Tag: Kunduz
Airstrike kills 20 Taliban fighters in Kunduz: Afghan officials
KUNDUZ: An Afghan official says an airstrike on a Taliban training camp in northern Afghanistan killed at least 20 insurgents and wounded many more on...
Afghan Taliban kidnap 47 in Kunduz
Unidentified militants seized 47 passengers traveling on a highway in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province on Wednesday, officials said, the latest in a series of kidnappings...
Afghan forces repel Taliban in Kunduz as spring fighting begins
Afghan security forces drove Taliban fighters back from Kunduz city Friday, officials said, as the insurgents began the 2016 fighting season by targeting the...
At least 848 Afghan civilian casualties following Taliban siege of Kunduz:...
At least 848 Afghan civilians were killed or wounded following a Taliban attack on the northern city of Kunduz in September, according to a...
Afghan probe finds leadership failure behind fall of Kunduz
Weak leadership, misuse of resources and lack of coordination between Afghan security services were the main reasons a strategic northern city briefly fell to...
Staff fleeing Kunduz hospital shot in US airstrike, says MSF report
Medical aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Thursday it was hard to believe a United States (US) airstrike on an Afghan hospital...
Pentagon says US military personnel rammed gate of MSF hospital
US military personnel rammed into the gate of a medical aid group’s hospital in Afghanistan last week to enter the grounds of the building...
No foreign aid agencies left in Afghanistan’s Kunduz: UN
All international aid organisations have left the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz following a United States (US) air strike on a hospital run by...
Taliban fighters launch hit-and-run attacks in Kunduz
Taliban fighters on motorbikes have carried out hit-and-run attacks on Afghan forces trying to clear Kunduz city of insurgents, more than a week after...
Afghan forces regain most of Kunduz, some shops reopen
Residents say Monday was the first time in eight days that they had not heard gun battles and were able to leave their homes to buy food and take stock of the damage done
Afghan forces retake control of Kunduz from Taliban
Afghan troops manage to reach centre of Kunduz where eye-witnesses said streets were littered with Taliban bodies
Afghan forces retook control of the strategic northern...
Ghani says Taliban using civilians as human shield
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday accused Taliban militants of using civilians as human shield in the northern Kunduz province.
“The cruel enemies are using...
Taliban chief asks Kabul to accept defeat in Kunduz as US...
Mullah Mansour says Taliban victory in northern city should not be attributed to ‘foreign intelligence’
Afghan insurgents take control of district in Kunduz
Taliban insurgents have taken control of the Chardara district in northern Kunduz province, according to Afghan officials.
Mohammad Yusouf Ayubi, head of the provincial council...
Agony for civilians as Afghan battlefront expands north
Mauludeen lifts the shirt of his writhing, shrieking infant daughter to reveal a gunshot wound, highlighting the plight of tens of thousands of Afghans...
Stretched Afghan army seeks help from militias to defend Kunduz
The Afghan government has enlisted hundreds of militia fighters controlled by local commanders to battle Taliban militants near the northern city of Kunduz, officials...
Fighting flares as Taliban advance on Kunduz
Intense fighting flared in northern Afghanistan as security forces battled Taliban insurgents advancing Tuesday on a major provincial capital, officials said, with terrified residents...
