News Afghanistan Jowzjan: The Taliban Are Letting These Girls Go to School in Afghanistan
After the Taliban returned to power in August 2021, they shut down schools for girls over 6th grade, effectively barring women from getting an education. The decision to keep schools shut for older ...
News Afghanistan Jowzjan: Top Islamic State commander in Afghanistan killed in airstrike: Officials
Qari Hekmat was the top commander of IS’ Afghan franchise in the northern province of Jowzjan, where the group established a stronghold after coming under intense pressure in the eastern province of Nangarhar. | World News
News Afghanistan Jowzjan: Turkmenistan continues its humanitarian assistance to fraternal Afghanistan
NUR-SULTAN. KAZINFORM - A solemn opening ceremony of the railway section with a length of 10 kilometers built in the Akina settlement of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan in assistance of the Government of Turkmenistan, as well as the ground-breaking ceremony of the 35km-long railway branch Akina-Andhoy took place on July 25, 2019. The heads of transport and industrial agencies of Turkmenistan and Afghanistan, hakims, honored elders, representatives of the mass media and local population participated to the events, Kazinform has learnt from the Turkmenistan’s Embassy in Kazakhstan.
News Afghanistan Jowzjan: U.S. Military Calls ISIS in Afghanistan a Threat to the West. Intelligence Officials Disagree.
Neither government officials in Kabul nor foreign forces have ever truly controlled the rural mountain ranges that run along Afghanistan’s eastern border. When the Islamic State grabbed territory in ...
News Afghanistan Jowzjan: Six Red Cross staff killed in Afghanistan
Gunmen have killed six employees of the International Committee of the Red Cross in northern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the aid group said. Ahmad Ramin Ayaz, the group's Kabul-based spokesman, said ...
News Afghanistan Jowzjan: Afghan War Casualty Report: June 28-July 4
July 3 Jowzjan Province: six N.D.S. officers killed When the Taliban ... Eight Independent Election Commission of Afghanistan employees were also reportedly killed. The Taliban killed one police ...
News Afghanistan Jowzjan: Afghan University Teacher, Students Among IS Operatives Arrested in Kabul
Afghan authorities say they have arrested four Islamic State (IS) operatives, including a university teacher, during a counterterrorism raid in Kabul. The arrests come amid recent reports the Middle Eastern terrorist group has grown into a major security challenge for U.S.-backed Afghan forces struggling to contain the Taliban insurgency. Afghanistan's spy agency, National Directorate of Security (NDS), while announcing the arrests, said in a statement the suspects were involved in recruiting fighters for IS and organizing terrorist attacks in and around the capital city. It identified one of
News Afghanistan Jowzjan: Islamic State Militants Head to Afghanistan After Caliphate Collapse
But Resolute Support, the NATO mission in Afghanistan, underestimated the group’s tenacity ... I.S.-K has suffered losses in the northern Jowzjan province but maintains strongholds in Nangarhar and ...
News Afghanistan Jowzjan: After 'caliphate' collapse, jihadists head to Afghanistan to plot attacks
Islamic State fighters who waged a bloody campaign in Syria and Iraq are heading to Afghanistan to continue their jihad and help plot "spectacular" attacks against America, a US official has told AFP. "We know some have already made their way back here and are trying to transfer the knowledge
News Afghanistan Jowzjan: Afghanistan- Ceasefire in Doha talks: Difficult to agree and more difficult to implement
(MENAFN - Afghanistan Times) Whatever type of ceasefire is negotiated ... In northern provinces, after their elimination in Jowzjan province either killed or surrendered to the government forces or to ...
News Afghanistan Jowzjan: Afghan VP warlord who fought with US forces and CIA after 9/11 survives assassination attempt
Given the chance, he said, he could “eliminate” the Taliban from northern Afghanistan in “just six months.” He left Balkh province later that day and was on his way to his native province of Jowzjan ...
