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cities, towns and villages of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan
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DAWN.com
April 24, 2018
The explosion shook the city around 10am, shattering windows miles from the site of the attack, leaving the pavement covered with bodies and blood stains and ... In eastern Nangarhar province's Chaparhar district, militants killed three university students on Sunday, said Attaullah Khogyani, the governor'sÃâà...
Asharq Al-awsat English
April 24, 2018
Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the governor of Nangarhar, the main stronghold of ISIS in Afghanistan, said the brothers were killed in Chaparhar district ... grieving Afghans buried their loved ones in Kabul on Monday amid growing anger over a suicide attack on a voter registration center in the city thatÃâà...
The Hindu
April 23, 2018
... in Dari refers to a girl “dressed as a boy”, enabling her to safely perform the duties of a son in the patriarchal country. The 18-year-old, who resides with her impoverished family in a mud-brick house in a village in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, has pretended to be a boy for most of her life.
Kansas City Star
April 23, 2018
The explosion shook the city around 10 a.m., shattering windows miles from the site of the attack, leaving the pavement covered with bodies and blood ... comes as U.S. and the Afghan troops have been conducting counter-terrorism operations and airstrikes across Afghanistan, including in Nangarhar,Ãâà...
TOLOnews
April 23, 2018
This comes just a day after Daesh claimed responsibility for Sunday's deadly suicide bombing at a population registration center in Kabul city that killed almost 60 people. Nangarhar officials said on Monday that the three brothers, Nisar, Naeem and Wahab worked in the medical sector. Officials said theÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
April 22, 2018
THREE police officers were shot dead by unidentified gunmen on motorcycles at Nangarhar University in the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on 15 April, Afghan Islamic Press News Agency reported. The Islamic State's Wilayat Khorasan claimed responsibility for the attack. (42 words)Ãâà...
Syrian War Daily (blog)
April 22, 2018
Syrian Civil Defense's (The White Helmets) demonstrated in the city of Azaz, due to not receiving salaries for more than three months. The demonstrators ... Mohammed al-Sheikh was wounded in head on the 18th of April, while clashing with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham around the village of Marayan. Damascus:.
TOLOnews
April 21, 2018
Following that on Thursday, unknown armed men attacked two police force members in Jalalabad City who were guarding a voter registration center. ... attacked a voter registration center and killed two policemen and seized their weapons,” Naser Kamawal, member of Nangarhar Provincial Council, said.
Tri-City Herald
April 20, 2018
An Afghan official says a roadside bomb has killed five people in eastern Nangarhar province. Attaullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor, says the explosion struck a vehicle in the Aska Mina district on Friday, killing the five and also wounding 14 civilians. He says women and children areÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
April 20, 2018
Along its course it feeds into both the Kabul river in Kama district in Nangarhar province and later the Indus river in Attock city in northern Punjab, Pakistan. ... Wali Gul, 46, told how he and almost everyone in his village had been forced to abandon their homes a decade ago following severe flooding.
ReliefWeb
April 18, 2018
Further, nearly 600 people have been displaced from Chal Konbad, Didrart and Qail Dal villages of Khwaja Umari District to the Ghazni District of Ghazni Province due to armed conflict. Northern & North-Eastern Region: Displacement of around 1,000 people has been reported to Kunduz City from IshanÃâà...
IRINnews.org
April 14, 2018
Soon after, Russia announced that the Syrian flag was flying over the town, which had been the last rebel holdout in besieged Eastern Ghouta. .... The burgeoning tent and shanty cities in eastern Afghanistan's Nangarhar Province have become a teeming microcosm for the country's chronic displacementÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 11, 2018
A Nangarhar man has been arrested in connection with the death of at least six members of his uncle's family, local officials said Wednesday. Officials said the man killed ... over a domestic dispute. According to police, this suspect, Noor Mohammad, shot his family in PD5, in Abdulhaq area of Jalalabad city.
TOLOnews
April 8, 2018
Meanwhile residents and civil activists in Kunar and Nangarhar province also announced their support for Helmand protestors' peace campaign. Nearly 200 people gathered at the Sherzai Stadium in Jalalabad city in Nangarhar province on Sunday were they also launched a sit-in protest in support ofÃâà...
Xinhua
April 5, 2018
Afghan security force members stand near bodies of two militants of Islamic State in Jalalabad city, capital of Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, April 5, 2018. ... The operation was launched in Ghulamdag village of Chaparhar district of the province Wednesday, leaving two Daesh or IS members dead andÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 3, 2018
Since mid-March, more than 1,200 displaced people arrived in Kabul City from Logar, Nangarhar, Jawzjan and Faryab provinces. North & North-Eastern Region: Some 4,200 people were reportedly displaced in Baharak and Jorm districts of Badakhshan, according to sources on the ground, due to aÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 3, 2018
Another suicide attack killed at least 14 and wounded 42 at a sports event in Lashkar Ghah the capital city of southern Helmand province, on March 23. ... forces (ANDSF) for the death of at least eight civilians during a military operation in Chaprahar district of eastern Nangarhar province, on March 17.
