The Taliban on Thursday allowed telecom companies to resume services in western Farah province only for three hours a day, ending a 15-day full blackout. Four private and the state-run Salaam telecom companies are operating in Farah…
Two key Taliban members have been killed in separate airstrikes in western Farah province, an official said on Tuesday. Mohibullah Mohib, police spokesman, said that Mullah troops in Khak-i-Safid district on Monday evening. He claimed the military…
Three civilians have been killed in two separate roadside bombings in western Farah province, police said on Monday. Farah police spokesman Mohibullah Mohib told Pajhwok Afghan News that two traders were killed when a roadside bomb tore through…
Eight people, including women and children, were killed in a roadside bombing in Anardara district of western Farah province on Sunday. Police spokesman Mohammadullah Moheb said the car was carrying family members when it hit the hidden bomb.…
Local officials on Thursday said six Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed and four others wounded in a roadside bombing in Bala Bulook district of western Farah province. Local officials warn dozens of Afghan forces besieged…
KABUL members from western Farah province on Wednesday warned the province was on the brink of collapse to militants, thanks negligence of the officials concerned. Abdul Sattar Hussaini, a lawmaker from Farah, told today’s session of the lower house that…
Security forces have suffered casualties and eight tanks have been destroyed as a result of an insurgent ambush in the Bala Baluk district of western Farah province. A supply convoy -- heading to Herat and Farah provinces…
Four Taliban militants have been killed in an airstrike in western Farah province, police said on Saturday, but another source said the dead included two children. Police spokesman Muhibullah Mohib said four Taliban insurgents were killed in…
A number of drug addicts in western Farah province claim police beat and force them to work in construction of trenches and subject them to other hard labor. According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and…
The Taliban have punished the resident of Khak-i-Safaid district in western Farah province who recently killed 11 people including his family members and injured six others. Haji Jummah, the administrative chief of Khak-i-Safaid district, confirmed the killing…
KABUL Resolute Support Commander Gen. Scott Miller and top Afghan security officials, including acting Defence Minister Asadullah Khalid have traveled to western Farah province to review security situation, according to a statement on Monday. “People are ready to secure their…
Farmers in western Farah province complain of low watermelon prices as one kilogram of the summer fruit accounts for only two afghanis. Ahmad Shah, a resident of Pushtroad district, told Pajhwok Afghan News he had cultivated watermelon…
Local residents and officials on Monday said dozens of civilians and security forces suffered casualties in clashes and airstrikes in Gulistan and Bakwa districts of western Farah province. Bakwa district residents said foreign troops carried out airstrikes on…
The Taliban have killed two policemen and an officer of the Special Police Force Unit in western Farah and northeastern Badakhshan provinces, officials said on Tuesday. Dadullah Qane, the Provincial Council Head, said the assailants who attacked…
The smuggling of different goods from Iran into Afghanistan via the Melak crossing continues unabated, despite the presence of security forces in the area, Pajhwok Afghan News has reliably learnt. Melak is situated close to the border…
Three soldiers have been killed and three wounded in a Taliban assault in Anar Dara district of western Farah province, said local officials on Saturday. Ghulam Hussein a resident of Anar Dara district told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
Flash flooding caused by heavy rains killed at least seven people and rendered hundreds of families homeless in western Farah province. A resident of Pusht Koh district, Jalil Ahmad, told Pajhwok Afghan News the flooding followed heavy…
Some officials, civil society activists and students in western Farah province on Thursday expressed deep concern at the dwindling culture of reading among youth, something that has spawned a variety of problems. Information and Culture Director Benyamin…
Security forces retreated from the Shebkoh district of western Farah province and currently the district control was in the hands of Taliban, the residents said on Wednesday but police rejected the claims. Hameedullah, the resident of district…
A foreign forces’ airstrike killed eleven Taliban militants, including three commanders, on the outskirts of Farah City, the capital of western Farah province, an official said on Friday. Farah police spokesman Mohibullah Mohib told Pajhwok Afghan News…
KABUL candidate in western Farah province has said all votes cast in the province had been destroyed in the October 31 helicopter crash, asking the government to re-conduct vote. On October 31, a helicopter of the Afghan National Army (ANA)…
KABUL have asked the Afghan government to give the body of Gen. Abdul Raziq’s killer to his family in return for the bodies of a helicopter crash in western Farah province. The Taliban in a statement on Friday said their…
A military general, six government officials, seven civilians and 12 security personnel killed in yesterday’s morning helicopter crash in western Farah province have been identified. The Afghan National Army (ANA) helicopter crashed into a mountain in Khak-i-Safid…
The Taliban on Tuesday denied kidnapping 18 voters and killing two others in western Farah province after local residents alleged so. Local residents accused the Taliban of killing two people and kidnapping 18 others over voting in…
