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October 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A mass grave that might be decades old, containing dozens of skulls, was found in north Afghanistan on Thursday, Afghan officials said. Villagers discovered the grave in the Rustaq district in the province of Takhar, said Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi, a spokesman for the Takhar governor. Full news...
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October 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: One afternoon this summer, in a park beside the Ajmil River, I sat with seven residents of Shahabuddin, a collection of villages in northern Afghanistan’s Baghlan Province. It was the first week of Ramadan, and the park was almost empty, but still the men — some middle-aged, others stooped and gray-bearded — whispered conspiratorially and became silent whenever anybody walked close. Full news...
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October 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Foreign Policy: Every night throughout Afghanistan, international forces launch kill/capture raids on Afghan homes. Over the past two years, the use of night raids, particularly by US Special Operations Forces, has skyrocketed-increasing at least five-fold since February 2009, indicating an important tactical shift by US and international forces in Afghanistan. Full news...
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October 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN International: From dusk until dawn, 12-year-old Fayaz toils at his uncle’s blacksmith shop in Kabul. While other kids his age are in school, he’s swinging a heavy sledgehammer and doing physically exhausting work that he knows is not meant for a boy. But he doesn't have much choice. It has been that way since he was 7, when his father got sick. Full news...
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October 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Twenty-seven people have been killed and 42 others wounded in recent Pakistani incursions into eastern Kunar province, officials claimed on Monday. A day earlier, President Hamid Karzai said media reports about Pakistani shelling of Afghan areas were exaggerated. Reports about casualties and property damage were played up, he added. Full news...
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October 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: International troops killed three family members of a former senator, Sami Jan Sherzad, and detained two others during a nighttime raid in the central province of Maidan Wardak, officials said on Sunday. Noor Agha, a nephew of Sherzad, was killed along with two daughters, aged 18 and 20 years, during a raid on their house at midnight in the Momad village of Gardan Masjid Valley in Chak district, said a relative of the victims, Hayatullah Halim. Full news...
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October 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An elderly woman was injured when foreign troops raided her house in the northern province of Faryab, officials said on Sunday. The 50-year-old was injured during Saturday’s operation, which was conducted without coordination with local security forces in the Gozar Khwaja Abad village on the outskirts of Maimana, the provincial capital, police chief, Brig. Gen. Syed Ahmad Sami, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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October 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Suspected militants stormed two girls’ schools in the Batikot district of eastern Nangarhar province, destroying one and partially damaging the other, officials said on Sunday. The schools were set on fire in Chahardi and Barikab areas late on Saturday night, district chief, Israrullah Qarizada, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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October 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: In the relentless heat of a summer’s day in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, most people are trying to find some shade, but 11-year-old Mohammad Rafiq is walking the streets carrying a box full of shoe-shining equipment. Dripping with sweat, the boy asks passers-by, “Uncle, may I polish your shoes?” Full news...
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October 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An Afghan civilian was wounded during an exchange of fire between Afghan and Iranian border guards in southwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Thursday. The trade fire took place after Iranian border guards violating Afghanistan’s border wanted to dig a canal in a disputed area, a police officer told Pajhwok Afghan News on condition of anonymity. Full news...
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October 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: An itinerant preacher who had been detained for 12 days by the Afghan intelligence service arrived at a hospital badly beaten, suffering from kidney failure, and slipping in and out of consciousness, said doctors at the hospital and local health clinic where he was treated Thursday. They said they were not sure he would survive. Full news...
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October 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The World: There was no fanfare at the White House Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan. Instead, President Obama issued a written statement. One line in that statement said that in Afghanistan the United States has shown itself to be a “partner with those who seek justice, dignity and opportunity.” And one focus of that partnership is Afghanistan’s shattered justice system. Full news...
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October 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: As many as 315 illegal armed groups are still active in some northern provinces, an official said on Wednesday. A senior official with the Disbandment of Illegal Armed Groups (DIAG) programme, Gen. Abdul Manan, who delivered 22 weapons to the programme officials, said nearly 185 such groups out of 500 have been disarmed in northern provinces. Full news...
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October 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sun Daily: Operation Enduring Freedom – the dreadfully misnamed ten-year US occupation of Afghanistan – has turned into Operation Enduring Misery. The renowned military strategist, Maj Gen J.F.C Fuller, defined war’s true objective as achieving desired political results, not killing enemies. Full news...
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October 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Stop the War Coalition: Afghanistan has been engaged with more than 30 years of war with thousands of civilians killed or injured since 2001. It is under these conditions that children are at extreme risk of violence, abuse, exploitation and neglect. The children of Afghanistan are growing up in one of the least developed countries in the world. Six percent of babies die at birth and 25 percent before their 5th birthday. Full news...
