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Afghanistan

Death Toll of Thursday's Blasts in Balkh Rises to 11

2022-04-30

If the Talibs cannot provide peace and prosperity, they demonstrate they do not have Allah’s approval...

[ToloNews] The corpse count from two blasts in Mazar-e-Sharif on Thursday evening has risen to 11, and the number of injured to 17.

Mohammad Asif Waziri, front man for the Balkh Police Command, said that the first blast occurred in the 3rd PD and the second in the 9th PD of Mazar-e-Sharif. According to Waziri, both blasts were caused by explosives placed in minibuses.

"We arrested the perpetrators of the Seh Dokan incident and brought them to justice. We will arrest the perpetrators of this case as soon as possible and bring them to justice," said Mohammad Asif Waziri, front man for the Balkh Police Command.

"We are completely tired of this situation. A few days ago, we had dozens of deaders and maimed. Last night, we had 14 to 15 deaders in this incident and we had more than twenty maimed," said Amir Khan, an eyewitness.

The victims of both blasts are civilians.

According to hospital sources, the condition of seven of the injured is critical, and three of the injured have had their legs amputated.

"Among the deaders are two women and a child, and the other seven are men," said Najibullah Tavana, director of Balkh's public health department.

Mohammad Zaman, along with his brother and nephew, were maimed in the first blast on Thursday as they were about to leave a shop. The legs of his 15-year-old nephew have been amputated.

"We were really stunned, we were in a situation where I could not think of anything for a moment about what to do," said Mohammad Zaman's niece.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pie fight, Bella opened her mouth at precisely the wrong moment...
in one of the cemeteries, thirteen graves have been prepared for the victims, in which the bodies of two victims have been buried.

Thirteen-year-old Mohammad Yasin, who has lost his father, says he wishes that his peers will not lose their fathers like him.

"We are five members in the family, my father was martyred while selling (mobile phone) cards. I ask the government that no more children lose their fathers like me," said Mohammad Yasin, a resident of Mazar-e-Sharif.

ISIS group grabbed credit for both blasts.

This comes as last Thursday a blast occurred in the Seh Dekan mosque in Mazar-e-Sharif in which 31 worshipers were killed and 87 others were maimed.

Yesterday we had the attacks in Mazar-e-Sharif claimed by ISIS, today we discover they once again attacked Shiites.

The #ISIS affiliate in #Afghanistan claims responsibility for two bombings in the country’s north that have targeted the country’s minority #Hazara ethnic group.https://t.co/6HZN5VOK8L
— Al Arabiya English (@AlArabiya_Eng) April 29, 2022

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Afghanistan

Explosion in Helmand claims gov’t prosecutor

2021-03-07

[KhaamaPress] Sayed Mohammad Sadat, head of NDS prosecutors’ office along with three others were reportedly killed in a kaboom near the provincial Police HQ in Lashkargah city of Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
Province.

Helmand police front man Mohammad Zaman Hamdard confirmed the incident to the media but did not provide further details.

On the other hand, a number of media outlets reported that the earth-shattering kaboom took place near the Helmand Police headquarters.

According to reports eight people including a woman were also injured in the attack.

No individual or group has grabbed credit for the attack.

This comes as Hashim Hamdard, a tribal elder was killed in an IED blast in the Jangal Bagh area in PD7 of Jalalabad city in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province.

The incident happened at around 7:00 am on Saturday morning, local officials told the media.

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Afghanistan

Two explosions in Afghanistan kill at least three

2021-02-22

[Aljazeera] Separate bomb explosions in Afghanistan killed at least three people including a child and wounded 20 others on Sunday, Afghan officials said.

Kabul police spokesman Ferdaws Faramarz said a roadside bomb targeted a police car, killing the driver and a nearby child. Five other civilians including children were wounded.

The second blast was caused by a bomb placed in a crowded market in southern Helmand province, killing one civilian and wounding 15 others including two police, said provincial police spokesman, Mohammad Zaman Hamdard.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for any of the attacks. Afghan police officials said that an investigation was under way.

