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Taliban militants 'searched for foreigners'

Kabul - Muslimchronicle

Taliban militants who killed at least 22 people at a luxury Kabul hotel went from room to room searching for foreigners, survivors and a security source said Monday as more details of the victims emerged. Insurgents armed with Kalashnikovs and suicide vests attacked the landmark Intercontinental Hotel overlooking the Afghan capital late Saturday, in an assault that lasted more than 12 hours andRead more

Afghan forces kill 50 militants, recapture 10 villages in northern province

KUNDUZ - Muslimchronicle

Up to 50 militants have been confirmed dead and 30 others injured as the Afghan forces wrapped up crackdown against Taliban fighters in northern Kunduz province, an army spokesman in the northern region said Monday. The security forces, according to spokesman Ghulam Hazrat Karimi, launched cleanup operations against Taliban fighters in Char Dara district one week ago which concluded onRead more

At least 18 dead in Kabul hotel attack, including 14 foreigners

Kabul - Muslimchronicle

At least 18 people including 14 foreigners were killed in a bloody Taliban-claimed assault on a luxury hotel in Kabul, an interior ministry spokesman said Sunday, hours after the overnight attack ended. "Fourteen foreigners were killed and four Afghans," interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish told Afghanistan's Tolo News, without specifying the nationalities involved. Ukrainian officials have already said at leastRead more

2 Taliban commanders among 10 killed in Afghan eastern Wardak province

MAIDAN SHAHR - Muslimchronicle

Two Taliban senior commanders are among the 10 militants killed in the eastern Wardak province on Sunday, spokesman for provincial government Abdul Rahman Mangal said. "Acting on a tipoff, the security forces stormed a Taliban hideout in Sayed Abad district early today morning, killing 10 rebels including notorious commanders Qari Najibullah alias Rahbar and Mawlawi Waris alias Abas on theRead more

Clash between Taliban, IS kills 1, wounds 2 in N. Afghan province

SHIBERGHAN - Muslimchronicle

At least one militant loyal to the Islamic State (IS) group has been killed and two others injured as clash flared up between the radical IS outfit and Taliban fanatic group in Darzab district of the northern Jawzjan province on Sunday, provincial governor's spokesman Mohammad Reza Ghafori said. The clash, according to the official, took place after the IS groupRead more

US could freeze up to $1.9 bn in aid to Pakistan

Washington - Muslimchronicle

US President Donald Trump's decision to freeze aid to Pakistan could affect up to $1.9 billion worth of assistance, a senior administration official said on Friday -- substantially more than first thought. The official said "equipment and coalition support funding" was in play, detailing military and Afghanistan-focused funding that will now be frozen if Pakistan does not crack down onRead more

Joshua Boyle, ex-Taliban hostage, faces 15 criminal charges in Canada

Ottawa - Muslimchronicle

A Canadian man freed in 2017 nearly five years after being abducted in Afghanistan has been arrested in Ottawa and faces several charges, including assault and forcible confinement, his lawyer said on Tuesday. Joshua Boyle, his wife Caitlin Coleman and three children arrived back in Canada last October. At the time he said one of his children had been murderedRead more

176 militants killed in month-long Afghan operations

KUNDUZ - Muslimchronicle

As many as 176 militants loyal to the Taliban group and Islamic State (IS) terrorist group were killed and 118 other wounded following Afghan forces counter-insurgent operations over the last one month in country's northern provinces, authorities said Sunday. "The Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) launched a series of operation in Faryab, Kunduz, Sari Pul and Baghlan provinces,Read more

8 killed in car bombing attack on police station in S. Afghanistan

KANDAHAR - Muslimchronicle

At least eight people were killed and many others wounded after a Taliban suicide car bombing struck a district police station in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, local police said Friday. The attack occurred roughly at 04:30 a.m. local time (0000 GMT) Friday, after a Taliban suicide bomber drove a hijacked explosive-laden military vehicle into the Maywand district police station,Read more

US vice president makes unannounced Afghanistan visit

Kabul - Muslimchronicle

US Vice President Mike Pence arrived on an unannounced pre-Christmas visit to Afghanistan Thursday, becoming the most senior Trump administration official to visit troops fighting a 17-year-old conflict that has largely receded from US public view. Flying secretly through the day and night on a standard unmarked US Air Force C-17, Pence corkscrewed into Bagram Airforce Base, where he thanked some ofRead more