Officials said on Monday new border security posts have been established along the Nawa Pass route to prevent possible attacks from militants. Joint Afghan security forces have launched two days ago a search operation codenamed “Nawa Pass Spring…
Security forces launched search operation aimed at dispatching reinforcement to different security check posts by road in Sarkano district of eastern Kunar province, security officials said Friday. Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Said Khail, provincial police chief, told Pajhwok…
A recruiter for the Pakistani Taliban has been detained in eastern Kunar province, an official said on Monday. The Pakistani national was detained by a special police force in the Dangam district, Kunar police chief Abdul Habib Syedkhel…
A key road that connects Narri-Ghazabad districts in eastern Kunar province was reopened after it was blocked by militants for traffic for several days, provincial police chief said on Sunday. Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Sayedkhel told Pajhwok Afghan…
Public Health Minister Ferozuddin Feroz on Sunday visited the civil hospital in eastern Kunar province and set provincial health officials a month-long deadline to streamline their affairs. Feroz visited the main hospital in Asadabad, the provincial capital, inspected…
At least 136 militants have been killed during airstrikes and a ground offensive by the Afghan National Army (ANA) in the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province, officials said on Tuesday. Lt. Haroon Yousufzai, spokesman for the 201st…
Hundreds of residents, including women and children, remain under siege in the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province, an uprising leader said on Sunday. Eight days ago, hundreds of heavily armed insurgents, mostly Pakistanis, launched a series of…
So far at least 40 security personnel have suffered casualties in the ongoing conflict in Dangam district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Saturday. “It is a planned intelligence war underway in Dangam,” 201st Selab Military…
Senior officials on Saturday claimed Taliban. Since a week, hundreds of heavily-armed rebels have been attacking security posts established by residents spearheading an uprising against them. Leaders of the uprising said the attacks had so far left dozens…
After days of attacks, Afghan security forces on Thursday launched operations against militants in the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province, officials said. Two leaders of the uprising group were killed on Wednesday when clashes between heavily-armed militants…
Two leaders of the uprising group were killed on Wednesday when clashes between heavily-armed militants and villagers entered a fourth day in the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province, an official said. Backed by tens of Pakistani rebels,…
Five people were wounded when a mortar shell fell in front of the provincial council office in Asadabad, the capital of eastern Kunar province, on Wednesday. Jamaluddin, the council’s deputy chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the mortar shell…
As fierce clashes continued, armed insurgents on Tuesday set alight 30 houses of uprising members in the Dangam district of eastern Kunar province, officials and residents said. Local officials said about 2,000 insurgents, mostly Pakistanis, resumed their attacks…
Backed by dozens of Pakistani rebels, Taliban are fighting against residents of Dangam district of eastern Kunar province, the police chief said on Sunday. Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Sayedkhel told Pajhwok Afghan News Afghan and Pakistani insurgents launched…
One person was wounded in a bomb explosion on Saturday in Pul-i-Khumri, the capital of northern Baghlan province, an official said. Two other explosions rocked southern Kandahar and eastern Kunar provinces but caused no casualties. Javed Basharat, Baghlan…
A Taliban-designated chief for the Manogi district of eastern Kunar province was among five others killed in a US drone strike on early Saturday, the provincial police chief said. Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Syedkhel identified the slain commander…
Eighteen militants have been killed and six others wounded during separate incidents in eastern Nangarhar and Kunar provinces, officials said on Tuesday. Nangarhar governor’s spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai told Pajhwok Afghan News 12 insurgents were killed in an…
A huge fire raced through a woodworking market in the capital of eastern Kunar province on Monday, leaving dozens of shops a complete loss. The fire broke out in the afternoon in Dam village on the outskirts of…
Thirty-five militants and two policemen have been killed during separate incidents in eastern Laghman and Kunar provinces, officials said on Saturday. Laghman governor’s spokesman Sarhadi Zwak told Pajhwok Afghan News 25 militants, including three commanders, were killed and…
Two women have been wounded in a cross-border rocket attack on eastern Kunar province, an official claimed on Tuesday. Governor Shujaul Mulk told Pajhwok Afghan News that Pakistani forces had fired at least 17 rockets into Kunar since…
Police are not cooperating with the administration of eastern Kunar province in preventing timber smuggling, the acting governor alleged on Wednesday. Shujaul Mulk Jalala hit out at police attitude while showing journalists a truckload of timber his guards…
Happy over foreign troops’ withdrawal from eastern Kunar province, residents on Thursday said the insurgents were left with no excuse to continue fighting. A day earlier American troops transferred their last base to Afghan counterparts in Topchi area…
Transferring their last base to Afghan counterparts, NATO-led foreign troops have pulled out from eastern Kunar province, the provincial police chief said on Thursday. Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Syedkhel told Pajhwok Afghan News the international forces had only…
Tribal elders and religious scholars on Saturday held a gathering in eastern Kunar province, announcing their support to the new government. The gathering was organised at the provincial Governor’s House, where a large number of tribal elders and…
