KABUL (Pajhwok): The intelligence agency says security forces have discovered two caches of weapons and ammunition belonging to warlord Alipur in the Behsud district of central Maidan Wardak province. Light and heavy weapons, a military motorcycle, cameras, grenades, thousands of…
CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): Security officials say 49 Kalashnikovs, a machinegun, a RPG-7 rocket, a grenade launcher and some ammunition were seized in the capital of central Parwan province. Qari Yasir, deputy Parwan intelligence chief, said that the weapons and ammunition were…
Security forces have discovered and destroyed a huge cache of weapons in central Maidan Wardak province, the Ministry of Defence said on Monday.
KABUL in Marja district of southern Helmand province. A statement from the NDS received by Pajhwok Afghan News said that Afghan Special Forces launched an operation in Marja district of Helmand. The source said that a narcotics factory belonged to…
KABUL (Pajhwok): The Ministry of Interior on Sunday said only those individuals and companies who are registered as taxpayers with the Ministry of Finance would be allowed to carry weapons. A MoI statement received by Pajhwok Afghan News said thousands…
KABUL (Pajhwok): Intelligence operatives detected and seized “a center of Daesh (Islamic State)” with link to the bloody attack on the Afghan National Army’s 111th military corps unit in Kabul, an official claimed on Tuesday. A source in the National…
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Nangarhar police on Wednesday submitted 132 weapons they had confiscated during operations and clashes with militants to the Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) program officials. Governor Gulab Mangal said police had recovered 132 weapons of different kinds…
KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Afghan intelligence forces discovered a major weapons depot in southeastern Khost province, an official said Wednesday. The depot was discovered in a forest area of Musakhel district on Tuesday, Gen. Barakatullah Samkani, provincial National Directorate of Security…
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): At least 152 weapons and thousands of bullets have been recovered from a trailer carrying cement in eastern Nangarhar province imported from neighboring Pakistan, intelligence officials said on Wednesday. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) personnel showed the…
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Border police recovered 12 weapons from a truck bringing refugee families from Pakistan in Torkham border town in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Saturday. Nangarhar governor’s spokesman, Attuallah Khogyani, told Pajhwok Afghan News that 11 pistols…
TALOQAN (Pajhwok): Four police officers have been arrested on the charge of stealing weapons from the Kafgan district police station in northeastern Takhar province, an official said on Saturday. Police spokesman Maj. Abdul Khalil Aseer told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
KABUL on Sunday expressed concern over keeping weapons in schools and demanded disclosure of a private school in Kabul, where arms were found. On May 9, police recovered nine different weapons, a large number of Kalashnikov bullets, bombs, explosives, a…
MEHMOOD RAQI (Pajhwok): The governor on Tuesday said the Taliban received 90 percent of weapons and ammunition from their sources in police in central Kapisa province, but the police chief rejected the figures. Governor Asadullah Hashimi told a gathering held…
KABUL and was supplying weapons to the group. The influential former jihadi leader told a press conference in the western city of Herat that weapons were being supplied to the insurgents from across the border in Turkmenistan, citing reports he…
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Police in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday handed over 180 weapons they had seized during various operations to the Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) program officials. The weapons were submitted to DIAG officials at a ceremony attended…
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Six insurgents have been detained with weapons and explosives in southern Kandahar and Paktika provinces, an official said on Sunday. The security forces conducted night raids in the Maiwand district of Kandahar and captured eight motorcycles, three…
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): One hundred and eighteen pistols were on Saturday handed over the Disarmament of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) programme in southern Kandahar province, an official said. The pistols, including 16 Makarov’s and 102 TT brand, had been confiscated by…
GHAZNI CITY (Pajhwok): An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier who was kidnapped by militants managed to gun down six of his abductors before being killed in retaliatory fire in southern Ghazni province, officials said on Sunday. Nazifullah Sultani, the 203rd…
HERAT CITY/MAZAR-I-SHARIF/JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A six-member insurgent group joined the peace process in western Herat province and 43 weapons have been seized in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said. In northern Balkh province, police said they had detained a would-be suicide bomber…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (Pajhwok): Police seized 40 weapons from a truck carrying commercial goods from Pakistan in northern Baghlan province, an official said on Saturday. The seizure came before noon in Shamraq locality on the Baghalan-Kunduz highway, provincial police chief Brig. Gen.…
ASADABAD (Pajhwok): At least 22 militants were killed as security forces repulsed an attack in eastern Kunar province, bordering Pakistan’s tribal region of Bajaur, an official claimed on Thursday. The insurgents encountered a strong reaction from the soldiers after they…
KHOST CITY (Pajhwok): Security forces have launched a massive drive to collect illegal weapons in southeastern Khost province, the police chief said on Monday. Brig. Gen. Faizullah Ghairat said this while releasing a large number of weapons police had seized…
TARINKOT (Pajhwok): Militants gunned down a man and injured his wife in the Khas Uruzgan district of central Uruzgan province, an official said on Tuesday. The incident occurred at around 3: 00pm in Nakrozo area of the district, the town’s…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (Pajhwok): Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) officials on Wednesday said it had discovered 2,400 depots of weapons and 11,000 different kinds of arms in northern Afghanistan. DIAG chief for the northern zone, Gen Abdul Manan, told Pajhwok Afghan…