Voice of America
April 2, 2018
... capital city of southern Helmand province, on March 23. No group has claimed responsibility for that attack. CPAG also blamed the Afghan national security and defense forces (ANDSF) for the death of at least eight civilians during a military operation in Chaprahar district of eastern Nangarhar province,Ãâà...
New York Times
April 1, 2018
The provinces of Ghor and Herat in the west, Badakhshan in the northeast, and Nangarhar in the east had the highest number of schools without ... “Even inside the city, and the centers of the districts, we have schools that lack buildings,” said Rohullah Mohaqeq, the provincial director of education inÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 1, 2018
At least one person was killed and three people were wounded in an explosion in Jalalabad City in Nangarhar province on Saturday evening. Nangarhar governor spokesman Ataullah Khogyani confirmed the explosion and said one person was killed and three others wounded. The explosion occurred at a market in PD1Ãâà...
TOLOnews
March 31, 2018
At least one person was killed and three people were wounded in an explosion in Jalalabad City in Nangarhar province on Saturday evening. Nangarhar governor spokesman Ataullah Khogyani confirmed the explosion and said one person was killed and three others wounded. The explosion occurred atÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
March 21, 2018
THREE people were killed and eight others were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced on a motorcycle by unidentified militants, detonated in the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on 19 March shortly after a rally for former Hizb-i-Islami - Gulbuddin (HIG)Ãâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
March 20, 2018
A power line linking two major cities in Afghanistan is being sabotaged by protestors angry that they lack access to electricity themselves, an IWPR ... The line supplying power from the Naghlo dam, a hydroelectric plant in the Sarubi district of Kabul to the city of Jalalabad in the eastern Nangarhar province,Ãâà...
TOLOnews
March 19, 2018
Just one hour earlier, another motorcycle bombing took place – in Jalalabad city in Nangarhar. This explosion happened shortly after 1pm on Monday, killing at least three people. Nangarhar governor's spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani said three people had been killed and eight people wounded in thisÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 19, 2018
Palika Bazaar is a busy city of New Delhi, where a major metro station exists and a large number of people visit the city's ornamental park. ... “I salute the humanity of Afghan Chacha, he comes everyday here entertain his fans, He is really a gift from Jalalabad (capital of Nangarhar province) to India,” heÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 19, 2018
(HIA) were killed and eight others wounded in a blast in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, an official said. Governor's spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told Pajhwok Afghan News the explosion occurred near Behsud Bridge in first police district of Jalalabad city this noon.
Xinhua
March 19, 2018
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, March 19 (Xinhua) -- At least three people were killed and eight others injured as a motorbike bomb rocked Jalalabad city, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, spokesman for provincial government Attaullah Khogiani said. According to the official, the terroristsÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 19, 2018
Just one hour earlier, another motorcycle bombing took place – in Jalalabad city in Nangarhar. This explosion happened shortly after 1pm on Monday, killing at least three people. Nangarhar governor's spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani said three people had been killed and eight people wounded in thisÃâà...
New York Times
March 19, 2018
On Saturday morning, an elite unit of the Afghan intelligence agency — possibly accompanied by advisers from the American-led NATO coalition — descended on two villages in Chaparhar district in the eastern province of Nangarhar, killing as many as eight farmers in their fields, local elders said. “It was 4Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 19, 2018
In the early hours of Saturday, as farmers watered their crops in Afghanistan's eastern province of Nangarhar, a unit of the Afghan security and intelligence forces carried out a deadly raid. At least seven farmers were killed in the assault on two villages in the province's Chaparhar district. "We heardÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 18, 2018
The area is home to 5,000 residents who escaped Daesh in Abdulkhail village in Achin district and moved to the area. ... drinking water for 10 AFs for each bottle from the municipality, but we bring water for other uses from the river and other places,” said Ali Jan, a resident of Ghoraki district in Nangarhar.
Kansas City Star
March 11, 2018
In a separate report, seven civilians — including three children and two women — were killed on Sunday night in eastern Nangarhar province when their vehicle was hit by a grenade, said Attahullah Khogyani, spokesman for the provincial governor. Khogyani said two other people in the vehicle wereÃâà...
Xinhua
March 9, 2018
Suspected Taliban militants stand handcuffed in Jalalabad city, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Sept. 18, 2017. Afghan security personnel captured 13 suspected Taliban militants during an operation in Nangarhar province, a local official said. (Xinhua/Rahman Safi). UNITED NATIONS, March 8 (Xinhua)Ãâà...
