Новости за 01.05.2016

At least 9 Taliban militants were killed after stepping on an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) planted their fellow fighters in northeastern Badakhshan province. According a security official, the incident took place late on Saturday night in Walik village of Arghistan district. The official serving with the 209th Shaheen Corps of the Afghan National Army said Read the full article...

A woman has been sentenced to a total of 100 years in prison in the western US state of Colorado for attempted murder of unborn child, it has been reported. The woman was found guilty during a court hearing for cutting a seven-month-old foetus from the womb of an expectant mother. The convict, Dynel Lane, Read the full article...

A group of 3 loyalists of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group surrendered to the Afghan armed forces after killing 4 Taliban insurgents. According to the local officials in eastern Kunar province, the militants surrendered to the Afghan army in Marwara district. Provincial governor Wahidullah Kalimzai said the militants were operating for Read the full article...

The Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Hekmat Khalil Karzai has said that the ongoing violence in Afghanistan is not as a result of conflict among Afghans but is the result of an imposed war on the Afghan nation. In his speech during the Fifth Ministerial Meeting of Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia Read the full article...

The officials in Da Afghanistan Breshna Sherkat (DABS), the state-run electricity supplying company, have said the price of imported electricity will be increased by 25 percent. DABS spokesman Wahidullah Tawhidi said the decision to increase the electricity price was taken due to increase in Dollars value against the Afghan currency. He said the DABS suffered Read the full article...

At least 64 militants were killed and 50 others were wounded in the latest raids of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), the Ministry of Defense (MoD) said Sunday. According to a statement by MoD, the operations were jointly conducted by the Afghan National Army, Afghan National Police and security personnel from the other security Read the full article...

A top Taliban commander was killed during a gun battle with the intelligence operatives in the central Logar province of Afghanistan. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said the commander identified as Mohammad Rahim was killed as the NDS operatives were busy conducting a special military raid in Khoshi district. A statement by NDS said Read the full article...

A relatively powerful explosion rocked Gaziantep city in the south of Turkey earlier today with preliminary reports suggesting at least one person was killed and 13 others wounded. According to the local media reports, the explosion took place near a police station in the city, leaving at least one dead and 13 others wounded, including Read the full article...

At least 23 militants were killed during the joint military operations conducted by the Afghan army and Afghan police forces in western Nimroz province. The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said the operations were launched by 215th Corps of the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police (ANP) forces. A statement by MoD said the operations Read the full article...

A steep decrease has been reported in Peshawar trade with the repatriation of Afghan refugees from the city which saw a rapid rise following a deadly attack on Army Public School late in 2014. According to the local media reports, citing local traders, the Afghan refugees were forming the majority of their customers. The repatriation Read the full article...

Australia’s Governor-general Peter Cosgrove reaffirmed continued support to Afghanistan during a meeting with President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Saturday. Cosgrove arrived to Afghanistan to meet with the Afghan officials days after an Australian aid worker was abducted by gunmen from eastern Jalalabad city. The Office of the President said President Ghani and the Australian Governor-general Read the full article...