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The Afghan army found and defused 51 rounds of landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) within a day, Defense Ministry said on Monday. “The Afghan National Army (ANA) engineering teams found and neutralized 51 rounds of landmines, roadside bombs and Read More …
At least seven Taliban insurgents have been killed and nine others injured by their own bomb in Alingar district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Tuesday. Sarhadi Zwak, the governor’s spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News that the incident happened when Read More …
At least five civilians were killed and six others were wounded in an explosion in Kabul’s PD10 on Friday afternoon, the Ministry of Interior’s spokesman said. The explosion took place near a mosque in Qala-e-Fathullah area in Kabul at around Read More …
An exemplary peace has been restored in the once volatile South Waziristan Agency (SWA) after successive military offensives; however, the rising blasts of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have become a new challenge for the war-weary tribesmen, as so far 70 Read More …
The militant Pakistani Taliban group said it carried out an attack on Sunday that killed five people in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Mohammad Khurassani said the militants planted an improvised explosive device “to target security Read More …
The Afghanistan Directorate for Mine Action Coordination (DMAC) and the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Afghanistan condemn in the strongest terms the killing of an Afghan deminer by Anti Government Elements, reportedly affiliated to Daesh/Islamic State Khorasan province, Read More …
A suicide bomber in an explosives-packed vehicle attacked a NATO convoy in Afghanistan on Monday, wounding “a small number” of foreign troops and at least three civilians, officials said. The soldiers were taken to the nearby Bagram Air Field and Read More …
At least six people have been wounded when a suicide bomber targeted the Bagram Airfield in Parwan province on Wednesday, an Afghan official said. Mohammad Asem, the provincial governor for Parwan, said the attacker was riding a motorcycle and detonated his explosives Read More …
Isis has claimed responsibility for an attack on a mosque in Kabul that left at least 30 dead. The group’s propaganda agency, Amaq, released a statement shortly after the attack saying its fighters were behind the killings. Gunmen stormed the Shia mosque, attacking Read More …
Afghan intelligence authorities have seized a truck in the capital Kabul carrying more than 16 tons of explosives hidden in boxes marked as poultry feed. Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a statement that the truck, with Pakistani license Read More …
A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle filled with explosives into a convoy of foreign forces on Wednesday in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar, officials said. “At around noon a car bomb targeted a convoy of foreign forces in Daman area of Kandahar,” said Read More …
An explosion at a mosque in the Afghan city of Herat has killed about 30 people and injured dozens more. The blast, which struck the Jawadia mosque, coincided with evening prayers at around 20:00 local time (15:30 GMT). Officials said Read More …
At least 35 people have been killed by a Taliban suicide bomber in the west of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. More than 40 others were wounded, including children, when a car packed with explosives was rammed into a bus carrying government Read More …
The United Nations on Monday called on insurgent groups in Afghanistan to curb attacks on civilians after more than 5,000 non-combatants were killed or wounded in the first six months of 2017. The war in Afghanistan killed at least 1,662 Read More …
The importance of the ability to travel from one area to another in combat cannot be overlooked. Strategy, supplies and well-trained warfighters are priorities, but without designated paths to get to the front lines, these assets prove ineffective. Approximately 70 Read More …
June 18, 2017 Dozens of people have been killed or wounded after up to five suicide bombers attacked a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, officials said. The attack, claimed by the Taliban, began at around 6:30am (2am GMT) Read More …
June 14, 2017 A suicide bomber targeted a checkpoint run by rival insurgents in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province Wednesday, killing nine of them, an Afghan official said. Mohammad Saleem Rohdi, chief of the Gareshk district, said six other militants from Read More …
June 3, 2017 At least 15 Afghans were killed when three back-to-back explosions ripped through a funeral Saturday held for one of the demonstrators killed during anti-government protests Friday, authorities said. About 700 mourners at a hillside cemetery in the Read More …
June 2, 2017 British soldiers had a nickname for Sangin. We called it ‘a town called Malice’, and with good reason. Its maze of compounds, mud-baked walls and alleys channelling soldiers into killing zones carefully constructed by the Taliban made Read More …
June 2, 2017 New Zealand will provide $750,000 to support landmine clearance in Afghanistan, Foreign Minister Gerry Brownlee has announced. “New Zealand has a long history of involvement in Afghanistan, including support for renewable energy and agriculture projects, as well Read More …