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October 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Journalists in the southeast Afghan province of Nangarhar accuse local government officials of systematically denying them information. Media professionals from the area voiced their concerns at a meeting hosted by IWPR’s provincial office in the town of Jalalabad. Full news...
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October 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Authorities in some Afghan prisons are torturing detainees into confessions, using methods that meet the international definition of torture, according to a new U.N. report. The practices documented “are among the most serious human rights violations under international law, are crimes under Afghan law and are strictly prohibited under both Afghan and international law,” the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says in the report. Full news...
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October 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: On his knees, Nawroz prays. He is a condemned man about to die in a brutal way. His crime: The killing of his lover’s husband. The judge: A local warlord in Kand, Afghanistan. The executioner: The victim’s father. A mobile phone video captured the grisly scene. Many have gathered to watch this act, sitting on dusty earth, in dappled shade. Full news...
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October 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Daily Mail: Jemima Khan joined up to 5,000 people on an anti-Afghanistan war march to mark 10 years since the conflict began. The British writer and campaigner was part of a star-studded crowd who flocked to Trafalgar Square today to protest against the nation’s continued involvement in the war. Other celebrities joining the demonstration were WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange... Full news...
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October 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Today we observe the tenth anniversary of Operation Enduring Freedom, the U.S.-led campaign in Afghanistan. It is an anniversary that is important to many. For the American military and its allies, this is a time to reflect on sacrifices made during this long and difficult war. Full news...
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October 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Hundreds of Afghans marched through Kabul on Thursday, the eve of the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. military campaign in Afghanistan, to condemn the United States as occupiers and demand the immediate withdrawal of all foreign troops. About 300 men and women gathered early in the morning with placards and banners accusing the United States of “massacring” civilians while denouncing President Hamid Karzai as a puppet subservient to Washington. Full news...
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October 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Asif Khan sits on a dirty, once-white blanket in an abandoned cinema and fights back tears of desperation. He can’t find a job for his eldest son, who “even knows computers,” without paying a bribe. He can't afford uniforms, books or pencils for his nine daughters to go to school. And so they all live with him in the old cinema, where mangled rebars dangle like tentacles from the ceiling and a cold wind whips through windows with no glass. Full news...
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October 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: One in three U.S. veterans of the post-9/11 military believes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were not worth fighting, and a majority think that after 10 years of combat America should be focusing less on foreign affairs and more on its own problems, according to an opinion survey released Wednesday. Full news...
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October 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Morning Star: Every day in Afghanistan there are 40 raids carried out by occupying troops on homes of people suspected of “terrorism” or “insurgency.” So every day 40 families suffer the indignity, humiliation and resentment that accompanies the targeting of those classed as terrorists. Afghanistan’s population is comparable to that of the US state of Texas. Full news...
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October 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of western Ghor province approach local militant commanders for dispute resolution as a result of closure of five district courts. Because of insecurity, courts in Charsadda, Dulina, Pasaband, Saghar and Shahrak districts have been shifted to the provincial capital. Resident Mohammadullah said the Shahrak district court was transferred to Chaghcharan due to deteriorating security, forcing people to take their cases to local commanders. Full news...
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October 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Time (Blog): On Nov. 30, 2009, in the shadow of mountains that crumple up 9,000-ft. ridges, an Afghan mercenary bankrolled by the U.S. military and hell-bent on the destruction of Taliban rebels allegedly stopped three men heading home to celebrate ’Id ul-Qurban with their families. According to an elder from Bermal, the Afghan district where the incident took place, Commander Azizullah and his men bound their hands. Full news...
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October 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ICRC: Ten years after the start of a new chapter in Afghanistan’s 30-year war, Afghans remain caught in the midst of continued armed violence. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), security and health care are the biggest humanitarian problems facing the people of Afghanistan today. "Despite improvements in the quality of life for certain sectors of the population over the past decade... Full news...
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October 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA.org: While Sharia law courts have created a lot of controversy in Britain, they would be even more controversial if people found out that Sharia has led to the legalisation of child marriage in 6 countries. As the vast majority of people seem to be unaware of Sharia’s child marriage dimension, this article only uses mainstream media articles, the UN, a major opinion poll company’s Sharia law polling data... Full news...
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October 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RAWA News: It is strange that some communists have decided to make common cause with Islamists against democracies, because Al-Qaeda’s murderous ideology, which influences other Islamists, was partly inspired by the murderous fascist ideology of Hitler, Mussolini, and Franco, as I will now explain. Full news...
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October 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World War 4 Report: It is nonetheless sickening for being de rigueur to hear Barack Obama mourning the death of the war criminal Burhanuddin Rabbani as a “tragic loss.” Rabbani had recently been appointed to lead a “High Peace Council” to start negotiations with the Taliban. He was killed at his home in Kabul by a visitor with explosives hidden in his turban. Full news...
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