Baghlan, Afghanistan News

Afghanistan's National Directorate of Security captured three Taliban fighters who were part of an assassination cell that killed several high-level Afghan officials in the north.

Pajhwok 02/06/2012 By Habibur Rahman Shirzay [Printer Friendly Version] PUL-I-KHUMRI - Nearly 4,000 children have been deprived of education in the Baghlan-i-Markazi district of northern Baghlan province due to insecurity, an official on Monday.

Another horrific case of violence against women in Afghanistan came to light Monday when authorities reported that a husband in a northern province, angry that his wife had not yet borne him a son, strangled her soon after she gave birth to their third child.

PanARMENIAN.Net - Afghan police were on Monday, January 30 hunting a man who allegedly killed his wife after she gave birth to the couple's third daughter, an official said.

Fifty more militants surrender to the government in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan, a provincial police source said Sunday, Xinhua reported.

Jan. 24, 2012: A former Taliban militant, left, shakes hands with a police official during a joining ceremony with the Afghan government in Baghlan, north of Kabul, Afghanistan.

KHUMRI, Afghanistan, Jan 25 -- A total of 40 Taliban insurgents surrendered to government in Baghlan province with Pul-e-Khumri as its capital, some 160 km north of capital city of Kabul, China's Xinhua news agency reported quoting a police official as saying on Wednesday.

Page 1 of 2 An Uzbek struggle in name only By J Z Adams The Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan in November released on its website, alfurqon.com, a list of its "martyrs" of 2011.

Addressing French diplomats after an Afghan security source said four soldiers had been killed and 17 wounded by an Afghan soldier in the Taghab valley of eastern Kapisa province, Sarkozy confirmed that the dead were French.

A combined Afghan and coalition security force called in an airstrike that killed two insurgents in the Manduzai district of Afghanistan's Khost province today, military officials reported.