HELMAND: A top Taliban leader identified as Mawlavi Nematullah, leader of the group’s suicide bombing missions was arrested along with his two colleagues from Lashkargah city in southern Helmand province by intelligence operatives. Khaama , Pajhwok , Tolo News
NOORISTAN: At least 73 Taliban insurgents were killed and 26 others were wounded, including a number of senior commanders and scores of foreign fighters, in airstrikes conducted by the Afghan Air Force and US forces in Afghanistan in Kamdish district of eastern Nuristan province of Afghanistan. Khaama , Pajhwok , Tolo News
KABUL: Twins explosions rocked capital Kabul this afternoon with the preliminary reports suggesting 36 police cadets have lost their lives and 58 others were injured in the attacks carried out in the vicinity of Qala-i-Haider area of Paghman district. Khaama , Pajhwok , Tolo News
NANGARHAR: “The majority of the militants fighting for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group in Afghanistan are coming from Pakistan, Central Asian and Gulf countries”. The National Security Adviser Mohammad Hanif Atmar said, during a visit to the eastern Nangarhar province. Khaama , Pajhwok , Tolo News
GHAZNI: One security official identified as Bakhtiar Gul Paktin, deputy head of National Directorate of Security for the province, was killed and five others were wounded in a Taliban attack on their convoy in the Andar district of southern Ghazni province. Pajhwok
