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Asharq Al-awsat English
April 18, 2018
They also destroyed documents, official said of the incident that took place in the central province of Ghor. It sparked concerns about security ... IEC officials have acknowledged that ensuring security at voter registration centers, particularly in rural areas, will be a major challenge. Afghanistan's beleagueredÃâà...
Gulf Today
April 18, 2018
KANDAHAR: An Afghan official says a bomb blast has killed five people, including a police commander, in the southern Kandahar province, an attack claimed ... a voter registration centre in Afghanistan, kidnapping five people, including three election employees, and destroying documents, officials said onÃâà...
Voice of America
April 18, 2018
A senior Afghan provincial police official was killed in an explosion Wednesday in southern Afghanistan's Kandahar province. Colonel Janan Afghan was commander of the Quick Reaction Unit (CRU) for the Kandahar border police. Officials say the explosive device was hidden in his vehicle.
TOLOnews
April 17, 2018
The officials visited Kandahar to assess the security situation in the province and said security forces are trying to ensure security is maintained at voting centers across the country. The Afghan security officials also said they would do everything possible to ensure the people's safety on election day.
Kashmir Observer
April 14, 2018
Travel by road between the capital and southern Kandahar province, a traditional Taliban heartland, is considered dangerous because of large swaths ... A lawmaker in the Afghan Parliament, Mohammad Arif Rahmani, said the district governor, intelligence service director and a deputy police official wereÃâà...
WPXI Pittsburgh
April 12, 2018
Travel by road between the capital and southern Kandahar province, a traditional Taliban heartland, is considered dangerous because of large swaths that are ..... The announcement by the maritime safety authority in the coastal province of Fujian coincided with remarks by President Xi Jinping on the importance of navalÃâà...
Los Angeles Times
April 12, 2018
The police chief spoke inside his heavily guarded compound in the center of Kandahar, capital of the eponymous province that was the birthplace of the ... People are [distancing themselves from] the government, they don't have any unity, and there is no understanding among the government [officials].".
ABC News
April 12, 2018
People stand near the bodies of district officials inside the Khuja Omari district compound after a deadly attack in Ghazni, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 12, 2018. ... Travel by road between the capital and southern Kandahar province, a traditional Taliban heartland, is considered dangerous because of largeÃâà...
Tampabay.com
April 11, 2018
Travel by road between the capital and southern Kandahar province, a traditional Taliban heartland, is considered dangerous because of large swaths that are now ... Rahmani said the district governor, intelligence service director and a deputy police official were among those killed in Thursday's attack.
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
April 4, 2018
Women in the southern province of Kandahar are still routinely being denied access to their rightful inheritance by male family members, an IWPR investigation has ... Other officials denied this was the case, with various agencies giving different figures for the number of cases being dealt with by the system.
TOLOnews
March 30, 2018
At least two Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were wounded early Saturday in Kandahar province, local officials confirmed. According to the officials the explosion occurred around 07:00 am local time when a magnetic mine placed on an army Ranger was detonated in PD10 Kandahar city. However, a source said thatÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 24, 2018
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Efforts had been accelerated to stop the imports of uncertified food items from illegal smuggling routes in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Saturday. Earlier, Pajhwok ... Officials properly check the imported food item's certificates and then forward them for tariff.
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 6, 2018
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): Thousands of teachers in southern Kandahar province have been not paid their salaries for months, negatively impacting their ... Education Department spokesman Nazar Mohammad Samimi acknowledged salaries of around 3,900 permanent teachers, officials, and 1,400Ãâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 4, 2018
KANDAHAR CITY (Pajhwok): A man shot injured his wife before turning the gun on himself in Daman district of southern Kandahar province, an official said on Saturday. Police spokesman Zia Durrani told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place in Guman village of the district. Faiz MohammadÃâà...
Xinhua
February 22, 2018
Afghan girls attend a painting class in Kandahar city, capital of Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Feb. 21, 2018. More than 70,000 girls, according to provincial officials, are currently studying in schools in Kandahar, but few of them will complete 12th grade and hence will not graduate from highÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 6, 2018
KANDARHAR CITY (Pajhwok): An unidentified gunman shot dead three police personnel in the capital of southern Kandahar province on Wednesday, an official said. A well-placed source, who did not wanted to be named, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place in the Faqeer Baba Street inÃâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
The U.S. military said Monday it carried out an airstrike that killed the northern commander of the Islamic State group's Afghan affiliate. U.S. Forces-Afghanistan said the strike Thursday in Faryab province killed Qari Hekmatullah and his bodyguard. Afghan military officials had confirmed Hekmatullah's deathÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 31, 1999
has transferred all polling stations to schools and mosques in southern Kandahar province, governor's office said on Sunday. The decision came late on Sunday at a southern zone-level meeting, which was attended by IEC representatives, as well as civilian and military officials, a statement from theÃâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Unknown armed men gunned down two local officials in the southern Kandahar province on Saturday, an official said. "Unidentified armed men opened fire on the car of Gul Mohammad Giran, the governor for Shahr-e-Safa district in Kandahar city today, killingÃâà...
The Straits Times
December 31, 1999
KANDAHAR (AFP) - A German national has been arrested with the Taleban in Afghanistan's insurgency-racked Helmand province, officials told AFP late on Wednesday (Feb 28), a rare example of a European among the insurgents. "A man with a long beard, wearing a black turban who identified himselfÃâà...
Long War Journal
December 31, 1999
The video, entitled “From the Fronts of Khakrez,” was released today on Voice of Jihad, the Taliban's official propaganda website. The Taliban described Khakrez as “one of the strategic northern districts of Kandahar province which has experienced Jihadi triumphs over the course of last and this yearÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
In the second incident, a police checkpoint in the Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province came under attack by the Taliban fighters leaving six policemen dead ... A senior Taliban official based in Doha told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that the group invites US officials to its political office in Qatar to discuss aÃâà...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
Provincial officials said the suspect would be interrogated about how he ended up with the Taliban. Omar Zwak, Helmand governor's spokesperson, told VOA the suspect was transferred to Kandahar for further investigation. An Afghan general from the 215 Corps told BBC that the suspect is in U.S militaryÃâà...
