Four civilians were injured during a clash while a fuel tanker was torched and another fuel tanker was seized by Taliban militants on Mazar-Shebrghan highway, officials said on Tuesday. Deputy police chief of northern Balkh province, Abdul Razaq…
Tribal eleders from the Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday asked the government to bring night raids by 02 Special Forces Unit to a halt. They claimed around 160 civilians, including women and children, have been…
KABUL said on Sunday. A report from UNAMA put the civilian fatalities from January 1 to July 15 at 1,692 -- 1% more than a year earlier and the highest for the period since 2009. Militant attacks and suicide bombings…
KABUL, the Civilian Protection Advocacy Group (CPAG) said on Sunday. In June 2017, 1043 people had been killed and wounded in 16 provinces of the country. Last month, the government and the Taliban observed a truce during the Eidul Fitr…
Local officials on Saturday said 25 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed during an hours long battle with Taliban insurgents in Shah Walikot district of southern Kandahar province. Maj. Khwaja Yehya Alawi, spokesman for the…
KABUL militants during the past 24 hours nationwide, officials said Saturday. Kunduz provincial council member Aminullah Aiden told Pajhwok Afghan News that 24 Afghan local police personnel were killed after Taliban militants stormed their check-points in Kolokh Tapa locality of…
As many as people 2,100 including civilians, security forces and militants have either been killed or wounded during the past eight days in 216 districts of the country, lawmakers were told on Monday. Defense Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami,…
At least 10 people were killed or wounded during Afghan forces operation in Sabari Yaqobi district of southeastern Khost province, officials said Wednesday. The ongoing operation is launched by Afghan Special Forces known as Campaign in Abad…
Seven members of a family were killed during an operation of Afghan security forces in Alishir district of southeastern Khost province, an official said Thursday. Ali Jan Kochi, a member of the victim’s family, told Pajhwok Afghan…
At least 17 Daesh or so called Islamic State (IS) insurgents have been killed during operations in two districts of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said Sunday. A statement from the governor’s house received by Pajhwok Afghan News, said…
Six policemen have been killed in a Taliban attack in Nawa district of southern Helmand province, officials said Thursday. The district police chief, Capt. Amanullah, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Taliban militants stormed a police post in Chahar…
Heavy casualties have been inflicted on militants and a large quantity of weapons recovered from them in an air-and-ground offensive in the southeastern zone of the country, a military official claimed on Thursday. Maj. Gen. Shaoor Gul has,…
Three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and eight Taliban were killed after the militants stormed a check-point in the Qarabagh district of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Saturday. Mohammad Arif Noori, the governor’s spokesman, told…
Eight Taliban militants were killed in an airstrike in the capital of central Uruzgan province last night, an official said on Friday. Another three militants were injured in the NATO airstrike that struck a centre of the insurgents…
Heavily armed Taliban insurgents stormed security posts in Deh Yak district of southern Ghazni province last night and the ensuing clash left seven dead and 14 wounded on both sides, police said Friday. It was the third…
At least 43 militants have suffered casualties during an ongoing operation in Jalriz district of central Madian Wardak province, officials said Thursday. Governor’s spokesman, Abdur Rahman Mangal, told Pajhwok Afghan News an operation codenamed, Khalid-96 was underway in…
More than 2,500 people were killed and wounded in 169 attacks across Afghanistan in October, indicating a 39 percent increase in casualties compared to September. In September, 1,800 people had suffered casualties in 203 attacks that took place…
More than 1,800 people were killed and wounded in hundreds of attacks across Afghanistan in September, indicating a 40 percent decrease in casualties compared to August. There was no considerable decrease in the number of attacks taking place…
At least three policemen were killed and a fourth wounded in a roadside bombing in the Ghorian district of western Herat province on Tuesday, an official said. The governor’s spokesman, Jailani Farhad, told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
Two children were killed and three others wounded after Pakistani forces fired more than three dozens of mortar shells into eastern Nangarhar province. At least 37 mortars were fired from across the border into Spinajai, Sapo, Mastal Kandaw,…
Fourteen militants and three civilians have been killed in security forces operation in Lalak and Zark areas situated between the Khakrez and Ghorak districts of southern Kandahar province, an official said Tuesday. Police Chief Zia Durrani told…
Local officials confirmed on Tuesday the fall of three security posts and a bazaar of the Kohistan district of northwestern Faryab province to the Taliban. Ghaibullah Mirzad, commander of Afghan forces and uprising groups in the Bandar area…
One civilian was killed and eight others were wounded on Wednesday when a bomb went off inside a vegetable shop in the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said. The blast took place in Malocho Street in…
As many as 452 dead and injured people were delivered at the Civil Hospital in the capital of central Uruzgan province during the past one year, health officials said on Wednesday. Hospital Director Aminullah Tokhi told reporters here…
