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August 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of southeastern Paktia province protested against Afghan and foreign security forces on Thursday, a day after a civilian was killed by a mortar shell during a firefight between militants and coalition troops. Angered by the civilian death in the Zazai Aryub district, some 300 men blocked the Zazai Aryub-Gardez highway as a mark of protest. Full news...
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August 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
National Journal: The number of IED attacks in Afghanistan has spiked to all-time high, U.S. military officials said, because of the free flow of critical bomb-making materials from neighboring Pakistan. Senior military officials said there were more than 1,600 strikes involving so-called “improvised explosive devices” in June, setting a new record for the long Afghan war, and underscoring the dangers posed by militants operating inside both of the troubled countries. Full news...
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July 31, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: Civilians are bearing the brunt of the international forces’ onslaught against the Taliban as the coalition rushes to pacify Afghanistan before pulling out its troops, it was claimed last night. Human rights groups warned that civilians are paying an increasingly high price for “reckless” coalition attacks, particularly aerial ones. Full news...
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July 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Ali Ahmad, 19, and Samira, 18, were walking down a street in Herat in western Afghanistan when a police car suddenly drew up in front of them and officers got out to question them about the nature of their relationship. The young couple explained that they were engaged and due to marry soon, and had come out together – with the permission of both their families – to discuss their future together. Full news...
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July 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Roadside mines have killed 23 civilians in southern Afghanistan, with a minibus and a tractor struck separately by explosives in Helmand province, according to officials. The minibus was travelling from Nahr-e-Saraj district to the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, when it hit a mine and all 19 people inside were killed, said Kamaluddin Shirzai, deputy police chief for Helmand. Full news...
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July 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Afghan education officials have promised to take action after members of the small Hindu and Sikh communities said their children were being forced to drop out of state schools because of bullying. Opinion is divided, however, on whether separate minority schools are the best way forward. “When our children go to the government schools, they face problems,” Ravinder Singh, a Sikh community leader in the capital Kabul, said. Full news...
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July 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: French soldiers serving with Nato forces in Afghanistan have shot dead three civilians, officials say. The victims - a man, a pregnant woman and a child - were travelling in a car that failed to stop at a checkpoint in northern Kapisa province. The French ambassador has apologised, but President Karzai said no apology could bring back the dead and he called on Nato to protect civilians. Full news...
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July 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Across Afghanistan there are about 850 children in juvenile rehabilitation centers who lack access to adequate food, health and education, and there is inadequate coordination among aid groups trying to help, a senior official said on Tuesday. Mohammad Seddi Seddiqi, head of the Juvenile Rehabilitation Center department at the Ministry of Justice... Full news...
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July 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three civilians, including two students, were killed and six others wounded late on Monday in a clash between foreign troops and Taliban in eastern Kunar province, officials said on Tuesday. Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi told Pajhwok Afghan News that Taliban attacked an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) base in the Watapur district. Full news...
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July 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: This month, as the Pentagon and the CIA countenance a changing of the guard – welcoming Defence Secretary Leon Panetta and CIA Director David Petraeus, respectively – it is worth pressing pause on national security strategy before our modus operandi becomes any more politically disconcerting, morally disheartening and financially devastating. Full news...
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July 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Five Afghan children were injured in a strike carried out by a British Apache attack helicopter, the Ministry of Defence has said. They were working in a field in the Nahr-e-Saraj area of Helmand Province on Saturday as UK forces targeted an insurgent riding a motorcycle nearby. Full news...
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July 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: Insurgents in southern Afghanistan hanged an 8-year-old boy six days after they abducted him, the Afghan government said Sunday. The boy’s captors had demanded that his father, a police officer, supply them with a police vehicle and he refused, said a statement from President Hamid Karzai’s office. The militants hanged the boy Friday in Helmand province's Gereshk district. Full news...
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July 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Graan Afghanistan (Translated by RAWA): The hard political, military and social conditions that Afghanistan is facing today, has affected the whole society and children have turned to one of the biggest victims of this turmoil. Last week, a roadside bomb killed at least ten children and before this Afghan children have been mistakenly targeted in NATO airstrikes. Full news...
