updated Wed. March 13, 2024
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Petra News Agency
March 17, 2018
Amman, March 16 (Petra)-- At least four Daesh terrorists were killed in a U.S. airstrike in eastern Kunar province of Afghanistan, according to Afghan Khaama news agency. It said the U.S. ... The anti-government armed groups and terrorist organizations, including Daesh have not commented regarding the report so far.
The Nation.
March 16, 2018
A US army mortar team in Afghanistan's Kunar Province, July 19, 2009. ... Rare exceptions are moments when our government asks us to mourn US service members like Navy SEAL William “Ryan” Owens, killed in an abortive raid President Trump ordered in Yemen in early 2017 in which children alsoÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 16, 2018
Advance notifications have been received of two new cases of wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1), one occurring in Kunar province, and one in Kandahar ... In response to recent cases, the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) recently announced the cVDPV2 outbreak ongoing in theÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 15, 2018
ASADABAD (Pajhwok): Local security officials on Thursday said Pakistani forces once again fired at least 83 mortars into different areas of eastern Kunar province. Police spokesman, Farid ... of Afghanistan info-icon over the past several years, but the Afghan government is yet to take the matter serious.
Daily Sabah
March 10, 2018
... Gawar Bati, and Ushojo – both Indo-Aryan languages – are spoken by less than 15,000 people in parts of Chitral and Kunar province in Afghanistan, ... The main opposition left-wing Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), led by a Sindhi leader, former President Asif Zardari, could manage to form a government inÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 9, 2018
He fled Afghanistan to Pakistan after the Sawr Revolution in 1978 and returned to Shegal area in Kunar province to fight the then Soviet troops. Following ... Fahim was defense minister during the interim government under Hamid Karzai and at that time, he was entitled as Afghanistan's Marshal. “He wadÃâà...
The Diplomat
March 9, 2018
First, on March 7 a drone strike in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province killed 21 suspected militants. Shortly afterward, the U.S. ... All the three leaders – Fazlullah, Wali aka Khorasani, and Bagh – are wanted by the Pakistani government, with Fazlullah on top of the list. The March 7 drone strike in theÃâà...
Arkansas Online
March 9, 2018
The government ordered a state of emergency Tuesday and later shut down popular social media networks, saying they were being used to spread false rumors ... The intelligence officials said Fazlullah was apparently not there at the time of the strike in Afghanistan's Kunar province, miles away from theÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 9, 2018
He fled Afghanistan to Pakistan after the Sawr Revolution in 1978 and returned to Shegal area in Kunar province to fight the then Soviet troops. Following ... Fahim was defense minister during the interim government under Hamid Karzai and at that time, he was entitled as Afghanistan's Marshal. “He wadÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
March 8, 2018
... official in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad while 27 Taliban fighters died in a US drone attack in Kunar province that lies in the country's northeast. ... border with Pakistan, is a volatile province which has become one of the main bases for ISIS militants who fight both the government and the Taliban.
FederalNewsRadio.com
March 8, 2018
The intelligence officials said Fazlullah was apparently not there at the time of the strike in Afghanistan's Kunar province, miles away from Pakistani border ... There was also no immediate comment from NATO, Afghan authorities or the government in Pakistan where Afghan Ambassador Omar Zakhilwal metÃâà...
Arab News
March 7, 2018
For several years, Daesh was able to attract many men in eastern Nangarhar and adjacent Kunar province by paying them hundreds of dollars per month, said ... Saleh Mohammed Saleh, an MP from Kunar, told Arab News: “It's the government's responsibility to create job opportunities for the people.”
New York Times
March 7, 2018
The summer before, her village had been overrun by Islamic State militants; her family fled and then returned in the fall once government forces drove them out. ... Shawkat Noorgali, 11, lost his hand two years ago in Kunar province when he touched a wire that was attached to an unexploded I.E.D. on hisÃâà...
Arab News
March 2, 2018
Hajji Amanullah, left, with some of his men in Shaygal district, Kunar province. .... weak compared with the Taliban and, after years of behind the scenes talks, it signed a peace agreement with the Afghan government in September 2016, less than two months before Donald Trump's election as US president.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
February 28, 2018
But in Kunar, locals remain insistent that there is a serious need for a dedicated prison. Provincial council member Rohina Meshwanai said that she had received many complaints from local women on precisely this matter. She added, “We've shared this issue with central government and we're hoping theÃâà...
Geo News, Pakistan
February 27, 2018
PESHAWAR: The kidnapping of deputy governor of Afghanistan's Kunar province from Peshawar has turned out to be a farce, official sources said Monday, after his brother uncovered the ... Pakistan has informed the Afghan government that the 'missing' official was actually hiding in Kabul, sources added.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 18, 2018
Apart from government officials, a number of civilians also visited the exhibition and appreciated the provincial Agriculture and Livestock Department's achievements. They urged provincial officials to find market for local goods. Janat Gul Fida, a visitor, told Pajhwok Afghan News that such exhibitions wereÃâà...
The Guardian
February 13, 2018
A US marine and his interpreter are seen during a lull in the fighting at Seray Combat Outpost in Chowkay district, Kunar province. ... To be sure, other interpreters have been able to reach the UK, but only by claiming asylum, in the face of fierce opposition by the government; it was the courts who haveÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 10, 2018
Local officials said Pakistan has fired more than 5,000 rockets at Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan in the past six months, forcing hundreds of families ... The displaced families have appealed to aid organizations to help them and they have also called on government to find a way to end this onslaught.
TOLOnews
February 6, 2018
According to Afghan government, Pakistan military has fired at least 5,000 rockets on Afghanistan during the past six months. The rocket shelling has displaced at least 300 families. One day after the visit of the Pakistani delegation to Kabul, at least 150 rockets landed in four districts of Kunar province,Ãâà...
TOLOnews
February 4, 2018
This comes after Pakistan ramped up its missile attacks on the eastern regions of Afghanistan in the past few days. Four civilians from the same family, among them women and children, were wounded in these missile attacks, said an Afghan government official in Dangam district of Kunar province.
New York Times
February 3, 2018
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — At least 11 soldiers, including an army captain, were killed and 13 others were injured Saturday when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a highly guarded army base in northern Pakistan, officials said. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, one of theÃâà...
Defense One
January 31, 2018
In 2004, I traveled with a team of Green Berets through gorgeous, flowering poppy fields to meet with the elders of various villages in Kunar province. “The government in Kabul wants you to plant wheat” was high on the list of the soldiers' talking points. During the meeting, one of the elders duly declared,Ãâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
The Taliban have yet to show any interest in a comprehensive peace offer made recently by the Afghan government. .... And in neighboring Kunar Province, officials said the Taliban had loaded explosives onto a donkey and detonated them when the animal reached a police check post, wounding twoÃâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Youths, especially in Achin district, are supporting Afghan security forces due to government awareness programs," Attaullah Khogyani, a Nangarhar governor ... Reports about IS recruitment in eastern Nangarhar province emerge amid similar claims of the militant group in neighboring Kunar province.
Financial Express
December 31, 1999
No comments have been received from the anti-government armed militant and terrorist groups including the IS in connection with the report, by far. ... militants affiliated with the terror outfit Islamic State (IS) terrorist group have been killed in the US drone strikes in Afghanistan's eastern Kunar province.
