Afghanistan Times
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The government has released Uzbek women in exchange for three engineers of a welfare organization captured by militants in Faryab province. Spokesman for Faryab governor office, Ahmad Javid Baidar, confirmed the release of Uzbek women, detained by Afghan security forces in the province for having links with …
Read More »Releasing abducted passengers: Zabul officials reject any covert deal
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: It is almost one week that at least 30 passengers (ethnic Hazaras) have been abducted by armed men said to be linked to the international militant group—ISIS or Daesh, but their fate is unknown yet. Officials in southern Zabul province said Sunday that they have come up …
Read More »Taliban take hundreds of families hostage in Helmand: Official
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Taliban militants have taken hostage hundreds of families in Marjah district of southern Helmand province, said an official source. Marjah district chief, Ahmad Shafi Solamal, told Azadi Radio that after that the Afghan security forces launched a clearance operation against militants in the district, Taliban started suing …
Read More »Abducted passengers in ISIS custody: Zabul PC
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The provincial council (PC) office and a number of MPs in southern Zabul province said Saturday that the abducted passengers (ethnic Hazaras) were still alive and were in the custody of armed men linked to the international militant group—ISIS or Daesh. Radio Azadi quoted the head of …
Read More »Governor sees LeJ, Chechen militants’ hand behind passengers’ abduction
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Local official blamed Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Chechen militants for abduction of 30 passengers on Kabul-Kandahar Highway. The acting governor of Zabul province, Muhammad Ashraf Nasiri, said that the LeJ and Chechen militants in cooperation with local insurgents have kidnapped 30 passengers of the Hazara ethnic minority. …
Read More »2 militants killed in failed rocket attack on Afghan forces
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: As many as two Taliban militants were killed in a failed rocket attack on Afghan national security forces in eastern Paktika province, said officials on Friday. The provincial governor spokesman, Nabiullah Pirkhel, said the incident took place in Bermal district late on Thursday night. He said that …
Read More »Botched suicide attack on Nangarhar MP leaves 3 dead
KABUL: Three persons were killed and 13 others wounded when the convoy of Wolesi Jirga member Faridoon Momand came under suicide attack in Jalalabad City, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province on Friday, officials said. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the attack on Momand took …
Read More »Two suicide bombers held in Herat
AT-KABUL: Afghan security forces detained two would-be suicide bombers in western Herat province who had disguised themselves in women’s dress. Mehdi Rezaie, a spokesman for the Afghan army in Herat, said that Afghan forces arrested the suicide bombers in Guzara district of the province. He added that the bombers wanted …
Read More »Five security troops killed in Khost, Uruzgan blasts
AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: In two separate blasts five Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) personnel were killed, said official sources. On Wednesday afternoon a military vehicle hit an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by insurgents near Khost City, the spokesman of the first Afghan National Army (ANA) Corps, Capt. Abdullah, told …
Read More »Tagab district cleared of militants: MoI
AT News Report-KABUL: Ministry of Interior (MoI) claimed on Monday that police has cleared Tagab district of Badakhshan province from the militants while launching a successful operation. In a media statement, the ministry said that four armed Taliban insurgents were killed and nine others injured in the operation. In the …
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