Bombings and assassinations have occurred on a near-daily basis in the capital, Kabul, in recent months, targeting Afghan security forces, civilian government employees, journalists, religious scholars and civil society activists.

Many of the attacks have used sticky bombs — explosive devices with magnets that are attached to vehicles and detonated by remote control or timer.

On Saturday, at least five people were killed after three back-to-back explosions rocked various parts of the city.

Afghan security forces inspect the site of a bomb blast in Kabul, Afghanistan, February 21, 2021 [Omar Sobhani/Reuters]
The ISIL (ISIS) group’s local affiliate has claimed responsibility for some of the attacks, but many go unclaimed, with the government blaming the Taliban.
The Taliban has denied responsibility for most of the attacks.

In the Doha agreement signed in February 2020, the Taliban committed to peace talks with the Afghan government and to significantly reduce violence. As part of the deal, the United States pledged to withdraw all international troops by April this year.

However, violent conflict has continued in Afghanistan, making it difficult to implement the agreement. The new US administration under President Joe Biden is reviewing the withdrawal plan.

There are about 2,500 US troops and 10,000 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan now.

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Afghanistan

23 Civilians Killed in Rocket Attacks in Helmand

2020-06-30

[ToloNews] At least 23 non-combatants were killed after four rockets hit a festival being held at a market in Sangin district in Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province on Monday morning, the provincial governor’s office said in a statement.

The statement added that 15 other civilians were maimed in the earth-shattering kabooms.

The incident happened in the Zol Bazar area and the rockets were fired by holy warriors, followed by a boom-mobile explosion, the statement read.

According to the statement, the boom-mobile explosion happened in a nearby place among people’s houses where explosives and rockets were made in collaboration with "foreign terrorists."

Two Taliban
Taliban

...Arabic for students...
fighters were killed in the boom-mobile blast, said the statement, adding that the boom-mobile has also injured civilians — which is not confirmed yet — and has damaged people’s houses.

The statement denied reports that the rockets were fired by Afghan forces, instead blaming the Taliban for the attack.

Helmand governor Mohammad Yasin has assigned a security team to probe the incident, the statement concluded.

Taliban has denied involvement in the attack.

This comes a day after at least six non-combatants were killed as their car hit a roadside kaboom in another district of Helmand, Washir, on Sunday.

Al Ahram adds:

Details of the reported attack could not be independently confirmed as the area, which is under Taliban control, is remote and inaccessible to reporters.

6 Civilians Killed in Helmand Roadside Mine Blast

[ToloNews] At least six civilians, including women and kiddies, were killed in a roadside mine blast in southern Helmand
...an Afghan province populated mostly by Pashtuns, adjacent to Injun country in Pak Balochistan...
province on Sunday afternoon, local officials said on Monday.

The incident took place in Washir district after a civilian vehicle struck a roadside mine, said Mohammad Zaman Hamdard, a front man for provincial police chief.

"Two other civilians were maimed in the blast and the victims have been taken to a nearby hospital," he said.

No group, including the Taliban
Taliban

...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
, has grabbed credit for the blast.

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Afghanistan

Dozens of Khogyani youths join Local Armed Forces after completing training

2018-11-22

[KhaamaPress] Dozens of soldiers of a Local Army Unit were deployed to Khogyani district in eastern Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province after completing their training.

The provincial government media office in a statement said a ceremony was organized in 201st Silab Corps headquarters to celebrate the graduation of the soldiers in which Gen. Mohammad Zaman Waziri, director of the training of the armed forces, commander of the educational Kandak, some officers, army soldiers, and others had participated.

The Commander of 201st Silab Corps Gen. Mohammad Zaman Waziri said the former soldiers of the Afghan National Army have voluntarily joined the Afghan Local Armed forces.

Gen. Waziri further added that the soldiers completed professional studies and training and will be deployed in Khogyani district to serve the people and maintain security in their region.

