FARAH CITY (PAN): Three boosters of private telecommunications companies were destroyed in rocket attack by militants in western Farah province, an official said on Monday. Located in the Nawbahar village on the outskirts of Farah City, the towers belonged to…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Three individuals have detained with 40 kilograms of opium in the Amardara district of western Farah province, an official said on Tuesday. A Kalashnikov, a walkie-talkie, a van and a motorbike were seized from the detainees, the…
KABUL, but would fight against foreign fighters with full force. During a meeting with relatives of those killed and wounded in Wednesday’s suicide attack in western Farah province, the president said: “We want peace at any cost, because it is…
FARAH CITY (PAN): The toll from Wednesday’s well-coordinated insurgent assault on a crowded courthouse in western Farah province has risen to 54 dead and 100 wounded, officials said on Thursday. Twenty-six civilians, six army soldiers, four policemen, eight judge and…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Three Arab fighters were among 14 insurgents killed in different security incidents in Khaki Safid and Bala Baluk district of western Farah province, an official said on Tuesday. A clash erupted between the rebels and police during…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Three people were killed and 13 others wounded in road crash in the Bala Baluk district of western Farah province on Monday morning, an official said. The head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck took…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Eight people, most of them civilians, lost their lives to a fresh wave of violence in different parts of western Farah province over the past 24 hours, officials said on Sunday. Two civilians and one policeman were…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Five militants were killed by their own bombs in two separate premature explosions in Pushtrud and Bakwa districts of western Farah province, officials said on Saturday. Pushrud district chief Ghausuddin said the incident took place Friday night,…
FARAH CITY (PAN): The Qala Kah district police chief and another officer were killed in a roadside bombing in the in the western province of Farah, officials said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday night when the Captain…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Three Afghan policemen fired at Italian troops in the Bala Baluk district of western Farah province late on Monday, but the insider assault caused no casualties, local officials said on Tuesday. On the other hand, the International…
HERAT CITY (PAN): The former district chief of Gulistan, Ghulam Yahya Tawakali, was shot dead Sunday morning by an unknown gunman outside his house, said an official. A police officer Mohammad Ali Dashti told Pajhwok Afghan News that the former…
FARAH CITY (PAN): A woman was killed and 28 people, including children and women, were injured in rocket attacks on Farah city in the western province of the country, officials said on Saturday. Two rockets landed in front of the…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Eight passengers were killed and five others wounded in an accident after the bus they were travelling in overturned in western Farah province on Sunday, officials said. Governor Mohammad Akram Khpalwak told Pajhwok Afghan News that the…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Security personnel nabbed a would-be motorcycle suicide bomber in the western province of Farah, officials said Monday. The bomber from Khak Safed district was captured late on Sunday evening with an explosives-laden motorcycle in Farah City, the…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Seven government officials and four militants were killed and 13 people, including nine civilians, injured during a brazen militant attack on the governor’s office in western Farah province on Thursday, officials said. A private guard of the…
ZARANJ/FARAH CITY (PAN fighters and 27 suspects have been detained during a series of security operations in southwestern Nimroz and western Farah provinces, officials said on Wednesday. The militants included a commander named Mullah Marjan, accused of supplying logistics to…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Most inhabitants of western Farah province, unable to pay heavy electricity bills, have returned to the use of lanterns, officials and residents said on Sunday. Naqibuallah, a schoolteacher, said they had been forced into using lanterns due…
FARAH (PAN commander, who escaped from jail, was among five militants rearrested by a joint Afghan-international security force during an operation in the Bala Baluk district of western Farah province, an official said on Monday. The operation was conducted in…
FARAH CITY (PAN): A 20-member militant group joined the government-initiated peace process in western Farah province, officials said on Thursday. Led by Mullah head said. Amir Mohammad Ayubi told Pajhwok Afghan News the surrendering men had been active in Shewan…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Counternarcotics police in southwestern province of Farah on Monday arrested 21 growers on charges of cultivating poppies, officials said. However, farmers and local officials said the main cause behind the increase in poppy cultivation in Farah was…
