At least 23 Taliban members and two troops of the Afghan National Army were killed in military operations against the insurgents, the Defence Ministry said Wednesday. “The operation was launched in three provinces of Kandahar, Kunduz and Kapisa in the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement. “Twenty-five[…]
A senior Afghan army general has told Al Jazeera that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group has been active in Afghanistan. A Ministry of Interior source also confirmed ISIL’s existence in the country. On Sunday, Lieutenant-General Murad Ali Murad, commander of Afghan army’s ground forces, told[…]
Afghanistan’s national unity government announced its first cabinet on Monday at a press conference in Kabul, 106 days after President Ashraf Ghani was inaugurated. The announcement was made in a national televised address by Ghani’s chief of staff Salam Rahimi. The names of the 25-member cabinet will now be sent[…]
Afghan national security forces took over full responsibility for the country’s security Thursday, as NATO-led coalition forces ended their 13-year-old active combat mission and started a new phase providing training, advice, and assistance. “I congratulate Afghans for this historic day,” said President Ashraf Ghani while marking the transition. “We will[…]
US President Barack Obama saluted Sunday the “milestone” end of NATO’s combat mission in Afghanistan, but warned the country remains “a dangerous place.” A low-key ceremony in Kabul marked the formal end of NATO’s war after 13 years of conflict that have left the country in the grip of worsening[…]
The United States and NATO will mark the formal end of the war in Afghanistan on Sunday with a ceremony at their military headquarters in Kabul as the insurgency they fought for 13 years remains as ferocious and deadly as at any time since the 2001 invasion that unseated the[…]
Suspected Taliban fighters have detonated suicide bombs and then stormed a bank branch in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, officials have said, adding a total of 13 people died in the incident. A spokesman for the Helmand governor said that the fighters engaged in a firefight with security forces[…]
Defying frequent attacks by armed groups across his country, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has given a speech following a wave of recent Taliban activity, pledging that Afghanistan “will never surrender”. In a televised speech on Sunday, Ghani called on all religious, political and social leaders to condemn the violence. At[…]
Dr Hannelie Groenewald was in a meeting in Kabul when the Taliban wiped out her entire family at their Afghanistan compound, the Pretoria News reported on Saturday. “An attack was expected on that day. Little did I know it would take place a few hours later at my house, killing[…]
A series of attacks across Afghanistan have killed more than a dozen people, including 12 workers clearing land mines in the country’s south and seven Afghan soldiers in Kabul. The largest attack on Saturday targeted the Shorab camp in Helmand province, where the demining workers were based, Afghan police spokesman[…]
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