ISLAMABAD – Heavy fighting has started between Taliban fighters and anti-Taliban resistance forces based in the Panjshir valley after talks between the two sides failed to resolve their differences. A resistance spokesman claims a Taliban offensive was repulsed with the Taliban suffering heavy losses. The resistance is led by Ahmad Masood, son of well-known anti-Taliban […]
KABUL – At least 40 members of a wedding party, including women and children, were killed and another 13 wounded in an airstrike in southern Afghanistan Sunday night, according to a provincial council member from Helmand province. Haji Abdul Majed Akhund told VOA that the residents of Musa Qala district, the site of the attack, […]
FERGUSON, MISSOURI—Police in Ferguson, Missouri clashed briefly with protesters outside their headquarters Wednesday night. At least four protesters were arrested. The incident comes as the St. Louis suburb remains tense ahead of a grand jury decision about whether a white police officer will be charged in the fatal shooting of a black teenager. Somewhere between […]