cross-referenced news and research resources about
cities, towns and villages of Vardak, Afghanistan
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updated Sat. December 2, 2023
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TOLOnews
April 27, 2018
One member of Logar Provincial Council said Taliban and other insurgent groups are active in parts of all the six districts in the province, including Pul-e-Alam city – the provincial capital. “The military operations which are conducted at nights are carried out by '01 Unit' from Kabul, independently andÃâà...
Long War Journal
April 25, 2018
Taliban march in the desert with flags flying, then march through a town in Baghlan in broad daylight. Video from #Taliban's report on Mullah Akhtar Muhammad Mansour Camp in Baghlan province #Afghanistan: pic.twitter.com/8BAH0lI5ad. — Long War Journal (@LongWarJournal) April 24, 2018.
ReliefWeb
April 17, 2018
This displacement originated from Barakibarak District within Logar, and Syedabad District in Maidan Wardak Province. ... Northern & North-Eastern Region: Displacement of around 1,000 people has been reported to Kunduz City from Ishan Tub area of Khanabad District, within Kunduz Province due toÃâà...
TOLOnews
April 13, 2018
The center of Khwaja Omari district is 10kms far from Ghazni City and shares a border with Jaghato district of Wardak province. “They (Taliban) came and set fire to the district governor's office, killed 30 people, took some equipment of the district with them. Then what is the meaning of a collapse?” askedÃâà...
Syrian War Daily (blog)
April 12, 2018
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan conducted a suicide attack against the Afghan National Army's base in Nirkh district. Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's Al-Emarah News claimed that “eyewitnesses” saw over 30 killed elements, while the Afghan National Police's spokesman for Maidan Wardak Province,Ãâà...
Reliefweb
April 12, 2018
KABUL: Some residents of central Maidan Wardak province have accused Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers of harassing and misbehaving with innocent civilians. Matiullah, a resident of the Kashmir Qala area of Maidan Shahar, told Pajhwok Afghan News soldiers on the Kabul-Kandahar highwayÃâà...
KUOW News and Information
April 5, 2018
The new work, he writes, “seeks to provide a thorough, reliable history of how the CIA, ISI, and Afghan intelligence agencies influenced the rise of a new war in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban, and how that war fostered a revival of Al Qaeda, allied terrorist networks, and eventually, branches of theÃâà...
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
April 4, 2018
Arrested on March 2, 2018 in the Karta-e-Chahr area of Kabul city, he says he will be pleading guilty to the crime. Naeem told IWPR that he ... The 32-year-old, originally from Wardak province, said, “I couldn't find a job in Afghanistan, so I went to Iran where I started working in a factory. I also began usingÃâà...
Reliefweb
April 2, 2018
Central Region: Nearly 1,500 people arrived in Ghazni centre from within Ghazni Province, and from Uruzgan and Wardak provinces, according to authorities, due to ongoing armed clashes. Since mid-March, more than 1,200 displaced people arrived in Kabul City from Logar, Nangarhar, Jawzjan andÃâà...
ReliefWeb
April 2, 2018
Central Region: Nearly 1,500 people arrived in Ghazni centre from within Ghazni Province, and from Uruzgan and Wardak provinces, according to authorities, due to ongoing armed clashes. Since mid-March, more than 1,200 displaced people arrived in Kabul City from Logar, Nangarhar, Jawzjan andÃâà...
Newsweek
March 28, 2018
Taliban fighters stand on a hillside in Wardak province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on September 26, 2008. STR/AFP/Getty Images ... Bin Laden had been living in a large compound in the city of Abbottabad, home to the Pakistani Military Academy and many retired military officers. Many commentatorsÃâà...
Reliefweb
March 26, 2018
Afghanistan imports about 300 megawatts of electricity for these provinces from neighboring Central Asian states of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Officials at state-run De Afghanistan Breshna Shirkat electricity providing authority told VOA the Taliban attack disrupted supply to Kabul, Parwan, Maidan Wardak,Ãâà...
Christian Science Monitor
March 14, 2018
March 14, 2018 Kabul, Afghanistan—Her body shaking and tears flowing, Maghul is the epitome of what it means to be among the latest crop of war victims in Afghanistan. Taliban militants came to her town in central Wardak province in mid-2017, and during battle with the Afghan police, burned her homeÃâà...
