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Business Standard
April 4, 2018
The statement further acknowledged the civilian casualties caused during the airstrikes, while pointing out that the lives and property of the civilians are paramount for the government. Earlier, the United Nations also ordered a probe into the Kunduz airstrikes which claimed 50 lives and injured 150 others.
New York Times
April 4, 2018
For much of Monday, even as the bodies of wounded and dead civilians — including children — arrived at local hospitals, the Afghan government maintained that its airstrike in northern Kunduz Province had killed only Taliban leaders in a nonresidential area. Late Tuesday, the office of President AshrafÃâà...
Just Security
April 4, 2018
Once again, airstrikes targeting insurgent leaders in Afghanistan have killed and injured dozens of civilians. On the morning of April 2, Afghan government forces attacked the Gujar Akhondzada Madrassa, a religious school, in the Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz province, as a graduation ceremony for theÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 3, 2018
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) said on Tuesday it has team in Dasht-e-Archi in Kunduz province assessing reports of mass civilian casualties sustained during Monday's airstrike against a local madrassa. UNAMA said on Twitter it is “actively looking in to disturbing reportsÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 3, 2018
Local officials confirmed only Taliban were killed and wounded in the airstrike. Hospital officials in the province also said dozens of casualties had been brought to the hospital. They did not however give figures. Two years ago extra security forces were deployed to Dasht-e-Archi district in Kunduz to clearÃâà...
CBS News
April 3, 2018
An team of tribal elders and provincial council members was assigned to investigate the incident, Kunduz police spokesman Imamudin Rahmani told CBS News on Tuesday. He confirmed that about 50 victims, dead and wounded, had been brought to Kunduz hospital following the strike, but added that theÃâà...
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
April 2, 2018
An Afghan forces air strike on a suspected Taliban gathering in the northern province of Kunduz has caused dozens of casualties, including among civilians, officials said. Abdul Hameed Hameedi, a local police official, said the strike in Dasht-i Archi district outside Kunduz city on April 2 hit a gathering ofÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 2, 2018
Local security commanders in Kunduz province told TOLOnews on Monday that a new arm of Taliban has emerged in the past few months in the province and that the fighters carry out night attacks on security forces. According to security officials, the new Taliban fighting unit is known as Red Division andÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
April 2, 2018
KUNDUZ: An Afghan airstrike on a religious school in a Taliban stronghold on Monday (Apr 2) caused multiple casualties, including civilians, Afghan officials and witnesses said. Top Taliban commanders were gathered inside the madrassa where a graduation ceremony was under way for students at theÃâà...
Pakistan Observer
April 2, 2018
Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanish said “initial reports” indicate the airstrike in the Dashti Archi district of Kunduz province killed around 20 Taliban fighters, including a local commander, and wounded many more. “I can confirm that a Taliban training centre was bombed and no civiliansÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
April 2, 2018
KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): A police official was killed and four civilians were in a blast caused by a magnetic bomb in the provincial capital of northern Kunduz province an Monday, an official said. Police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Hamid Hamidi told Pajhwok Afghan News the blast ripped through a borderÃâà...
New York Times
April 2, 2018
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan military helicopters bombed a religious gathering in the northern province of Kunduz on Monday, killing at least 70 people and wounding 30 others, according to a local official in the area. The official, Nasruddin Saadi, district governor of Dasht-e-Archi, said that theÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 31, 2018
Syed Asadullah, a schoolteacher from Chahar Dara district of Kunduz, said the government should resolve the salary problem with the Taliban. “We are ruled by two rival regimes; our area is under Taliban control, the government distributes our salaries through banks something which the Taliban oppose,”Ãâà...
Gandhara
March 29, 2018
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- Lawmakers in a restive northeastern province in Afghanistan say Taliban control has deprived hundreds of thousands of students from going to schools. Members of the provincial council in Kunduz, a rural province bordering Tajikistan, say insecurity and Taliban control haveÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 27, 2018
attack on a checkpoint in northern Kunduz province, an official said on Tuesday. Police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Hameed Hamidi told Pajhwok Afghan News the insurgents stormed the ALP checkpoint in the Zar Kharid locality of the provincial capital early in the morning. He said Sheikh Zahir, a former rebelÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 15, 2018
KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): The residents of northern Kunduz province say well-off people have stopped sending their children to school and tuition fearing their kidnapping, a growing phenomenon. The residents report four abduction incidents and one murder in captivity in Kunduz during the past oneÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
March 11, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): Four policemen have been killed and seven others wounded in a Taliban attack in the Aliabad district of northern Kunduz province, an official said on Sunday. A well-placed source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Pajhwok AfghanÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 11, 2018
attack in the Aliabad district of northern Kunduz province, an official said on Sunday. A well-placed source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Pajhwok Afghan News the militants attacked a security check-post in the Ramazan village of the district late on Saturday night. Four policemen were killed andÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 11, 2018
... German forces' activities would never be forgotten. He demanded the international community support Kunduz in different areas. The NATO commander assured the governor of continued support towards the security forces and further strengthening reconstruction and rehabilitation process in Kunduz.
smallwarsjournal
March 9, 2018
For example, the successful capture of Kunduz (a province in northern Afghanistan) by the Taliban did not occur because of their weapons superiority or technical expertise in battlefield; it happened because of massive failure of intelligence cooperation and coordination between the NDS, the National Security Agency ofÃâà...
