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May 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: Explosions rocked central Kabul for five hours after Taliban gunmen launched a major suicide and gun attack centred on a compound of the International Organization for Migration, an aid agency. There are still conflicting reports on the number of casualties in the attack on Friday, but Al Jazeera has learned that at least one police officer was killed, alongside four gunmen... Full news...
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May 23, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A top human rights organization on Wednesday said thousands of Afghan civilians continue to suffer from “targeted and indiscriminate attacks” by armed militant groups. Amnesty International, in its global review of human rights issues, said quoted figures from the UN, which held militants responsible for 80 percent of the 2,700 civilians killed last year. Full news...
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May 22, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least 17 schoolgirls were brought to hospital for possible poisoning in central Bamyan province on Wednesday, a day after 75 schoolgirls fell sick after a suspected poisonous gas attack in northern Faryab province, officials said. The Bamyan Girls’ High School students started vomiting and fell unconscious after smelling gas at their classrooms in the morning... Full news...
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May 21, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: The Afghan government should take urgent steps to halt an alarming increase in women and girls imprisoned for “moral crimes,” Human Rights Watch said today. Commitments by senior government officials to end such abuses have had little practical impact. Statistics from Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry indicate that the number of women and girls imprisoned for... Full news...
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May 20, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: Archaeologists just south of Kabul are racing to preserve one of the richest Buddhist historical sites ever found. The ancient monasteries and statues in Mes Aynak are under threat from a Chinese company which plans to develop the area in order to tap into the world’s second largest copper deposit. Full news...
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May 18, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalPost: Afghanistan’s parliament has blocked women’s rights legislation approved by President Hamid Karzai in 2009, claiming that it is un-Islamic. The Elimination of Violence Against Women Law, or EVAL, which requires parliamentary support to pass, aims to prevent violence against women, child marriages, and forced marriages. Full news...
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May 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: At least nine people were killed and more than 55 others wounded Friday evening when two back-to-back explosions rocked Kandahar city, capital of the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, a provincial government spokesman said. “The initial reports said that three police officers and six civilians had died and over 55 wounded in two explosions which took place in Hyno area of the city Friday evening,”... Full news...
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May 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Daily Beast: The impeachment of Afghan Finance Minister Omar Zakhilwal, on charges of accusing M.P.s of smuggling, began like any other. Zakhilwal patiently listened to members of Parliament ask their questions—about budget cuts, nepotism in his ministry, and tax evasion by large companies. Full news...
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May 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CBS News: As the U.S. military continues its exodus from Afghanistan, the long war has caused another exodus few know about in the U.S. Thousands of mostly teenage boys have fled their war-torn country to embark on a 10,000-mile trek to Europe that most will not complete -- many because they die along the route. Anderson Cooper reports on one of the largest child migrations in modern times on 60 MINUTES, Sunday, May 19 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. Full news...
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May 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A suicide car bombing tore through a U.S. convoy during rush hour in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 15 people, including six U.S. military advisers and two children, officials said. U.S. soldiers rushed to the scene to help, including some wearing only T-shirts or shorts under their body armor. Full news...
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May 15, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than 2,000 residents of Dehsabz district on Wednesday staged a violent protest against the no-payment of their land seized by the government, officials said. The two-hour protest erupted at 9am on the Pul-i-Charkhi-Airport road, hurling stones at police and journalists, injuring the deputy police chief, Brig. Gen. Daud Amin, and a photographer of Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 14, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Alternet: The recent revelation that the Central Intelligence Agency has handed tens of millions of dollars over to the offices of the president of Afghanistan should come as no surprise. The CIA has a long history of this sort of activity. And most importantly, it’s the latest reminder of how America’s global “war on terror” has been forged through backroom deals, cold hard cash and the fostering of corruption. Full news...
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May 14, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Bulletin: 150 girls got poisoned by a toxic gas at their high school in Afghanistan’s northern state of Balkh. The teachers and students of the Kharti Khorasan Girls’ High School in Mazar-i-Sharif were hospitalized after they got poisoned by a toxic gas which was sprayed at their classrooms. Full news...
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May 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: A roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan has killed at least 10 civilians, including women and children, police say. The vehicle the victims were travelling in hit an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kandahar province. About 12 other people were injured in the blast. Full news...