The director of the educations and training of Silab Corps said the youths have been trained over a period of 12 weeks and have full resolve to maintain security in the region.

Some of the graduates of the Local Armed Forces assured the people and officials that they are mentally and physically prepared to maintain security in their region considering the previous experiences and new training they have received.

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Afghanistan

Foreign forces storm ISIS hideouts in Kunar province

2018-09-19

[KhaamaPress] The foreign forces have stormed the hideouts of the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
of Iraq and Syria Khurasan (ISIS-K) in eastern Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
of Afghanistan, leaving a number of Lions of Islam dead or maimed.

The local officials in Kunar said the operations were conducted late on Sunday night in the vicinity of Watapur district.

Provincial Security Chief Amir Mohammad Zaman confirmed the raid and said at least three ISIS Khurasan Lions of Islam were killed during the raid and two others were incarcerated
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
He said a commander of the terror group identified as Abuzar was among those killed during the operations.

In the meantime, the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan Military in the East said the U.S. forces based in Afghanistan carried out ~~Arclight~~ airstrike

s using unmanned aerial vehicles, targeting the ISIS Lions of Islam in Watapur district that left at least two dead.

The anti-government armed bad boy groups including ISIS Khurasan loyalists have not commented regarding the report so far.

Kunar is among the relatively volatile provinces in East of Afghanistan where both the Taliban
...Arabic for students...
, ISIS Khurasan, and Lions of Islam affiliated with the al-Qaeda terrorist network are active in some of its districts and often carry out terrorist related activities.

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Afghanistan

4 Kops die in checkpoint attack in Ghazni

2017-10-24

At least four policemen were killed in a Taliban attack on a security check post in central Ghazni province on Sunday night, local police confirmed on Monday.

In addition, two other policemen were wounded.

The attack took place in Waghiz district of the province after Taliban insurgents attacked the police check post and clashed with security forces, provincial police chief Mohammad Zaman said.

“The Taliban also suffered casualties in the clash but there is no exact information,” Zaman said adding that the insurgents retreated after the attack.

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Afghanistan

Suicide Bombers, Gunmen Kill 71 in Attacks on Afghan Security Forces

2017-10-18

[An Nahar] Two separate suicide and gun attacks on police and soldiers in Afghanistan left at least 71 dead and nearly 170 maimed Tuesday in the latest devastating assaults on beleaguered security forces.

The Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
claimed the more deadly of the two assaults, a coordinated attack on police in the southeast city of Gardez in Paktia province.

That assault killed 41 people and injured 158, according to the interior ministry, and left hospital officials calling for blood donations. There were desperate scenes as relatives queued for news of loved ones after the hours-long battle.

A separate ambush blamed on the Taliban in the neighboring province of Ghazni killed 25 security officials and five civilians with 10 maimed, the interior ministry said.

Afghanistan's army and police, on the front line against the Taliban since foreign combat forces pulled back in December 2014, have suffered shocking casualties over the past year. Their ranks are beset by corruption and desertion.

"The hospital is overwhelmed and we call on people to donate blood," said Shir Mohammad Karimi, deputy health director in Gardez, who put the number of maimed there at more than 200.

Doctors and nurses rushed to attend to the maimed women, children and police filling the corridors where some bodies also lay. Outside, university students formed a queue to donate blood, an AFP photographer said.

The attack, claimed by the Taliban in a tweet, began when two jacket wallahs driving an explosives-laden truck and a Humvee blew them up near the training center, which is close to the Paktia police headquarters.

The blasts flattened a building and enabled button men to force their way inside the compound, according to officials and the interior ministry.

"Most of the victims are civilians who had come to the police headquarters to get their passports and national IDs," a statement from the Paktia governor's office said.

A university student who was in class at the time said he heard "a big boom" which shook the building and shattered windows.

"As we were trying to find our way (out of the building) I heard a second blast and then the dust and dirt covered us in the class. Several of my classmates were maimed by broken glass," Noor Ahmad told AFP.