ReliefWeb
March 5, 2018
From 1 January to 22 February, a total of 20,614 displaced people have been recorded in OCHA's Displacement Tracking System (DTS). The provinces sheltering the highest number of displaced families are Kunduz with 10,815 IDPs, followed by Farah with more than 2,000 displaced people.
TOLOnews
February 26, 2018
Kunduz city has for years been almost solely linked to war and violence but this year officials decided to change its face and uplift the spirits of the people by lighting up the streets ahead of Nowruz. Officials have said they hope local residents will be able to celebrate the new solar year in peace, especiallyÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
February 24, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): Two Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel and as many militants have been killed during a clash in northern Kunduz province. An official said on Friday. The clash erupted in the Kunjak area of Imam Sahib district late on Thursday when theÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 23, 2018
KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): Two Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel and as many militants have been killed during a clash in northern Kunduz province. An official said on Friday. The clash erupted in the Kunjak area of Imam info-icon Sahib district late on Thursday when the Taliban info-icon attacked anÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
February 20, 2018
(MENAFN - Daily Outlook Afghanistan) KUNDUZ CITY - A number of women demanded of the government to construct a family park in the capital of northern ... They argue Kunduz is insecure province where most of its residents avoid going for sightseeing and amusement due to insecurity, therefore, theÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 18, 2018
on Sunday demanded of the government to construct a family park in the capital of northern Kunduz province. They argue Kunduz is insecure province where most of its residents avoid going for sightseeing and amusement due to insecurity, therefore, the government should build a family park inside theÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 17, 2018
The formerly unemployed Kunduz residents, who are each paid 9,000 AFs a month, have welcomed the move. According to Mohammad Dawood, a municipal worker: “We are serving the people and keeping the city clean.” “On the one hand, this program keeps our city clean and on the other hand it hasÃâà...
Xinhua
February 13, 2018
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- At least one person was killed and three others injured as an explosive device planted on a road went off in Imam Sahib district in the northern Kunduz province on Tuesday, district governor Mahboubullah Sayedi said. "A mine planted by Taliban rebels on a roadÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 11, 2018
President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani during his trip to Kunduz province two years back announced three new districts Atqash, Gultapa and Gulbad. Provincial Council (PC) head Toryal Kakar told Pajhwok Afghan News after two years of the announcement of new districts, the Taliban still were in control ofÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
February 8, 2018
Air attacks had been a "game changer", he said, along with a revived campaign of "night raids" aimed at capturing fighter leaders, which previous President Hamid Karzai banned because they were so unpopular. Soldiers and police in districts outside Kunduz that were contested a year ago said the warÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 7, 2018
As complaints by residents rise over the presence of illegal armed men in parts of Kunduz province, the security and judicial agencies on Wednesday stressed the need for 'proper cooperation' among the organizations while some officials complained about the lack of law and order in the northern provinceÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
February 6, 2018
KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): All private clinics in northeastern Kunduz province are operating without licences from the government, an official claimed on Tuesday. Provincial council deputy head Safiullah Amiri told Pajhwok Afghan News a number of private clinics were recently opened in Kunduz withoutÃâà...
Long War Journal
January 31, 2018
The Afghan National Army's 209th Corps, accompanied by highly trained Afghan Commandos, conducted offensive operations in the northern province of Kunduz last week. Sources told FDD's Long War Journal the offensive killed between 60 to 80 Taliban fighters, but with other reports suggesting theÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan — When the Soviet Army pulled out of Afghanistan decades ago, it left behind rusty tanks, the wreckage of helicopters and a Ukrainian man who now goes by the name Nek Mohammad. On Feb. 15, 1989, the last Soviet commanding general in Afghanistan, Boris V. Gromov, walkedÃâà...
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
At least 14 insurgents including three Daesh fighters, who were Pakistani nationals, were killed in Afghan Air Forces airstrikes in Kunduz and Nangarhar province on Sunday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. A statement said 11 insurgents were killed and seven others wounded in Afghan airstrikes in Imam Sahib, KhanÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
December 31, 1999
(MENAFN - Daily Outlook Afghanistan) KUNDUZ CITY - A group of Afghan Local Police (ALP) allegedly gang-raped two women of a family in Dasht-i-Archi district of northern Kunduz province, residents said Sunday. Ismail, a resident of the center of Dasht-i-Archi district, told Pajhwok Afghan News thatÃâà...
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
Kunduz city has for years been almost solely linked to war and violence but this year officials decided to change its face and uplift the spirits of the people by lighting up the streets ahead of Nowruz. Officials have said they hope local residents will be able to celebrate the new solar year in peace, especiallyÃâà...
