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July 30, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Taliban kidnappers shot dead a male South Korean hostage on Monday, a spokesman for the group said, accusing the Afghan government of not listening to rebel demands for the release of Taliban prisoners. Full news...
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July 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: An 18-year-old married woman hanged herself to death last night in Baraki Barak district of Logar province. Full news...
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July 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: 'The last day she came to the school, instead of answering the questions, in her Chemistry exam paper she wrote that she would never come to school again', says Frohar about the late Farida. A student of class tenth at Khadijatulkobra high school, located in the center of Kundoz province, Frohar was class-fellow and best friend of 18 year old Farida who has committed suicide on July 11, 2007. Full news...
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July 22, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Mail on Sunday: This week the 64th British soldier to die in Afghanistan, Corporal Mike Gilyeat, was buried. All the right things were said about this brave soldier, just as, on current trends, they will be said about one or more of his colleagues who follow him next week. Full news...
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July 20, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Earth Times: Erstwhile enemies who once stood on the brink of war, Iran and the Taliban now appear linked by conflicts against the US, as officials and political analysts accuse Tehran of training and arming the Afghan insurgents. Full news...
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July 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Flooding, armed conflict and population displacements are factors likely to increase malaria cases in Afghanistan this year, public health officials warn. "In 14 high-risk provinces the number of malaria patients will surpass that of 2006," Abdulwase Ashaa, director of the national anti-malaria department, told IRIN on 19 July in Kabul. Full news...
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July 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Jerusalem Post: Afghanistan's illicit heroin-producing poppy crop set another record this growing season, besting even last year's haul despite stepped-up efforts to combat the trade, the top US official in Afghanistan said Tuesday. Full news...
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July 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Herald Tribune: Afghanistan's government fired a provincial governor days after he said Afghans are distancing themselves from President Hamid Karzai and that a "vacuum of authority" is allowing the Taliban, al-Qaida and other groups to gain power. Full news...
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July 14, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
NPR.org: Congressional analysts say the boost in troop levels in Iraq has increased the cost of war there and in Afghanistan to $12 billion a month. Full news...
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July 11, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Deccan Chronicle: Unable to scrounge together the $165 he needed to repay a loan to buy sheep, Nazir Ahmad made good on his debt by selling his 16-year-old daughter to marry the lender's son. Full news...
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July 10, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: A suicide bomber targeted a NATO patrol in a marketplace filled with children Tuesday, killing 13 elementary school students and at least four other people. The U.N. and NATO quickly condemned the attack for harming so many civilians. Full news...
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July 10, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: With their teacher absent, 10 students were allowed to leave school early. These were the girls the gunmen saw first, 10 easy targets walking hand-in-hand through the blue metal gate and on to the winding dirt road. Full news...
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July 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CTV.ca News: A growing number of Afghan women are attempting to escape a life of abuse by setting themselves on fire, a study by a human rights group has found. Full news...
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July 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CTV News: She was once an attractive girl. Her husband's family paid the equivalent of about $7,000 as a dowry, and at the age of 14, Bora Gul Heha was sent off to get married. She was strong and healthy and would provide the family with many sons and daughters. Full news...
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July 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: More than a hundred civilians were killed and wounded in an operation in the western Farah province, residents alleged on Saturday. Interior Ministry spokesman Zalmay Bashary, however, insisted that 40 Taliban fighters and 11 policemen died during the crackdown conducted against militants in Balabluk district. Full news...
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July 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: An underground prison containing hundreds of bodies has been discovered in Afghanistan. The prison, a former military barracks on the outskirts of the capital, Kabul, dates from the Soviet occupation of the 1980s, officials say. Full news...
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July 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN News: Three out of 10 Afghans suffer from chronic food insecurity, which badly affects the health and well-being of the estimated 27-million nation, said the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Full news...
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July 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Fatama's husband left home one night to smuggle drugs from their mud-thatch border village into Iran. The next morning, her brother-in-law gave her the news: Her husband had been killed. Fatama joined hundreds of other bereaved women in Bunyat, known locally as a "widows village" because so many of its men have died during Afghanistan's long wars, or because of a more recent plague _ the highly profitable but dangerous business of opium and heroin smuggling. Full news...
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July 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: Cumulative compilation of Afghan civilians killed by US/NATO actions. The compilation is derived from the three data bases at http://pubpages.unh.edu/~mwherold. Full news...
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July 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Middle East Times: Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai Sunday ordered a probe into civilian casualties from a foreign military airstrike three days ago, which elders said had killed at least 45 villagers. The elders said they had recovered the bodies of 45 civilians, mostly women and children, from the airstrike Friday, which was aimed at Taliban fighters in Girishk town in Helmand province, district chief Dur Alisha said. Full news...