Civilians and Taliban have suffered casualties as a result of airstrikes in northern Balkh province, sources said on Thursday. Local officials and residents claimed four civilians were killed and eight others wounded during a strike in the main…
Afghan National Army (ANA) commando personnel have freed five security force members from a Taliban-run prison in northern Kunduz province, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Monday. Fawad Aman, spokesman for MoD, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
Ulema Council members and dozens of women in northern Faryab province on Monday protested against the provincial intelligence chief who they said raided civilian houses at midnight and arrested several women, children and men. The protestors said that…
KABUL figures during raids in central Maidan Wardak province, the spy service said on Sunday. In a statement, the National Directorate of Security (NDS) said raids on militant hideouts were conducted in Ahmadkhel and Mohammad Noorkhel villages of Jalrez district.…
A three-member Taliban group involved in the target killing has been banished during a raid in southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Thursday. Deputy Police Chief Masood Babakarkhel, told Pajhwok Afghan News that Special Forces have carried…
KABUL prison in southern Zabul province, an official said on Thursday. Nasrat Rahimi, spokesman for the Ministry of interior, wrote in his Facebook page that security forces raided a Taliban-run jail in Nawbahar distric. At least 28 civilians, including 12…
More than 20 Taliban insurgents were killed in a special operation and in an airstrike in Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province within 24 hours, an official said Monday. Attaullah Khogyani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
At least 34 Taliban have been killed during an operation in the Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official claimed on Monday. Afghan Special Forces conducted the operation in the Azra area of the district late on…
Four militants including Taliban’s finance chief for the Mohammad Agha district of central Logar province have been detained, an official said on Monday Mohammad Saleem Saleh, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News the National Directorate of security…
Afghan Special Forces killed three civilians during a raid on a home in the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, witnesses said on Friday. One of the witnesses told Pajhwok Afghan News on the condition of anonymity that the…
Two Taliban commanders and three civilians have been killed in an Afghan Special Forces operation in the Lalpura district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Sunday. The operation was launched in the Beli area of the…
A Swedish non-government organization on Wednesday said international troops were almost certainly involved in a military raid that led to the killing of three people after being taken away from a clinic in central Maidan Wardak province. Jorgen…
Afghan special security forces have killed two civilians and arrested as many others in southeastern Khost province, an official said on Saturday. Governor Hukam Khan Habibi confirmed the shooting of two civilians in security forces raid which…
