Taliban militants have captured parts of Sheberghan city, capital of Jawzjan province, local officials confirmed Saturday evening. According to sources, the Taliban seized control of the provincial governor’s office, police headquarters, the provincial headquarters of the National Directorate of Security (NDS), and Jawzjan prison. On Saturday evening, clashes between the Afghan National Defense and Security (ANDSF) and the insurgents were […]

Military officials are to review the rejected relocation bid of an Afghan translator after the Daily Mail provided crucial documents in his favour. Latif Hottak, 36, was denied the right to come to the UK because the Ministry of Defence said he had been dismissed from his job as an interpreter in January 2011. But salary records handed to the […]

The hourslong raid, which killed eight people, targeted a top military official’s home near Kabul’s fortified green zone. The Taliban claimed responsibility on Wednesday for an attack on the home of a top military official in Kabul that killed eight people, highlighting the insurgents’ ability to strike in the heart of the Afghan capital as they continue their sweeping military […]

The insurgents are making gains, but a band of government troops and local fighters are hitting back A government Humvee billows thick black smoke in a residential street of Afghanistan’s third-largest city and cultural capital Herat, marking the site of an inner-city front line. Gun shots are fired intermittently and A-29 attack aircraft rumble through the sky overhead, as the […]

Gul Ahmad Noorzad, a Nimroz MP, confirmed Thursday morning that the Kang district of the province fell to the Taliban overnight. Noorzad said about 30 security personnel were killed, wounded or taken hostage by the Taliban. He said the local administration and security officials knew about the attack but failed to take proactive steps to get reinforcements into the area. […]

Former first vice president, Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum said on Thursday that Taliban have accelerated their efforts to seize control of at least one province in the country. According to Dostum, Herat, Takhar, Jawzjan, Kandahar, and Helmand are the provinces of choice that the Taliban is hoping to have control over. However, security forces and uprising forces have repelled attacks […]

U.S. and Afghan airstrikes hit Taliban targets overnight in southern Helmand province in an effort to dislodge the insurgents after they captured much of the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah, officials said Wednesday. The United Nations and Human Rights Watch asked both sides to take care to prevent civilian casualties as the fighting rages on. The Taliban have waged a […]

The former police chief of Kandahar and a member of the High Council of the National Reconciliation (HCNR), Tadin Khan, on Wednesday stated that the Taliban “does not believe in human rights,” saying the group has killed potentially up to 900 people in Kandahar province in the past month and a half. Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a statement saying […]

The Taliban have taken over a TV station in Afghanistan’s strategic Helmand province, a source at the TV and radio station told CNN on Monday, marking the latest of a series of advances by the militant group in the country. The Helmand TV station, located in the city of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, is operated by state-run […]

“I don’t think we have quite come to the idea of a peacekeeping force in Afghanistan,” said T.S. Tirumurti, the Indian UN ambassador. UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) — The Security Council is not considering a peacekeeping force in Afghanistan although the situation in the country is a matter of grave concern in light of the abrupt withdrawal of U.S. […]