Police in capital Kabul on Thursday shot dead an armed woman who wanted to enter the building of the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said. The armed woman wanted to force her way into the…
KABUL from an unknown location, landed inside the new parliament building on Monday, causing some damage to the compound, an official said. One of the rockets hit a sub-building of the Indian-built parliament and two others landed close to Darul…
A district police chief in eastern Nuristan province was killed in a Taliban attack in Laghman province on Tuesday, officials said. Nuristan’s deputy police chief, Col. Mohammad Farooq, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Cap. Inayatullah Himmat came under…
A convoy of vehicles carrying the governor and other senior officials came under attack in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday, but there were no casualties. The convoy carrying Governor Wahidullah Kalimzai, police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Syedkhel,…
KABUL (DAFA) in southern Helmand province, killing four workers. In a statement, UNMAS said unknown militants shot dead three deminers hired from the local community and one site operations officer. One DAFA community section leader was missing. The statement said there…
A rocket fired by militants hit a microfinance bank in the central province of Parwan, causing no casualties, an official said on Saturday. The Aga Khan Microfinance Bank’s building in Charikar, the capital of Parwan came under the…
The residence of an Afghan consulate official came under attack in northwestern Pakistan in the wee hours of Friday, police said. But the consulate official, Humayun Yousafzai, escaped unhurt in the predawn gun assault on his house in…
Three policemen have been killed in separate attacks in northern Faryab Badakhshan provinces, officials said on Thursday. The Taliban killed two policemen on the Qaisar-Ghormach highway and took away their weapons, the Qaisar district chief, Rahmatullah Qaisari,told Pajhwok…
Seven people have been wounded in an ongoing attack on the Indian consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, officials said on Monday. Deputy police chief Col. Abdul Razzaq Qadiri told Pajhwok Afghan News the assault…
Gunbattles around the Spanish embassy in a heavily fortified neighbourhood of Kabul ended with the killing of at least 11 people on Saturday morning, officials said. The clashes began on Saturday evening when the Taliban stormed a foreign…
Taliban fighters on Tuesday evening forced their way into the Kandahar International Airport, triggering a clash with security personnel, but there is no report regarding casualties so far. A group of Taliban opened fire on security personnel…
Taliban fighters on Tuesday evening forced their way into the Kandahar International Airport, triggering a clash with security personnel, but there is no report regarding casualties so far. A group of Taliban opened fire on security personnel…
KABUL attack on a guesthouse in the seventh police district of Kabul ended with the killing of four bombers by security forces, an official said Tuesday. A security source told Pajhwok Afghan News a group of four militants stormed the…
The Tala wa Barfak district of northern Baghlan province has been overrun by the Taliban, who also captured the Khawaja Ghar town of Takhar province, residents and officials said on Thursday. A former jihadi commander from Tala wa…
Local security officials on Sunday said that the Islamic State (IS) or Daesh rebels’ attacks on Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province were pushed back by Afghan security forces with killing 35 fighters of the militant group. Earlier…
A suicide bomber on Wednesday struck the Paghman district police headquarters in Kabul, killing four people, including a crime branch official. Kabul crime branch chief, Brig. Gen. Faridoon Ubaidi, told Pajhwok Afghan News the suicide attack took place…
The Ministry of Interior (MoI) on Saturday confirmed over 50 civilians and security personnel were killed and wounded during two separate attacks in the capital Kabul on Friday night. According to a statement, the MoI said that the…
Five men detained for their alleged involvement in a deadly attack on an army-run school in Peshawar are currently being investigated by Afghan security forces, an official confirmed on Saturday. Based on actionable intelligence from Pakistan, Afghan forces…
KABUL’s southwestern province of Balochistan on Monday. Dozens of insurgents stormed the Frontier Corps (FC) checkpoint in the Mekhtar area of Loralai district with rockets and gunfire, a private news channel reported. DawnNews, monitored here, said several attackers were wounded…
Monday’s suicide attack that killed the Afghan Local Police (ALP) chief for central Logar province, Sabz Ali, was carried out by his nephew, also a member of the force, officials said on Wednesday. The attack inside the provincial…
KABUL’s first smartphone app awards were announced at the Afghan Mobile Business event, which scheduled to conclude with a job fair on Friday. It was organized by the Faculty of Economics of Kabul University in cooperation with the Faculty of…
An intelligence officer was gunned down in an attack in western Farah province, officials said on Friday. Unidentified gunmen fired at Asadullah Zalal, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) deputy chief for Farah, on his way home…
Four civilians were wounded in a pre-noon explosion in the capital of northern Balkh province on Wednesday, an official said. The bomb exploded in the Ibn-i-Sena Square northeast of the Hazrat Ali (RA) mausoleum at 11am, deputy police…
Fourteen police officials have been detained on charges of committing different crimes, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Monday. MoI spokesman Siddiqui Siddique told reporters in Kabul the ministry’s crime branch and intelligence officials had been directed…