Progressive.org
March 1, 2018
The night before, over dinner, one of the students discussed news from his home town in Afghanistan's Wardak province about U.S. aerial attacks. “The blasts have become so frequent,” he said, “that people can't find spaces to bury their dead.” During breaks in the class, I tell some of the Afghan PeaceÃâà...
Stars and Stripes
February 28, 2018
The attack occurred on a connecting route from the town of Baraki Barak to Wardak province, according to the indictment. The Army said that Chandler was killed by small arms fire in Baraki Barak district in April 2014. The only other U.S. soldier to die in combat in Logar province in 2014 was Danyluk.
TOLOnews
February 19, 2018
However, TOLOnews' journalist in the province says the governor's compound in Aibak city, the provincial capital, is under heavy guard by security forces. ... Anwar Khan Ishaqzai has been appointed as governor for central Logar province, Dr. Shajehan for central Maidan Wardak province and Abdul LatifÃâà...
ReliefWeb
February 19, 2018
Central Region: More than 2,100 people displaced from Nerkh and Jalrez districts to the provincial capital of Wardak Province, sparked by armed clashes ... NR/NER: Nearly 5,355 displaced families received humanitarian assistance in Kunduz city, following displacements from Chardara district (3,808Ãâà...
TOLOnews
February 12, 2018
Officials from the Afghan National Army (ANA) on Monday said troops are advancing their military campaign against Taliban operatives in the volatile region of Logar province in a move to eliminate insurgent strongholds. They said army forces have dealt major blows to the Taliban in some key areas ofÃâà...
Syrian War Daily (blog)
February 8, 2018
Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army reportedly repelled Syrian Democratic Forces' YPG attack on Jabal al-Azz in Rajo subdistrict. According to the Free Syrian Army's Tajammu Ahrar al-Sharqiya, rebels seized two TOW anti-tank guided missiles, two RPGs, and three assault rifles from the encounter.
Syrian War Daily (blog)
February 7, 2018
NATO-led Operation Resolute Support reported that it conducted several strikes against the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in the province. ... Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's improvised explosive devices destroyed Afghan National Army's tank and killed five soldiers in the city of Pol-e Alam, capital of LogarÃâà...
Yeni Şafak English
February 4, 2018
Similar raids were carried out a day earlier as well in all these provinces and in Kandahar, Ghazni and Maidan Wardak provinces that left more than 50 suspected militants killed.The Jan. 27 attack in Kabul left more than 100 people killed and over 200 others wounded when a Taliban suicide bomberÃâà...
Kuwait News Agency
February 2, 2018
Around 30 rebels were killed in the operation in Khwaja Sabz Posh district of Faryab province, five others in Waza Khwa district of southeastern Paktika ... explosives and weapons during the operations, launched days after three major attacks by rebels in Afghan capital city Kabul killing over 150 peopleÃâà...
Xinhua
January 14, 2018
MAIDAN SHAHR, Afghanistan, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- 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 SayedÃâà...
ThinkProgress
December 31, 1999
Unlike Gul Agha and his friend, Hossein hails from Bamiyan, considered to be one of the “safest” Afghan provinces, but the roads leading from Kabul to the central province — which cut through the provinces of Maidan Wardak and Parwan — are among two of the most dangerous in the country. “I guess IÃâà...
Syrian War Daily (blog)
December 31, 1999
Islamic State conducted a suicide attack on a representative office of the civilian population in Dasht Barchi district of the city of Kabul. Afghan Ministry of Public Health stated that 62 civilians were killed and 119 wounded by the attack, while the Islamic State's Amaq Agency stated that the attack targeted anÃâà...
Syrian War Daily (blog)
December 31, 1999
Syrian Civil Defense's (The White Helmets) elements demonstrated in the city of Azaz, due to not receiving salaries for more than three months. ... Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan attacked an Afghan National Police's station in the city of Jalalabad, capital of Nangarhar Province. ... Maidan Wardak Province:.
International Business Times
December 31, 1999
Helicopter Crash A helicopter crash near Smethport, McKean County, Pennsylvania, killed two people onboard Sunday afternoon. This representational photo shows the site of a NATO helicopter crash on the outskirts of Wardak city in Wardak province, Afghanistan, March 23, 2010. Photo: Getty Images/Ãâà...
Xinhua
December 31, 1999
In eastern Wardak province, four militants were killed in a similar attack on the outskirts of provincial capital Maidan Shar city, 35 km west of Kabul, on the same day, according to the statement. In an unrelated development, seven Taliban militants surrendered to the provincial government in western HeratÃâà...
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