The battle between the attackers, armed with guns and boom jackets, and security forces lasted around five hours before it ended with all five murderous Moslems killed, officials said.

Photos posted on Twitter showed two large plumes of smoke rising above the city.

The second attack, in Ghazni some 100 kilometers (62 miles) west of Gardez, followed a similar pattern involving faceless myrmidons detonating an explosives-laden Humvee near a police headquarters then storming the building, Haref Noori, the Ghazni governor's front man, told AFP.

"Dozens of Taliban" were killed in the attack, Ghazni police chief Mohammad Zaman said.

Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani

...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
condemned the attacks and praised the "bravery and sacrifice" of security forces.

- Drone strike -
The attacks are the latest in a series of assaults on security installations, including one on a military hospital in Kabul in March which may have killed up to 100 people, and a devastating attack on a base in Mazar-e-Sharif which left 144 people dead.

They came one day after four-way talks between Afghanistan, Pakistain, the United States and China were held in Oman with the aim of ending the Taliban's 16-year insurgency.

Paktia province borders Pakistain's militancy-plagued tribal areas where the Taliban-affiliated Haqqani network

has a presence.

Tuesday's attack in Gardez began hours after a U.S. dronezap in Pakistain's

Kurram tribal district
...home of an intricately interconnected web of poverty, ignorance, and religious fanaticism, where the laws of cause and effect are assumed to be suspended, conveniently located adjacent to Tora Bora...
, part of which borders Paktia, killed at least 26 Haqqani bully boys, officials have said.

A senior commander in the Afghan Taliban told AFP on condition of anonymity the attack was in retaliation for the U.S. aerial assault, the deadliest targeting murderous Moslems in the Pak tribal region this year.

On Monday the U.S. also carried out strikes in the Jaji Maidan district of Paktia "under counter-terror authorities," said U.S. Forces front man Navy Captain Tom Gresback.

In Kurram last week the Pak military rescued a U.S.-Canadian family who had been kidnapped by murderous Moslems in Afghanistan in 2012. U.S. President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
has said they were being held by the Haqqani network.

The murderous Moslem group is known for its frequent use of suicide bombers. The Haqqanis have also been accused of assassinating top Afghan officials and holding kidnapped Westerners for ransom.

These include the recently rescued hostages Canadian Joshua Boyle, his American wife Caitlan Coleman, and their three children -- all born in captivity -- as well as U.S. soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who was released in 2014.

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Afghanistan

Afghan forces clear Tora Bora of ISIS leaving 44 militants dead, 22 wounded

2017-06-22

[Khaama (Afghanistan)] The Afghan national defense and security forces have fully cleared the strategic Tora Bora area from the presence of the ISIS militants, leaving at least 44 militants dead and 22 more wounded during the operations, the local officials said.

The commander of the 201st Silab Corps of the Afghan army General Mohammad Zaman Waziri said at least 44 ISIS militants were killed since the operations were launched.

He said at least 22 more were wounded and two others were arrested along with their weapons and ammunition, confirming that the area has been fully cleared of ISIS terrorists.

The provincial police chief General Abdul Rahman Rahimi told reporters in Tora Bora that the security forces will not allow the insurgents to once again create sanctuaries and safe havens for themselves in Nangarhar and specifically in Tora Bora of Pacher Agam.

Provincial governor Mohammad Gulab Mangal in the meantime said the ISIS militants who had taken positions in Tora Bora were all foreigners.

He said Pakistani, Uzbek, Chechen, Arab, and other insurgents were seen among the militants during the operations.

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Afghanistan

2 kops die in fighting in Parwan

2017-01-04

At least two policemen were killed in a clash with gunmen in northern Parwan province on Monday afternoon, local officials said. In addition, another policeman was injured.

The clash took place in Charikar city, the capital of the province, Provincial Police Chief Mohammad Zaman Mamuzai said.

