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A blast occurred this morning in the Darul Aman area of PD7 in capital Kabul city, residents reported and officials confirmed. Kabul security department spokesman Khalid Zadran said in a statement that a suicide bomber was intending to explode himself Read More …
Mawlawi Mujeeb Rahman Ansari, a famous Islamic cleric and imam of Guzargah mosque in Herat province, was killed in a blast occurring inside the mosque on Friday. The blast happened during the Friday prayers inside the mosque and was due Read More …
Two children, who were brothers, died as a result of the explosion of a grenade, an unexploded explosive remnant of war, in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, according to local Taliban authorities. The event took place on Wednesday, the Read More …
The Balkh Security Command said that an explosion in Mazar-e-Sharif on Wednesday injured four people, including the perpetrator, who authorities said was carrying explosives when they detonated. According to the Balkh Police Command’s spokesman, Asif Waziri, the incident occurred at Read More …
At least 21 people have been killed and 33 others were wounded after a bombing at a mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, during evening prayers on Wednesday, according to the police. “Yesterday an explosion occurred in a mosque … Read More …
At least four people including two members of the Islamic Emirate’s forces were wounded in a blast that took place near an electronic identity center in PD 13 of capital Kabul, a security official said. Abdul Rahman Nafay, commander of Read More …
A prominent Taliban cleric, Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, was killed in an attack in a seminary in Kabul when the attacker detonated explosives hidden in a plastic artificial leg, according to officials and Taliban sources. “Very sadly informed that respected cleric Read More …
A bombing in the heart of Kabul’s Shiite minority community Saturday killed at least two people and wounded 22. It was the third terrorist attack in the area since Wednesday, and intensified fears of further violence during the final days Read More …
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has been killed by a US airstrike in Afghanistan, US President Joe Biden has said. Addressing the nation from the balcony off the White House Blue Room, Mr Biden said “justice has been delivered” after Read More …
Kabul Police Command confirmed that an explosion occurred in the Kabul International Cricket Stadium during the Shpagize competition on Friday. Khaled Zadran, spokesman of Kabul Police Command, said the incident occurred when a grenade was thrown between viewers and many Read More …
t least two children were killed and 10 others sustained injuries in an explosion that took place in Zabul province of Afghanistan on Tuesday, 26 July. An official has claimed that a group of children found an object which appeared Read More …
A remnant of war, an unexploded mortar shell, which exploded on Monday, 25th July, killed at least two children in the central Afghan province of Uruzgan. Agha Wali Quraishi, the Taliban’s spokesman for the police chief office in Uruzgan province Read More …
There is nothing I love more than a wholesome military working dog story, and that’s exactly what we found on the unofficial Army Reddit page this week. Army Capt. Jacob Rafalson, commander of the 759th Ordnance Company (EOD), posted on Read More …
At a Red Cross hospital in Kabul, a woman helps her young child put on his prosthetic leg. He’s just one of thousands of land-mine victims in Afghanistan. After four decades of war, the country is one of the most Read More …
According to the Taliban’s security officials, eight people were wounded on Saturday when unidentified assailants threw a hand grenade into a religious seminary in Nangarhar province, in eastern Afghanistan. The grenade explosion targeted an Islamic religious school called Zunoorain Usman, Read More …
Multiple explosions and gunfire were heard near Loya Jirga hall, a location in Kabul where Afghan religious scholars and tribal elders had gathered for the Taliban’s grand assembly, according to local sources. According to the sources, on Thursday afternoon in Read More …
An assault on a temple of Afghanistan’s tiny Sikh community has left one worshipper and a Taliban member dead as well as the unidentified attackers. The temple in the capital Kabul was hit by a bomb early in the morning Read More …
Three simultaneous explosions have been reported in Afghanistan’s Badakhshan, Kunduz, and Kunar provinces, according to sources. On Sunday morning, June the 12th, an explosion took place on a vehicle carrying Taliban forces in the Kari area of Faizabad, Badakhshan province. Read More …
Six people were killed and a seventh injured in a roadside bomb blast in southern Kandahar province, officials said on Friday. Spin Boldak police chief Mohammad Hashim Mahmood told Pajhwok Afghan News the blast took place at around 8am in Read More …
According to Taliban security officials, a mortar shell explosion in Kunduz province has killed one child. Abdullah Abedi, spokesman for the Taliban Police in Kunduz province, said the event occurred before noon on Tuesday, 7th June, in the village of Read More …