MIHTARLAM, Afghanistan – Some public universities opened in Afghanistan on Wednesday for the first time since the Taliban seized power in August, with a trickle of women attending classes that officials said would be segregated by sex. Most secondary schools for girls and all public universities were shuttered when the hardline Islamist group stormed back … Read more
JALALABAD: A bomb ripped through a vehicle carrying a Taliban police chief in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing him and wounding 11 others, officials said. The blast occurred in Asadabad, the capital of Kunar province, targeting the Taliban police chief for Shigal district, said an official. “The police chief has died and eleven people have been … Read more
Local officials in Afghanistan say Taliban fighters have killed journalists, kidnapped an Afghan radio station manager in Kabul and abducted a journalist from Helmand province. According to the British news agency Reuters, a gunman shot and killed Toofan Omar, the station manager of Paktia Ghag radio and an officer of the pro-Afghan independent media group … Read more
MAZAR-I-SHARIF: One person lost his life and 12 others sustained injuries as a bicycle bomb went off in Mazar-i-Sharif city, the capital of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Thursday evening, provincial police spokesman Adil Shah Adil said Friday. “The terrorists placed explosive device in the cavities of a bicycle and detonated it on a crowded … Read more
