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At least 32 people are dead and 70 injured after an explosion tore through a Shia mosque during Friday prayers in the Afghan city of Kandahar. The explosion’s cause is not yet clear but a suicide bombing is suspected. One witness told AFP he heard three explosions – at the main door, where worshippers wash, […]
The fighting around three major Afghan cities in the south and west– Herat, Lashkar Gah and Kandahar – intensified as Taliban militants sought to seize them from government forces. The Taliban have made rapid rural gains since it was announced almost all foreign troops would go by September. But the fate of these key cities […]
The Taliban gained momentum overnight with the capture of several districts from fleeing Afghan forces, several hundred of whom fled across the border into Tajikistan, officials said. More than 300 Afghan military personnel crossed from Afghanistan’s Badakhshan province as Taliban fighters advanced towards the border, Tajikistan’s State Committee for National Security said in a statement […]
At least 11 people were killed and 13 other wounded in four separate bombings in Afghanistan on Thursday, hours after a three-day ceasefire began across the country to mark the holy festival of Eid al-Fitr. A roadside bomb struck a car in the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province, killing five civilians, including a woman […]
The Taliban have captured Afghanistan’s second-biggest dam after months of fierce fighting in its former bastion of Kandahar, the group and officials said, as the US forces have begun the withdrawal of its troops from the country after 20 years. The Dahla Dam, which provides irrigation to farmers via a network of canals as well […]
Nemat Rawan, a former Afghan television journalist, was shot dead in southern Kandahar city on Thursday, officials said, becoming the fifth journalist to have been killed this year. Rawan hosted a popular talk show on the country’s leading broadcaster, Tolo News, before joining the ministry of finance as a communications specialist last month. He was […]
At least 13 people were killed in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province after their vehicle set off a landmine. Government officials have blamed Taliban for the attack. The explosion happened in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar province when people were travelling to an open-air market, where hundreds of villagers gather for weekend sales. Bahir Ahmad […]