Archive for January 18th, 2021

NDS facility attack ends, all 3 assailants killed

Four Taliban assailants were killed after they stormed a vehicles repair workshop of the National Directorate of Security (NDS) in southern Kandahar province on Saturday.

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Taliban deny preventing NFP in some districts

Some sources claim the Taliban are not allowing the National Food Program (NFP) to be implemented in the Jalrez district of central MaidanWardak province and Talak and Shahrak districts of Ghor province, a claim the rebels reject as baseless.

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Fuel prices rise by 10pc in Kabul market

Prices of fuel, firewood, Russian gold and ghee increased during the outgoing week in Kabul, market sources said on Saturday. A worker of Hashimi fuel station in Taimani Square said the price of one litre of petrol rose from 36afs to 40afs and the same quantity of diesel from 38afs to 43afs.

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5 Taliban killed in Laghman drone attack

Five Taliban have been killed in an airstrike in eastern Laghman province while an individual who planned attack on security forces arrested in eastern Nangarhar province, an official and a statement said on Sunday.

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Guns For Hire: Tribal Mercenaries Turn A Profit In The Afghan Borderlands

Abid has found an unlikely combat role in a country where most such jobs are taken up by the Afghan security forces and the Taliban as fighting between the two sides continues.

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‘There Is No Safe Area’: In Kabul, Fear Has Taken Over

A new wave of violence and a growing uncertainty about the country’s future have left Afghans in the capital with a constant sense of fear. In Kabul’s uncertain present, fear and dread intertwine in a vise. Fear has become a way of life.

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Gunmen Kill 2 Female Judges in Kabul

Ghani, addressing the Taliban, said: “Terror, crime and violence are not the solutions to the problem.” Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle in Kabul around 830am on Sunday, Kabul police reported, and two female judges of the Supreme Court were killed and two other people–the driver and another female–were wounded in the attack, according to the Presidential Palace.

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Taliban blamed as two female judges shot dead in Afghanistan

Gunmen shot dead two female Afghan judges working for the Supreme Court in an ambush in the country’s capital on Sunday, officials said, an attack that the top US envoy in Kabul blamed on the Taliban. Violence has surged across Afghanistan in recent months despite ongoing peace talks between the Taliban and government – especially in Kabul, where a new […]

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Two Afghan female Supreme Court judges shot dead in Kabul car ambush

Gunmen shot dead two Afghan women judges working for the Supreme Court during an early morning ambush in the country’s capital Sunday, officials said, as a wave of assassinations continues to rattle the nation.

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Army Commander Says Troop Drawdown Will Not Impact Security

The commander of the Afghan Army’s 111 Division says there is “no concern” about foreign forces withdrawal. An army commander on Sunday said that the Taliban is trying to “conduct terrorist activities” in areas near the capital city but pledged they will be prevented.

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