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May 12, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Afghanistan has accused Iran of holding as many as 21 migrant Afghan workers following a border shooting incident over the weekend and has filed a formal complaint to Tehran, an official said Sunday. According to local accounts, Iranian border guards opened fire on the Afghan laborers on Friday as they tried to cross the boundary illegally looking for work... Full news...
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May 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: According to local authorities in western Farah province of Afghanistan, dozens of Afghans were killed or injured after Iranian security forces opened fire on a group of Afghans inside the Iranian soil. The incident took place after a group of Afghans illegally entered Iran from Pashmaki bordering region. Full news...
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May 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Antiwar.com: In a speech yesterday at the New American Foundation, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko revealed that he has been under pressure from officials across several departments for publicizing his audits on waste and fraud in the Afghan War. Full news...
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May 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A man has killed his three-month-old daughter in the Rostakh district of northern Takhar province, a resident claimed on Tuesday. Mohammad Halim, an area dweller, told Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place late on Tuesday in the Sya Aab area of the district. Full news...
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May 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least four civilians were killed and five others injured during a roadside bombing in the Khak-i-Safid district of western Farah province on Sunday, an official said. The explosion took place in Archi area at around 7am, when a car struck the roadside bomb, the town’s administrative head, Abdul Khaliq Nawrozi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 2, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Bloomberg: In the unforgiving Afghan landscape, we have learned that you can’t buy a warlord. You can only rent one. We owe this education to our man in Kabul, President Hamid Karzai. For more than a decade, it has been recently confirmed, U.S. dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and plastic shopping bags have been delivered every month or so to Karzai’s office. Full news...
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May 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A man was detained for sexually assaulting his daughter in northern Baghlan province, where a woman’s a body was also found by the authorities, an official said on Wednesday. The incest took place in Khost district where the accused -- Abdul Alim -- was detained late on Tuesday, the provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Asadullah Sherzad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: A number of girls appear to have been poisoned at a school in the Afghan capital, Kabul. A teacher at the Sultan Razia High School told RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan that students fell ill after smelling some kind of gas when they entered their classrooms on May 1. Full news...
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April 29, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Truthout: A new United Nations report on the state of opium cultivation in Afghanistan reveals a worsening situation, after more than a decade of US and NATO occupation. It confirms the failure of counternarcotics missions in the country. In 2012, poppy cultivation rose for a third year in a row and now extends over 154,000 hectares, an 18 percent increase over 2011. Full news...
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April 28, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency. All told, tens of millions of dollars have flowed from the C.I.A. to the office of President Hamid Karzai, according to current and former advisers to the Afghan leader. Full news...
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April 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Two cases of forced amputations in Afghanistan’s Herat province have served as a grim reminder of Taliban-style justice almost 12 years since the movement was ousted from power. Just over a month ago, Fayz Mohammad and his neighbour Zarin were two ordinary young Afghan men. They held down good jobs as drivers for a local transport company and were happy to be able to feed their families. Full news...
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April 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Center for Public Integrity: The principal food supplier to US troops in Afghanistan is embroiled in a costly dispute with the Pentagon that has attracted congressional interest. The Pentagon allowed a private firm providing food and water to U.S. troops in Afghanistan to overbill taxpayers 757 million USD and awarded the company no-bid contract extensions worth more than 4 billion USD over three years... Full news...
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April 26, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A bus collided on Friday with the wreckage of a truck that had been attacked by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, killing 45 people aboard the bus in a fiery crash, officials said. The battered oil tanker had been left in the middle of a narrow road near the border of Kandahar and Helmand provinces for several days after insurgents attacked it. Police considered the area too dangerous to enter, the officials said. Full news...
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April 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Washington Guardian: Talk about burning taxpayer money! The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers spent more than 5 million USD to have a contractor build two garbage incinerators at a forward-operating base in Afghanistan, but then the military never used the equipment because officials closed out the project and released the contractors before the machines actually worked. Full news...
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April 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Kabul crime branch chief, Lt. Gen. Mohammad Zahir, on Wednesday accused a number of parliamentarians of supporting kidnappers and making efforts to release them from prisons. Addressing a press conference in Kabul, Gen Zahir claimed whenever they arrested kidnappers, members of Wolesi Jirga or Meshrano Jirga overtly launched efforts to have them freed. Full news...
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April 23, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
MSN: Well, everyone, this is the way things are now. Did you know that? Were you prepared to see a video of small children firing guns and presumably being indoctrinated to kill other human beings before they've reached adolescence, because that is what the world is coming to now? Full news...