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KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) – The studio and newsrooms of television station 1TV sustained damage after a bomb hidden in a sewage tanker exploded in the morning rush hour in the center of Kabul on Wednesday (May 31), killing at least 80 people and wounding hundreds more in the Afghan capital’s unofficial “Green Zone.” Staff removed ceiling boards which had fallen off and shattered glass and doors which had been blown off due to the impact of […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) – Lights were switched off at Paris’ Eiffel Tower just before midnight (2200GMT) on Wednesday (May 31) in honor of the victims of a truck bomb in Kabul, Afghanistan. A powerful bomb hidden in a sewage tanker exploded in the morning rush hour in the center of Kabul, killing at least 80 people, wounding hundreds more and damaging embassy buildings in the Afghan capital’s unofficial “Green Zone.” The victims of the explosion […]
by Emal Haidary Agence France Presse KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — At least 49 people were killed and hundreds wounded Wednesday when a massive truck bomb ripped through Kabul’s diplomatic quarter, shattering the morning rush hour and bringing carnage to the streets of the Afghan capital. Bodies littered the scene and a towering plume of smoke rose from the area, which houses foreign embassies, after the blast blew out the windows in several missions and residences […]
CHAPARHAR, Afghanistan — Local forces on the ground in Afghanistan are demanding for more troops and equipment to beat insurgents. Brigadier General Mohammad Nasim Sangin, for instance, said he needs more troops and equipment to beat the Taliban and other insurgent groups. A soldier since his teenage years with the anti-Soviet Mujahideen in the 1980s, Sangin said one thing he does not want is foreign troops returning to frontline combat in his country. The occasional rattle of […]
by Enamullah Samoon Agence France-Presse Suicide bombers stormed the national television station in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Wednesday, triggering gunfights and explosions with journalists trapped inside the building, officials and eyewitnesses said. At least two people were killed and 16 others wounded in the nearly four-hour assault on Radio Television Afghanistan, which marks the latest in a string of assaults on media workers in Afghanistan. No insurgent group has so far claimed […]
MONTREAL, Canada (AFP) – An Afghan pilot hoping to become the youngest woman in history to complete a solo round-the-world flight was preparing Monday to start the Transatlantic leg of her journey. Shaesta Waiz, 29, was born in a refugee camp at the end of the Soviet war in Afghanistan before immigrating with her family to the United States in 1987. There, she discovered a passion for flying and obtained her pilot’s license — becoming […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – The heads of United States intelligence agencies offered a pessimistic assessment Thursday of the security situation in Afghanistan, where the US government is planning to send more troops to combat resurgent Islamic extremists. “The political and security situation in Afghanistan will also almost certainly deteriorate through 2018, even with a modest increase in the military assistance by the US and its partners,” Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said at […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuters) — A suicide bombing near the U.S. embassy in Kabul on Wednesday (May 3) killed four people and wounded at least 22, Afghan officials said, in an attack on a convoy of armored personnel carriers used by the NATO-led Resolute Support mission. The blast hit the NATO coalition convoy during the morning rush hour in one of the busiest areas of Kabul. There was no immediate word on whether any foreign troops […]
JALALABAD, Afghanistan (AFP) – Fighting was still ongoing Wednesday near the site in eastern Afghanistan where the US dropped a massive bomb on an Islamic State group stronghold six days ago, a NATO spokesman said. Security forces have denied access to residents and media to the area where the US military dropped its GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast, dubbed the “Mother of All Bombs” and used in combat for the first time on April 13. […]
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — The United States has dropped a GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast (MOAB) bomb, otherwise known as the ‘Mother of All Bombs’, on an Islamic State stronghold in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province. It is the first time the bomb, developed in the early days of the Iraq war, has been used in combat. How powerful is the MOAB? The 9.8-tonne guided bomb, the largest non-nuclear weapon in America’s arsenal, is described by […]
TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Tokyo shares opened lower Friday on rising geopolitical fears after the US military dropped a massive bomb in Afghanistan, adding to tensions over the Middle East and the Korean peninsula. Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei 225 index fell 0.11 percent, or 19.66 points, to 18,407.18 in first minutes of trading, while the Topix index of all first-section issues lost 0.49 percent, or 7.18 points, at 1,461.13. © Agence France-Presse
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States military on Thursday dropped what is considered to be the largest non-nuclear bomb on an Islamic State complex in Afghanistan, the Pentagon said. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb hit a “tunnel complex” in Achin district in Nangarhar province, US Forces Afghanistan said in a statement. The strike occurred at about 7:32 pm local time (1502 GMT). Pentagon spokesperson Adam Stump said it was the first combat […]
