Provinces

AT-KABUL: At least two passengers were killed and three others injured in eastern Laghman province, when a car crashed into a truck on Kabul-Jalalabad highway on Sunday morning, an official said. “The deadly head-on collision took place today (Sunday) morning at 5:30am in Kas area of Qarghaee district of Laghman province,” …

AT-KABUL: At least 15 Taliban fighters, suspected of planning and carrying out suicide attacks, have been detained by Afghan security forces in southern Kandahar province, an official source said on Saturday. The 15 fighters included would-be suicide bombers, attack planners and bomb-makers who were working in three separate groups in …

AT-KABUL: Twelve Daesh (Islamic State) terrorists were killed and 21 others injured after a bomb they were placing went off in the eastern Nangarhar province, military official said Monday. “The Daesh terrorists were placing the bomb in a busy marketplace in the Achin district,” the Selab 201 military corps said …

AT-KABUL: Taliban released the 11 civilians they had taken hostage in the northern Sar-e-Pul province, an official said Saturday. Taliban dragged these people out of a bus and took them last week in the Sayyad district. They were travelling to the provincial capital which is also called Sar-e-Pul. “They were …

AT-KABUL: Afghan army targeted a group of Daesh fighters in eastern Nangarhar province of the country and killed five of its fighters, the military’s press office in eastern Afghanistan said on Friday. The operation was carried out last night in Achin district of the province, the press office for Selab …

AT-KABUL: At least five civilians were killed and nine others wounded in southeastern Paktika province on Monday morning, said officials. Paktika Governor’s spokesman Nabi Peerkhil said that a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-packed vest inside a bakery at around 10:30 am in Yahya Khil district. He said that five civilians …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said its operatives arrested seven terrorists in the southeastern Logar province. “Intelligence operatives arrested the rebels in a joint operation with national army and police in Azra district,” it said in a statement. Three caches of ammunitions were seized in the district, in …

AT Monitoring Desk-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) operatives have arrested two insurgents before they plant landmines in southern Kandahar province, the NDS said. A statement issued here by the NDS the other day, stated that the militants were identified as Saleh Mohammad son of Sayed Mohammad from Kandahar …

AT-KABUL: At least 10 Taliban insurgents were killed and 32 other injured in an operation launched by the security forces in the north-eastern province of Badakhshan, officials said Saturday. “The operation was launched in Tagab district,” said Naveed Ferotan, provincial spokesman. “Two Taliban commanders Qari Abdul Baset resident of Badakhshan …

AT-KABUL: The National Directorate of Security (NDS) has detained a six-member Taliban group, including two suicide bombers, in eastern Nangarhar province. The spy agency said on Monday that out of the six militants, two were suicide bombers, already prepared to carry out suicide attacks in Jalalabad, the capital city of …