TOLOnews
March 7, 2018
The explosion happened in PD1 of Jalalabad City at around 3:00pm on Wednesday. A security guard for Haqqani was also killed in the explosion, the Nangarhar governor's spokesman Attaullah Khogyani confirmed. He said civilians were also among those wounded in the attack. No group has so far claimed responsibilityÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 7, 2018
... left another 16 people injured in this capital city of eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday. The suicide bomber blew himself up close to Abdul Zahir Haqqani's vehicle in the third municipality district of Jalalabad this afternoon, the governor spokesman Attaullah Khogyani told Pajhwok Afghan News.
TOLOnews
March 5, 2018
Nangarhar Police Chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi said the two Pakistanis and dozens of others were arrested in connection with criminal and terrorist activities in the past month in different parts of the province especially in Jalalabad city. This comes after a number of residents raised concerns over theÃâà...
TOLOnews
March 5, 2018
Nangarhar Police Chief Abdul Rahman Rahimi said the two Pakistanis and dozens of others were arrested in connection with criminal and terrorist activities in the past month in different parts of the province especially in Jalalabad city. This comes after a number of residents raised concerns over theÃâà...
MENAFN.COM
March 3, 2018
(MENAFN - Pajhwok Afghan News) JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Some villages in eastern Nangarhar and Laghman provinces have been purged of ... The offensives were conducted in the Goshta district of Nangarhar and some areas of Mehtarlam, the capital of Laghman, said the 201st Selab Military CorpsÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
March 1, 2018
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Four-day matches began among zonal teams at the Ghazi Amanullah Khan Cricket Stadium in this capital city of eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday what officials said the first of its kindfirst class national cricket tournament . Six zonal teams, including the Kabul info-icon zoneÃâà...
TOLOnews
February 24, 2018
Surkh Road residents, from Nangarhar province, have voiced their concern over growing insecurity in their once safe district, saying Taliban activity has increased dramatically in the past two years. According to the residents, security has noticeably deteriorated in the area, which is close to Jalalabad city,Ãâà...
TOLOnews
February 20, 2018
An explosion ripped through PD2 in Jalalabad city, in the eastern province of Nangarhar, at about mid-day on Tuesday, killing at least three people, local officials confirmed. Provincial governor's spokesman Attaullah Khogyani said at least three people were killed in the blast, which happened in a busyÃâà...
Kansas City Star
February 20, 2018
A bomb went off in a hotel room in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province on Tuesday, killing three tribal elders, while Afghan officials reported that at ... Mehri, spokesman for the Farah governor, said two police checkpoints came under attack overnight, one in Bala Buluk district and one near Farah city.
TOLOnews
February 4, 2018
Nangarhar media office said on Sunday that a Taliban's recruitment officer and a member of the group were arrested in the province. According to Nangarhar officials, Mawlawi Rafiullah, who is a resident of Khogyani district of Nangarhar province, was arrested in PD4 in Jalalabad city. Officials said Mullah Saber, anotherÃâà...
IHS Jane's 360
February 2, 2001
AT LEAST three tribal elders were killed and two others were wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED), emplaced by unidentified militants, detonated on the second floor of a hotel where the elders were staying in the city of Jalalabad in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province on 20 February,Ãâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 31, 1999
JALALABAD (Pajhwok): Doctors in eastern Nangarhar province say they daily received threats of kidnapping from unknown callers who demand money. Physicians Defense Association (PDA) in Nangarhar said on Sunday that at least two doctors were threatened on a daily basis and even attacked inÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
A fourth attack took place on Sunday afternoon, when three guards outside Nangarhar University in the eastern city of Jalalabad took a break for worship. Gunmen ... The girls' high school in Logar Province, in a village in Mohammad Agha District, was attacked on April 11 by gunmen who beat up the nightÃâà...
Pajhwok Afghan News (blog)
December 31, 1999
He said another survey was underway to construct a “new Jalalabad City” in 21,000 acres of land from Barikab to Pavi-Kando area. The urban development director also said strategies about shifting warehouses from inside the police headquarters and the central jail elsewhere and removing illegal busÃâà...
IRINnews.org
December 31, 1999
In Nangarhar Province, wracked by insecurity and a prime destination for people returning from neighbouring Pakistan, almost one million people now live in these ... Today, his family lives in a tent in a crowded compound in Behsud, alongside others from his village who joined him on the midnight exodus.
TOLOnews
December 31, 1999
Meanwhile residents and civil activists in Kunar and Nangarhar province also announced their support for Helmand protestors' peace campaign. Nearly 200 people gathered at the Sherzai Stadium in Jalalabad city in Nangarhar province on Sunday were they also launched a sit-in protest in support ofÃâà...
ReliefWeb
December 31, 1999
In February, tens of thousands of unregistered Afghan refugees forcibly went back to fragile areas in Afghanistan. To address their needs and those of other displaced families, Cordaid expands its response in Nangarhar and Urozgan provinces. At the same time, we urge governments not to forcibly returnÃâà...
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