMAS, the UN Mine Action Service, shows that 1,415 Afghan civilians were killed or injured by mines and so-called explosive remnants of war (ERW) in 2018. Children make up eight in 10 of ERW casualties, according to Read More …
Two Taliban bomb makers have been killed in a government forces’ operation in Afghanistan’s western province of Farah, authorities said Monday. “Two Taliban improvised explosive device (IED) making experts by the names of Mullah Noorddin and Mullah Vali were killed Read More …
At least four militants affiliated with ISIS Khurasan terrorist group have been killed in an explosion triggered by an Improvised Explosive Device. The 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military confirmed that the militants were blown up by an Improvised Read More …
The Afghan security forces have arrested three suicide bombers including Pakistani nationals during separate operations in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. The media office of Nangarhar provincial government in a statement said the suicide bombers were arrested by the operatives Read More …