Provinces

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Emboldened by the silence of security officials, bandits have started looting of passengers on the Gardez-Khost highway, not far from police checkpoints, drivers complained. According to a report of Radio Azadi, robbery cases have drastically increased on the Gardez-Khost highway irking both passengers and drivers but the …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) on Tuesday said that an ammunition cache used by the enemies of the country, was discovered and confiscated in the northern Balkh province. In a statement, the NDS said the cache included 395 remote controls, 395 meters of explosives wire, 15 roadside bombs, …

AT-KABUL: At least six people “all of them civilians” were killed and two others received injuries after their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in eastern Nangarhar province, provincial official said on Sunday. A woman and a child were also among the dead in the attack that took place in Pachiragam …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: Failure of the relevant authorities to combat rampant abductions in Jawzjan province has irked the residents calling for massive crackdowns against the kidnapping rings. Scores of Jawzjan residents on Friday said that rampant kidnapping in Sheberghan, the provincial capital, has made their life miserable. They said that …

AT-KABUL: A top commander of the Taliban insurgents was killed during an operation in central Wardak province, ministry of interior said Saturday. In a statement, the ministry said the insurgent commander was identified as Lal Zada also known as Farooq, who was killed during a special operation conducted in Ismail …

AT-KABUL: Five Kandahar airport female workers and their driver were shot death by unknown gunmen in the capital of southern Kandahar province on Saturday, provincial officials said. Provincial governor spokesman, Samim Khpolwak confirmed the incident, saying that the attack occurred in Khwaja Manda locality of the police district 4. The …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said Sunday its operatives arrested three Pakistani terrorists before they joined the loyalists of Daesh (Islamic States of Iraq and Syria) in the eastern Kunar province. The agency said in a statement the arrested terrorists were identified as Hazifa S/O Fatah, Hamza S/O …

AT-KABUL: A powerful Taliban truck bomb targeted the German consulate in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province late on Thursday night, killing at least five people and wounding more than 120, official sources told Afghanistan Times. The attack which the Taliban called it a “revenge” for US air strikes in the volatile …

AT-KABUL: Four Taliban insurgents including a commander were killed and one another wounded by their own bomb explosion in the northern Kunduz province, security officials said Monday. The provincial police said in a statement that the insurgents were busy making mines while mines blow up in Dasht-e-Archi district killed four …

AT-KABUL: Two militants of the Lashkar-e-Islami, a terrorist group mostly active around the Khyber agency, Pakistan’s federally administered tribal area were arrested during an operation in eastern Nangarhar province, security officials said Sunday. In a statement the provincial police said the two suspects were arrested in the Achin district where …