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KSrelief Continues Distributing Ramadan Food Baskets in Kandahar, Afghanistan
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has continued, for the 16th day in a row, the distribution of Ramadan food baskets, weighing 7 tons and 869 kg, in Kandahar of Afghanistan. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by the (...)

22 - 05 - 2019
Police official: 4 officers killed in southern Afghanistan
An Afghan official says at least four police officers have been shot to death in southern Helmand province. According to AP, Gen. Aqa Noor Kentoz, provincial police chief, said Saturday that all four had been killed the night before at a checkpoint (...)

06 - 05 - 2017
Police official: 4 officers killed in southern Afghanistan
An Afghan official says at least four police officers have been shot to death in southern Helmand province. According to AP, Gen. Aqa Noor Kentoz, provincial police chief, said Saturday that all four had been killed the night before at a checkpoint (...)

06 - 05 - 2017
Afghan official: 7 killed in a suicide attack
An Afghan official says at least seven people were killed when a suicide bomber attacked Afghan soldiers in southern Helmand province. According to AP, Omer Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor in Helmand, said Saturday that 22 others were (...)

11 - 02 - 2017
Gunmen kill five female airport staff in Kandahar
Five female Afghan guards working in the airport in southern Kandahar were killed by unknown gunmen as they were on their way to work, security officials said on Saturday, the latest in a string of attacks against women in Afghanistan. From bomb (...)

18 - 12 - 2016
Breakaway Taliban faction names new leader in Afghanistan
A breakaway Taliban faction in Afghanistan has appointed a new leader for the group, the nephew of the faction's longtime leader who was killed in fighting with rivals last year. The development reflects the complex layers of the insurgency in (...)

17 - 08 - 2016
‘Taliban closing in on key city in south Afghanistan'
Afghan troops are being deployed to the capital of the key southern province of Helmand amid intense fighting with the Taliban in surrounding areas and fears the city could fall to the insurgents within days, officials said on Wednesday. According (...)

11 - 08 - 2016
Taliban attacks kill 24 police in two days
Taliban attacks on a district in the southern Afghan province of Helmand province killed at least 24 police officers over the past two days, an Afghan official said on Sunday. Kareem Atal, the director of Helmand's provincial council, said that (...)

01 - 08 - 2016
Taliban insurgents capture key district in Helmand
An important district in Afghanistan's southern poppy-growing province of Helmand has fallen under Taliban control after heavy fighting that killed around 17 police and wounded up to 10 others, an official said on Saturday. The director of Helmand's (...)

31 - 07 - 2016
Taliban step up attacks, seize 60 bus passengers
The Taliban on Tuesday ambushed a series of buses and cars in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, forcing people out of the vehicles and abducting around 60 passengers, an Afghan official said. The insurgents later said they released all but 27 (...)

22 - 06 - 2016
Afghan forces battle to push Taliban from southern highway
Afghan security forces have been battling to push back Taliban fighters seeking to cut off the capital of the southern province of Uruzgan, officials said on Sunday as army units worked to clear roadside bombs from the main highway into the (...)

02 - 05 - 2016
Afghan forces battle to push Taliban from southern highway
Afghan security forces have been battling to push back Taliban fighters seeking to cut off the capital of the southern province of Uruzgan, officials said on Sunday as army units worked to clear roadside bombs from the main highway into the (...)

02 - 05 - 2016
Fight with Taliban kills 15 security troops in Afghanistan
A late night gun battle with the Taliban killed at least 15 members of the Afghan security forces in the volatile southern Uruzgan province, an official said on Wednesday. The fighting took place late Tuesday during an operation to reopen an (...)

31 - 03 - 2016
Afghan official: Fight with Taliban kills 15 security troops
At least 15 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed in a gunbattle with the Taliban in volatile southern Uruzgan province, an official said on Wednesday, AP Reported . The fighting took place late Tuesday night during an operation to (...)

30 - 03 - 2016
Afghan official: Attack in south kills 8 policemen
An Afghan official said overnight attacks by the Taliban on two police checkpoints in the south killed at least eight policemen, AP reported. Col. Almas Kahn, deputy police chief in Helmand province, said on Monday that the attack happened in the (...)

28 - 03 - 2016
Taliban kill 10 Afghan policemen in insider attack
A rogue Afghan policeman drugged and then shot dead 10 of his colleagues in the country's volatile south early Tuesday, officials said, the second insider attack on police in just over a week. The Taliban infiltrator then stole their weapons and (...)

27 - 01 - 2016
Desertions deplete Afghan forces, adding to security worries
Afghan Lieutenant Amanullah said he was ready to fight to the death to stop the Taliban making gains across the south of the country, where insurgents have already overrun a series of districts in their traditional heartland. In November, 15 months (...)

19 - 01 - 2016
Besieged Afghan forces battle to flush out Taliban in key district
Military planes have air-dropped food and ammunition to besieged Afghan forces battling to flush out Taliban insurgents from Sangin, officials said Tuesday, two days after the emboldened militants stormed the strategic opium-growing (...)

23 - 12 - 2015
Afghan official: Taliban overrun district in Helmand
An Afghan official says insurgents have overrun a strategic district in the southern province of Helmand, delivering a serious blow to government forces, AP reported. Mohammad Jan Rasulyar, deputy governor of Helmand, said on Monday that Taliban (...)

21 - 12 - 2015
Afghan forces battle Taliban a day after insurgents kill at least 18 at airport
Afghan security forces were fighting Taliban in the southern city of Kandahar on Wednesday, a day after the insurgents raided the city's sprawling airport, killing at least 18 people and taking six people hostage, Reuters quoted an official. There (...)

09 - 12 - 2015
Afghan official: Suicide car bomber kills 1 soldier
An Afghan official says a suicide car bombing targeting a government compound in the south of the country has killed one soldier and wounded four others, AP reported. Samim Khopalwaq, the spokesman for the governor of Kandahar province, says the (...)

19 - 11 - 2015
Afghan official: Insurgents kill 29 border police
Taliban insurgents overran two checkpoints in southern Helmand province and killed 29 border police officers, a provincial official said. According to AP, Bashir Ahmad Shakir, a provincial council member in Helmand province, said on Wednesday that (...)

14 - 10 - 2015
Afghan official: Roadside bombs kill 3, wound 15 in south
An Afghan official says roadside bombs have struck two vehicles filled with passengers, killing three people and wounding 15 in a volatile southern province, AP reported. Mohammad Mayan, spokesman for the governor of Uruzgan province, said Tuesday (...)

16 - 06 - 2015
Taliban attack on district in southern Afghanistan kills 7
An Afghan official says that a Taliban attack on a district headquarter in southern Uruzgan province has killed at least seven people. Abdul Kareem Karimi, chief administrative official in Khas Uruzgan district, says that five police officers, a (...)

18 - 05 - 2015
Afghan doctor: 3 dead in suicide attack on police station
A suicide bomber attacked a police station in the provincial capital of Afghanistan's southern Helmand province, killing three people, AP quoted a doctor at a local hospital that received the bodies as saying Monday. Provincial police chief Gen. (...)

20 - 04 - 2015
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