Security forces have seized 26 different weapons and ammunition during a search operation in the capital of eastern Nangarhar province. A spokesman for the Khalid bin Waleed Corps in the east, Maulvi Wahidullah Mohammadi, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Residents of capital Kabul on Sunday said the ongoing search operation was a good step towards maintaining security and that they were satisfied with the behavior of security forces, while some others were unsatisfied and said only suspected…
The government has launched a clearing operation in Kabul and other nearby provinces, saying no civilians or homes would be harmed and people would be treated well. Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate, said forces from…
One Taliban security official and eight ‘enemies’ have been killed during an operation in central Panjsher province, an official said on Thursday. Deputy police chief for central Panjsher province said the operation was carried out in Doabi area…
National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Wednesday said many insurgents affiliated with Daesh or Islamic State (IS) and Taliban have been killed in an operation in Sabari district of Khost province, while the Taliban claim those killed were civilian including children.
The security forces have been directed to resume operations against the militants plotting attacks against them The acting defence minister issued the orders on on Thursday, saying there had been no decline in attacks by the enemy. Asadullah…
KABUL sustained heavy casualties in airstrikes in Jaghato district of central Maidan Wardak province, but some sources said civilians were also among the casualties. Maidan Wardak provincial council secretary Abdul Wahid Akbarzoi said 20 Taliban rebels were killed in the…
Local officials on Tuesday said Afghan forces have recaptured two strategic locations after a year in the outskirts of Maimana, capital of northwestern Faryab province. Abdul Karim Yourish, Faryab police spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News that Kata Qala…
KABUL. The Presidential Palace in a statement received by Pajhwok Afghan News said the Taliban announced their offensive at a time when the Afghan government had accelerated its efforts for peace to end the ‘imposed’ war on the Afghans. “Taliban…
Hundreds of students could not sit the university entrance test from Charkh district of central Logar province due to an ongoing operation against the Taliban in the district, residents and local officials claim. The entry test in Logar…
Local officials on Tuesday said at least 18 Taliban insurgents have been killed and a number of others arrested during ground and air operation in southern Ghazni province, but the Taliban rejected the claim. Ghazni governor’s spokesman,…
At least 25 Taliban fighters have been killed and many of their hideouts destroyed by Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police forces in Arighistan district of southern Kandahar province, officials said on Wednesday. Imam Nazar Bahbod,…
Fourteen Taliban militants have been killed and seven others wounded during ongoing operations in the Nijrab district of central Kapisa province, an official said on Wednesday. Nijrab local police commander Abdul Sabor Safi told Pajhwok Afghan News…
At least 10 opium selling shops were torched and one suspect detained during a Special Forces operation in southern Helmand province, an official said Sunday. Omar Zwak, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that NDS 03 unit…
Thirty-seven Taliban militants have been killed and 10 others wounded during ground and air operations in the Mohammad Agha district of central Logar province, an official said on Tuesday. Police spokesman Shahpur Ahmadzai told Pajhwok Afghan News 20…
A military operation would be launched soon to drive militants from the Gardez-Paktika highway in Zurmat district of southeastern Paktia province, officials said Thursday. The highway has been under Taliban control over the past several years. The route…
Twelve militants have been killed and injured during Special Forces operation in the Khanabad district of northern Kunduz province, a statement from the governor house said on Thursday. During the operation the Hodkhel, Joy-e-Khuna and Zard Kamar…
Residents of central Uruzgan province are complaining that the ongoing operation in their province has not been productive and instead created problems for them. Dozens of people, who had gathered in front of the governor’s house in Tirinkot,…
Several areas surrounding Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, would be cleared of Taliban insurgents during an operation to be launched soon, the police chief said Thursday. Brig Gen. Abdul Ghafar Safi told a press conference here…
Several civilians have suffered casualties and financial losses in an operation in the Sherzad district of eastern Nangarhar province, residents claimed on Wednesday. Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the Afghan Special Forces’ Unit “02”…
The administrative chief for southwestern Faryab province on Sunday said 62 villages of three districts had been cleared of militants during the Navid-8 operation. Addressing a press conference, Mohammad HamayonFawzi said Afghan security forces were able to reopen…
