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Pakistan launched heavy bombardment targeting Afghanistan’s capital Kabul again, according to Taliban officials and residents reporting multiple explosions across the city. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid confirmed the strikes, saying a drug rehabilitation hospital was hit and several civilians were killed. Read More …
A child was killed andkwhen an unexploded shell detonated in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, Taliban officials said Thursday. The Taliban’s provincial police command said in a statement that the blast occurred in the Hisar Shahi village of Rodat district after Read More …
As recently as June 24, 2025, two children were killed and two injured after one of them struck an unexploded device with an axe in Dar-e-Noor, Nagahar province. 6.4 million Afghans live at risk of unexploded ordnance (UXO), with children 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 …
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 …
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 …
An explosion in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan has killed at least nine children and wounded four others, according to local officials. The blast on Monday took place when a cart selling food items struck an old, unexploded Read More …
Taliban authorities in Afghanistan said a bomb ripped through a crowded mosque in eastern Nangarhar province Friday during afternoon prayers, wounding at least 15 worshippers. Provincial government spokesman Mohammad Hanif told VOA the explosive device was planted inside the mosque, Read More …
A roadside bomb struck a Taliban patrol in a stronghold of Islamic State militants in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing two people and wounding three, witnesses said. Wednesday’s bomb went off in the city of Jalalabad, the capital of Nangarhar Read More …
A roadside bombing targeting a Taliban vehicle in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least two civilians, including a child, Taliban and health officials said. Two bombs detonated in Jalalabad, east of Kabul, as a Taliban vehicle was passing by on Read More …
Afghan media quoted Taliban officials as saying that an explosion in Nangarhar province and an armed attack in Laghman province wounded Taliban members and Afghan civilians. This explosion happened shortly after 8 p.m. on Tuesday near Qala-e-Akhund in Kameh District Read More …
The eastern city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan has seen a spate of attacks against the Taliban this week by the group IS Khorasan (ISIS-K), an affiliate of ISIS. ISIS-K claimed three attacks in the city on Wednesday and Thursday. Through Read More …
Witnesses say an explosion targeted a Taliban vehicle in the provincial city of Jalalabad, the second such deadly blast in as many days in a Daesh stronghold. The Taliban and Daesh extremists are enemies, and fought each other even before Read More …
Three consecutive explosions targeting rangers of the Taliban killed 2 and wounded 19 more among them women and children in Police District 5 of Jalalabad city of eastern Nangarhar province. Health officials of the provincial hospital in Jalalabad city said Read More …
The US military says it believes it has killed a planner for the Afghan branch of the Islamic State group in a drone strike in the east of the country. The suspected member of the IS-K group was targeted in 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 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 …
Sharifullah Fazli, the district governor of Kama, and two of his security guards were wounded in a blast in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Thursday morning, a security official, who wished not to be named, said. The incident happened Read More …
Officials in Nangarhar province say a Taliban blew up a bridge in the province, disrupting communications in at least four districts. The Nangarhar provincial press office told RFE / RL that the Taliban destroyed a bridge in the Bawli area Read More …