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Two civilians were injured as a blast rocked Police District 2 of Afghan capital Kabul city on Saturday, Kabul’s police spokesman Khalid Zadran said. “Two civilians were injured after a sticky bomb struck a vehicle in Police District 2 today Read More …
Unexploded ordnance and mines in war-torn areas of Helmand threaten the lives of residents of the province who are calling on the government to clear the areas affected by the landmines. Abdul Bari, who lives in helmand’s sarkar area, said Read More …
Pakistan has expressed concern over the uptick in militancy along its border with Afghanistan. In an interview with the leading American magazine, Newsweek, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations Munir Akram warned that unless the economic situation improves Read More …
A bomb blast took place near the entrance of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul earlier today, according to local sources. Kabul Police Spokesperson, Khalid Zadran, in a tweet said that the explosion happened in front of the Ministry Read More …
An explosion outside the military airport in Kabul has caused multiple casualties, a spokesman for the Taliban-run interior ministry said. “Today morning an explosion took place outside Kabul military airport, due to which a number of our citizens were martyred Read More …
A blast targeted a vehicle in the city of Faizabad, Badakhshan province, on Monday morning, killing head of the provincial security department, Abdulhaq Abu Omar, the ministry of interior confirmed. The blast happened nearby the compound of the security department, Read More …
ISIS’s regional offshoot, ISKP claimed responsibility for the bomb and gun attack on a multi-story hotel in Kabul on Monday, which left at least 3 assailants killed and 21 others injured, including foreign nationals. The ISKP shared a video of Read More …
A number of civilians were wounded in an explosion in a money exchange market on Tuesday in Nangarhar province. The blast occurred in District 1 of Jalalabad city, center of Nangarhar province at 14:00 pm local time at a money Read More …
Security officials in the northern Afghan province of Balkh said that an explosion in Mazar-e-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh, on Tuesday resulted in at least 7 fatalities and 6 injuries. According to the sources, a roadside mine detonation in Read More …
Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul came under attack on Friday with gunfire wounding a Pakistani security guard, officials said, in what Islamabad called an attempt to assassinate its head of mission, who was unhurt. In a separate attack in the Afghan Read More …
The Ministry of Interior’s spokesperson, Abdul Nafi Takor, tweeted that 10 students were killed and dozens more were injured as a result of the explosion on Wednesday afternoon, November 30. According to the Interior Ministry official, the explosion took place Read More …
The Taliban government security authorities said that the explosion that took place in the Police District 4 of Kabul, the Afghan capital, resulted in 2 fatalities. According to Khalid Zadran, the spokesman for the Taliban government’s Kabul police chief, the Read More …
According to the source, this explosion took place on Wednesday, November 16, before noon, on 3rd Gudam Street, in front of the court gate of Taleqan city, the provincial capital of Takhar. The domestic media outlets also reported that the Read More …
Five people, all civilians, were injured after a hand-grenade exploded in Mazar-i-Sharif city, capital of northern Balkh province on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman Mohammad Asif Waziri said on Wednesday. Confirming the accident, the official said that unidentified men threw a Read More …
A blast occurred Wednesday morning in the Silo Markazi area of PD 5 in the capital city of Kabul. Kabul security department’s spokesman Khalid Zadran said that based on initial reports 8 people were wounded in a blast which targeted Read More …
Since the takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban in August 2021, opium cultivation increased by 32%, or 56,000 hectares, compared to the previous year. This represents the third largest area under cultivation since the beginning of systematic monitoring. The area Read More …
The spokesperson of the Taliban police chief office in Kabul, Khalid Zadran, said that the explosion took place at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon on Friday, October 28, in the Sheikh Mohammad Rohani Mosque. The explosion took place in Read More …
Two children were killed and two others injured after an unexploded mortar shell exploded in the eastern Afghan province of Paktia, said local Taliban officials. A mortar shell struck the Zazi district of Paktia province on Saturday, October 22, killing Read More …
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan commander Maulvi Abdullah was critically injured in a targeted attack in Afghanistan’s Kunar province on Sunday. The former chief justice of the Bajaur tribal district was inside a vehicle when an improvised explosive device attack resulted in him Read More …
As a result of an explosion in Kabul’s Dewan Begi area PD5 Saturday morning, three civilians were injured, sources said. Khalid Zadran, Kabul police spokesman confirmed the blast in a tweet, saying it was due to a mine placed in Read More …