Dozens of militants have surrendered in eastern Nangarhar province, the governor’s office said on Sunday. As many as 32 Islamic State (IS) and four Taliban fighters joined the government-initiated peace and reconciliation process on Saturday. In a statement,…
KABUL. Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said the job against terrorism was being done only by the US, some 7,000 miles away and the countries closer to Afghanistan were not putting up the fight. “At a certain…
Nineteen Daesh or so-called Islamic State (IS) rebels have been eliminated in airstrikes in the Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province, the Ministry of Defense said on Monday. A statement from the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that…
KABUL has extended an offer of joint intelligence and security investigation to countries who have been..concerned about the threat posed by Daesh National Security Advisor Mohammad Hanif Atmar presented the offer during second Kabul Process Conference in response to the…
KABUL and some other areas in the capital Kabul. On August 25, 2017, Daesh militants stormed a mosque in Qala-i-Najara area of Kabul, leaving 28 people including four policemen dead and 50 others including nine policemen wounded. An NDS official,…
At least 13 Daesh or so-called Islamic state (IS) fighters including two Uzbekistani have been killed in a NATO forces airstrike in Darzab district of northern Jawzjan province, security officials said on Sunday. Jawzjan deputy police chief, Col.…
KABUL after he allegedly joined the Islamic State or Daesh group. A media report on Tuesday said the man from Kerala, who was suspected to have joined the terror, had reportedly been killed in Afghanistan. A photograph of the body…
At least five Daesh or so-called Islamic State (IS) foreign fighters were killed during airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday. Nangarhar governor’s spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told Pajhwok Afghan News air and ground offensive had…
Four members of Daesh -- or so-called Islamic State (IS) -- were killed as a result of an operation in the eastern province of Nangarhar, an official said on Thursday. The operation was conducted in the morning in…
Five militants have been killed in new US drone strikes in different parts of the country, officials said on Saturday. Three fighters were killed by a drone-fired missile in the Khawajakhel locality of Arghandab district in southern Zabul…
At least 36 Daesh or Islamic State (IS) militants were killed in NATO airstrikes in the eastern province of Nangarhar, an official said on Friday. The airstrikes were carried out on Thursday night pounding Daesh hideouts in Haron…
A fierce firefight between Taliban and Islamic State (Daesh) fighters in the Chaparhar district of eastern Nangarhar provinceentered a fourth day on Wednesday, officials said. At least 16 militants, including a senior Taliban leader, have been killed so…
Twenty-two Daesh fighters, four Afghan security personnel and as many Taliban militants have been killed during separate clashes in two districts of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Friday. The Daesh or so-called Islamic State (IS) fighters were…
At least 15 Daesh or Islamic State fighters have been killed during ongoing security operations in Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said Thursday. Another eight Daesh gunmen were killed during the clearing operations, Nangarhar police spokesman…
KABUL had executed Islamic State or Daesh fighters who beheaded seven civilians in southern Zabul province. IS gunmen abducted the seven people, including four women and a child from Jaghori district of southern Ghazni province and decapitated them in Arghandab…
Sixty insurgents of Islamic State (IS) were killed in an airstrike in the Achin district of eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday, an official said. Police Spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashraqiwal told Pajhwok Afghan News the airstrike targeted a gathering…
