A young man who is a student of the 11th grade of Sheikh Abdul Samad Nazari High School in Anardara district of Farah province, in a creative initiative, built an electric drill and a stone crusher robot.
A Taliban key commander identified as Mullah Nurgul is among four militants who have been confirmed dead in the western Farah province, said an army statement released here Saturday.
At least 10 militants have been killed as government forces backed by warplanes have stormed the Taliban hideouts in the western Afghan province of Farah since Saturday, a provincial police spokesman said on Sunday.
Multiple militants were killed after fierce clashes with Afghan security forces in Farah city, capital of western Farah province, on Friday, local police confirmed.
An Afghan official says four police officers were killed and two others wounded when Taliban militants attacked a security checkpoint in the western province of Farah.
Two Taliban fighters were killed during a raid in Bala Boluk district of Farah province, sources said, as cited by the Khaama Press News Agency. About 1,000 pounds of Hashish and a cache of weapons were destroyed during the operation.
Eight militants have been confirmed dead and nine others sustained injuries as a clash erupted in Pashtrod district of the western Farah province on Sunday, provincial police spokesman Mohibullah Mohib said Monday.
Air strikes in western Afghanistan this week destroyed a number of Taliban drug labs and also killed dozens of civilians, according to reports from local officials that were rejected by the Afghan government.
President Ashraf Ghani on Saturday distributed thousands of residential plots among the inhabitants of western Farah province devastated by the recent flash floods.
A group of Qatari traders has arrived in western Farah province on the first-ever direct flight from their country to inaugurate some development projects.
Twenty policemen have been killed and five others wounded in overnight Taliban attacks in western Farah and northwestern Faryab provinces, sources said on Monday.
The dead bodies of at least nineteen people who lost their lives in an air crash around 38 days ago in western Farah province, were handed over to their families.