In the meantime, an eyewitness said that two policemen were killed in the clash and four others were injured.

But a source told TOLOnews that the clash happened between Afghan National Police members and public order police and that three policemen were killed and three others were injured. No further details have been released.

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U.S Will Not Allow IS Safe Havens in Afghanistan

2016-08-10

Following reports about Daesh and Taliban's joining forces in Nangarhar province, the U.S Department of State has said that they are monitoring terrorist activity in Afghanistan and that they will not let Daesh and its factions establish safe havens in the country.

They also said they would see to it that the group does not secure material support in the country.

Commander of 201 Selab Corps, General Mohammad Zaman Wazir, recently said the Taliban and Daesh have in the past clashed but in the past two months, no cross-fighting has been recorded.

However, a number of Daesh commanders were recently killed in military operations, Wazir said.

"At least 23 Daesh commanders including the commander of Khurasan faction, Hafiz Saeed, were killed in foreign troops' drone strikes and their bodies all still there," Wazir said.

Commenting on Wazir's statement, the U.S State Department press office director, Elizabeth Trudeau, said in an chat with media that they are aware of the reports and that they are monitoring the terrorist group's activities in the country.

"We're aware of the reports. We're obviously monitoring for the presence of Daesh-affiliated individuals and groups in Afghanistan. We remain actively engaged with the government of Afghanistan, as well as our partners in the region, to deny terrorist organizations such as Daesh or their branches safe havens and material support," she said.

The Zabul provincial council meanwhile said they are concerned about an increase in Daesh activities in parts of the province.

"Daesh rebels are active in Khak Afghan and Arghandab districts [in Zabul] where they have erected over 300 tents and are living," said Ata Jan Haqbayan, a member of the Zabul provincial council.

However, Zabul police chief Mirwais Noorzai said they launched military operations and have eliminated Daesh fighters from the area.

"We carried out military operations in areas where Daesh had activities and we eliminated them, but in some areas they are out of security forces' access," Noorzai added.

The Interior Ministry meanwhile said Daesh is a threat to the country's security, but the alliance with Taliban is not an important matter.

"We believe that the alliance of Taliban and Daesh is a fragile issue and it will not continue. But Daesh is a threat and there is a serious will in government to destroy and uproot all terrorist groups," said Najib Danish, deputy spokesman for the interior ministry.

Daesh has reportedly increased its activities in the country's eastern parts – including Nangarhar province. However, the Afghan Defense Ministry this week said they have increased air and ground operations against the insurgent group to end their activities in the eastern regions.

Video report at the link

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Islamic State, Taliban form alliance in Afghanistan to focus on US-backed forces

2016-08-10

[FOXNEWS] Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
and the Taliban, after more than a year of fierce combat, have forged a patchwork cease-fire across much of eastern Afghanistan that has helped both insurgencies regroup and counter U.S.-backed efforts to dislodge them.

Until several months ago, Islamic State fought bloody battles with local Taliban units over fighters and territory in several provinces. The long-running Taliban insurgency has sought to stamp out its smaller rival, which only emerged in 2014. Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces took advantage of the conflict, engaging the forces of Evil on multiple fronts to push them back and reclaim territory they held.

But recently, Afghan officials say, the two insurgencies have worked out local deals to stop fighting each other and turn their sights on the government. The upshot is that Islamic State has been able to focus on fighting U.S.- backed Afghan forces in Nangarhar
The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country..
province and shift north into Kunar province
... which is right down the road from Chitral. Kunar is Haqqani country.....
, establishing a new foothold in a longtime Taliban and former al Qaeda stronghold.

"They fought deadly battles with the Taliban before. But over the past two months, there has been no fighting among them," said Gen. Mohammad Zaman Waziri, who commands Afghan troops in the east.

Islamic State’s presence in Afghanistan is still nascent. Even in its stronghold Nangarhar, Afghan officials estimate the group remains several times smaller than the Taliban. And the cease-fire between them could break apart at any time.

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