Ayub Gharwal, the deputy head of the provincial council of Afghanistan’s eastern Paktia province, was assassinated in a shooting attack on Saturday, Mumtaz Karokhel, a member of the Paktia provincial council, said. Gharwal was approached by unidentified gunmen on the morning of Saturday as he was walking from his office ...
Afghanistan’s vice president Amrullah Saleh sustained minor injuries Wednesday when his convoy was targeted in Kabul in an explosion that killed at least 10 people and wounded more than a dozen, officials said. The attack was quickly condemned as an attempt to frustrate the Afghan peace process, coming as the ...
