ISIS Radio Station Bombed Off Afghanistan's FM Airwaves

AP's Afghanistan bureau chief chronicles a fast-changing story.

Lynne O'DonnellAt the beginning of January, AP Afghanistan bureau chief Lynne O’Donnell (pictured) wrote about Voice of the Caliphate, a mobile ISIS radio station launched in late 2015. She noted that ISIS had taken out a pair of competitors in Jalalabad in October and also attacked the offices of Voice of America and the Pajhwok news agency in July:

IS radio can be heard across Nangarhar on an FM frequency for 90 minutes a day in both the Pashto and Dari languages.

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