Three people were killed and five others injured in a traffic accident on Kabul-Kandahar highway in southern Zabul province on Friday. Traffic Department Director Faridullah Safi said the accident happened in the Ahmadzai village area this morning…
Suspected Taliban gunmen killed a district Afghan Local Police (ALP) commander along with two of his guards in Shahr-i-Safa district of southern Zabul province on Thursday. The Shahr-i-Safa ALP commander was travelling on the Zabul-Kandahar when ambushed by…
KABUL militant who torched Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers’ bodies two days back. On Friday, 25 security personnel were killed in an assault on a checkpoint in Zabul province. Provincial Council Chairman Atta Jan Haq Bayan told Pajhwok Afghan News…
At least 14 militants have been killed and three others wounded during clashes with the security forces in southern Zabul and Helmand provinces, officials said on Sunday. Col. Ahmad Jan Ahmadi, an Afghan National Army (ANA) official in…
The presence of ‘ghost personnel’ in police ranks has been brought to zero in southern Zabul province after reforms, a Ministry of Interior (MoI) delegation said on Thursday. Maj. Gen. Niamatullah Haidari, head of the MoI delegation dispatched…
Two policemen and 10 Taliban insurgent have been killed in clashes in southern Zabul and central Urozgan province, officials said on Saturday. 2nd Lt Malak Zainullah, police chief of second police district of Terinkot, the provincial capital, told…
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…
NATO Gen. Miller and Army Chief Gen. Bismillah Waziri have traveled to southern Zabul province to assess the security situation, the governor’s office said on Sunday. The visiting officials discussed the security situation in Zabul during a meeting…
Five policemen have been killed and seven others injured in a Taliban attack in Surai district of southern Zabul province, a well-placed source said on Thursday. The armed rebels also damaged some police equipment before they were forced…
The residents of southern Zabul province have demanded the Independent Election Commission (IEC) and the government to increase the number of polling stations in the province in order to facilitate all people to exercise the right of vote…
At least eight Taliban insurgents and three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed during a clash in Arghandab district of southern Zabul province, officials said Wednesday. Governor’s spokesman, Gul Islam Seyal, told Pajhwok Afghan News that…
A Taliban prisoner snatched a Kalashnikov from a police guard and killed him and injured two others before making his escape good in the Shahr-i-Safa district of southern Zabul province on Sunday evening, an official said. The…
Masked gunmen shot dead the administrative chief for Shamluazi district of southern Zabul province along with his son in the capital of Kandahar province on Saturday. The gunmen in a car opened fire at the official in…
At least eight policemen have been killed during a clash in Nawbahar district of southern Zabul province, officials said Saturday. Governor’s spokesman, Gul Islam Sial, told Pajhwok Afghan News that dozens of Taliban insurgents stormed three police posts…
A Taliban assault on the Atghar district of southern Zabul province has been pushed back, but both sides have suffered heavy casualties, officials said on Tuesday. Gul Islam Siyal, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News around 300…
Taliban insurgents on Monday claimed capturing the Atghar district of southern Zabul province, but local officials rejected the assertion and said intense clashes were underway. Abdul Qayyum, the district’s administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants staged…
At least four Afghan Local Police (ALP) members have been killed by their colleagues in southern Zabul province, an official said Saturday. Amir Jan Alokozay, chief of Arghandab district of the province, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the…
At least seven Taliban militants and eight security forces have been killed in clashes in southern Kandahar and Zabul provinces, officials said on Thursday. Seven militants and two policemen were killed and nine rebels and five policemen wounded…
Three children have been killed and another two wounded during two separate incidents in Nangarhar and Zabul provinces, officials said Thursday. Attaullah Khogyani, the Nangarhar governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News a gas cylinders shop caught fire in…
At least three civilians have been killed in a bomb blast in southern Zabul province, officials said Saturday. Governor’s spokesman, Gul Islam Seyal, told Pajhwok Afghan News that the explosion happened in Juldak area of Qalat city,…
President Ashraf Ghani has accepted the resignation of Zabul governor Khial Mohammad Hussaini, a statement from the Independent Directorate of Local Governance said on Friday. The statement said the deputy governor of the southern province, Rahmatullah Yarmal, would…
The walking peace convoy from southern Helmand has reached neighboring Zabul province where nine more individuals joined the movement and started their journey to Ghazni province. Around three months back, a number of people erected a tent in…
Residents and officials of southern Zabul province say some government organs in capital Kabul are creating problems towards construction of a standard cricket stadium in Qalat, the provincial capital. Construction work on a cricket stadium in Qalat was…
A district police chief from neighboring Zabul province was killed in a Taliban gun attack in the capital of southern Kandahar province on Saturday, officials said. Gul Ahmad Grani, the Shahr-i-Safa district police chief in Zabul, came under attack…
