Northern Sar-i-Pul province has been under huge security threat, the governor said on Saturday, asking the central government for urgent assistance to deal with the threat posed by Taliban and other insurgent groups. Speaking at a press conference…
Roads connecting Balkhab and Sancharak districts with the provincial capital of northern Sar-i-Pul province have been blocked by heavy snowing, sending essential items prices soaring, an official said Thursday. Mohammad Hussain Rejayee, a resident of Tarkhoj area of…
The Taliban are closing in on the headquarters of Sayyad district in northern Sar-i-Pul province amid an intense fighting with security forces, a public representative said on Saturday. Salahuddin Cherik, a member of the provincial council, told Pajhwok…
Local officials on Thursday said 24 Taliban militants and five security personnel had suffered casualties during offensives in northern Sar-i-Pul province. Governor Mohammad Zahir Wahdattold Pajhwok Afghan News 11 militants had been killed and 13 others wounded in…
At least 21 militants have been killed during clashes with security forces in northern Sar-i-Pul province, the governor said on Wednesday. Mohammad Zahir Wahdat told Pajhwok Afghan News the insurgents launched attacks security posts near the provincial capital,…
A policeman has been decapitated in northern Sar-i-Pul province, where four reconciled insurgents rejoined the Taliban along with their weapons, an official said on Tuesday. Sayed Naqibullah Darman, an official at the provincial police headquarters, told Pajhwok…
Taliban have captured several villages abandoned by local police in the Sayad district of northern Sar-i-Pul province, well-placed sources said on Wednesday. The governor, provincial police chief and intelligence head rushed to Sayad after western areas of the…
KABUL insurgents have been suffered casualties as many villages were cleared during an operation in Sayyad district of northern Sar-I-Pul province, an official said Wednesday. Three days earlier, the Taliban militants captured 13 villages of Sayyad district from Afghan forces.…
Sixty-two Taliban militants who shunned violence a week ago on Monday formally laid down their weapons and joined the peace process in northern Sar-i-Pul province, the governor said. Mohammad Zahir Wahdat told a ceremony welcoming the former…
A woman and two policemen were killed when Taliban attacked a police vehicle in Baghlan province and a tribal influential figure was killed in separately in Sar-i-Pul province, officials said on Saturday. Ahmad Javid Basharat, Baghlan police spokesman,…
Four people, including two children, have been killed and a fifth wounded in two separate incidents of violence in northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Monday. Zabihullah Amani, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News two…
A seven-member insurgent ground, led by Mullah Amrullah, on Tuesday handed over their weapons to join the peace process in northern Sar-i-Pul province, the governor said. Mohammad Zahir Wahdat told a ceremony welcoming the former militants in Sar-i-Pul…
Eleven Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers, including their commander, have surrendered to the Taliban in the Sozma Qala district of northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Sunday. Governor Mohammad Zahir Wahdat told Pajhwok Afghan News Commander Shah…
The governor said on Tuesday one Afghan National Army (ANA) and one public order police commander had been dismissed in northern Sar-i-Pul province. Mohammad Zahir Wahdat, the Sar-i-Pul governor, told Pajhwok Afghan News the two dismissed were ANA…
At least 41 Taliban militants and 16 security forces suffered causalities in clashes during the past 24 hours in Sancharak district of northern Sar-i-Pul province, the governor said on Sunday. Mohammad Zahir Wahdat told Pajhwok Afghan News Taliban…
Six civilians including children have been suffered causalities in two separately explosions in southern Kandahar and northern Sar-I-Pul provinces, an official said on Saturday. Governor’s spokesman, Samim Khplwak, told Pajhwok Afghan News that a roadside bomb…
Two people were burnt to death and a third was injured after an oil tanker crashed into a car near the capital of northern Sar-i-Pul province on Tuesday, an official said. The head-on collision between the tanker and…
Taliban militants on Monday shot dead a 19-year-old woman over running away from her in-laws’ home in Kohistanat district of northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said. The early morning incident took place in Bidastan locality of the district,…
At least 15 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 50 others wounded during an operation in Sayyad districts of northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Monday. Sar-I-Pul police chief, Qaum Baqizoi, told a press conference the operation…
Taliban in the Seyyad district of northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Thursday. The doctors had gone to Aho village of the district to provide treatment to local residents, the provincial government spokesman, Zabihullah Amani, told Pajhwok…
A Jamiat-i-Islami commander survived a suicide bomb attack on his vehicle but his four relatives, including two sons, were killed in northern Sar-i-Pul province on Wednesday, the first day of religious festival Eidul Fitr. The bomber’s target was…
Dozens of development projects worth 61 million afghanis have been inaugurated in northern Sar-i-Pul province under the National Solidarity Programme, benefitting more than 10,000 families, an official said on Tuesday. Rural rehabilitation and development director Eng. Ahmad…
One security man and four insurgents were killed and another three security men and seven rebels were wounded during separate clashes in northern Sar-i-Pul province, the governor said on Saturday. Mohammad Zahir Wahdat told a press conference here…
Residents living near the Shiberghan-Sar-i-Pul highway on Tuesday said some uprising commanders were forcing them into fighting alongside them against Taliban militants. Dozens of residents of Syedabad area on the outskirts of Sar-i-Pul city, the capital of northern…