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July 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: NATO-led troops killed a lady doctor along with two family members in the Syedabad district of central Wardak province, the Ghazni Civil Hospital director alleged on Saturday. Dr. Ismayeel Ibrahimzai told Pajhwok Afghan News that Dr. Aqila Hekmat, in charge of the maternity ward, her 18-year-old son and nephew were killed late on Friday, when ISAF soldiers fired at their vehicle. Full news...
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July 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: Government officials in eastern Afghanistan accused NATO troops on Thursday of killing six civilians in an overnight raid, and more than 1,000 people poured into the streets in anger. The military alliance said the joint patrol with Afghan forces in Khost province killed six fighters from a militant group allied with the Taliban known as the Haqqani network and injured one civilian. Full news...
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July 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: The U.N. says the number of Afghan civilians killed in bombings and other attacks is up 15 percent from the same period last year. The figures reflect concern that Afghan civilians are increasingly being caught up in violence in the conflict-ridden country. Full news...
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July 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of people, including women, attended a Monday rally in Jalalabad to protest cross-border attacks from Pakistan. Nearly 500 people took to the streets chanting anti-Pakistan slogans to protest the shelling that has killed scores of people and displaced hundreds of others in the eastern provinces of Kunar, Nangarhar and Khost. Full news...
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July 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A NATO airstrike killed at least 13 civilians, mostly women and children, in the Doa Manda district of southeastern Khost province, an official said on Thursday. The early morning airstrike on Wednesday was carried out in Kamalkhel village of Syedkhel area at around 4am, the district police chief, Lf. Hameedullah, told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said all the dead were civilians and belonged to the same family. Full news...
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July 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: ISAF has launched a joint investigation with the Afghan Interior and Defence Ministries into reports of civilian casualties resulting from a coalition airstrike in Ghazni province Tuesday night, according to a statement delivered to Pajhwok Afghan News Thursday. Full news...
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July 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of people took to the streets here on Tuesday to condemn cross- border attacks into eastern Kunar province from Pakistan. Pakistani forces have been firing rockets, missiles and artillery shells into villages in Kunar. So far a number of people have been killed and wounded and hundreds more displaced by the shelling. Full news...
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July 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: At least 25 people were injured Sunday when a man on a motorbike hurled a grenade at a high school in northern Afghanistan, an official said. The blast injured at least 17 students at the school -- three of them seriously -- said Ahmad Jawed Bedar, a spokesman for the governor of Faryab province. Full news...
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June 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: A new report issued by Brown University says the cost of America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - and operations in Pakistan - will cost the country nearly 4 trillion USD. The report’s total is more than three times higher than U.S. President Barack Obama’s estimate in a recent speech. Full news...
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June 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least five civilians were killed and nine others wounded in a NATO airstrike in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Wednesday, witnesses said. The air raid was carried out in Salar village of the district in the afternoon, Haji Arif, the owner of a private security firm, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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June 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: More than 250,000 people have been displaced in the last two years of fighting in Afghanistan, and “local police” programmes sponsored by NATO have exacerbated the problem by arming militias, according to a new report from Refugees International. Most of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) fled “international and Afghan military forces’ operations against the Taliban,” the report found. Full news...
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June 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AzadiRadio.com (Translated by RAWA): It has been reported from Takhar province that two small girls and a woman had been raped by armed men and some commanders in the past 15 days. Family members of the victims say the rapists were local armed men and commanders and the government has not arrested them. Full news...
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June 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: Afghanistan has levelled fresh accusations against Pakistani forces for shelling its border areas, despite denials from Pakistani officials. Ratcheting up tensions between the two neighbours, a senior Afghan border security official said that dozens of mortars landed on Sunday in the eastern Kunar province, injuring and killing several. Full news...
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June 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Unidentified gunmen shot and killed a teacher in the Khas Uruzgan district of central Uruzgan province, an official said on Sunday. Abdul Qayum, a teacher at the Shah Zaman School, was gunned down by unknown assailants on his way home from school Saturday afternoon, Provincial Deputy Education Director Eid Mohammad Khan Rashidi told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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June 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: A deadly car bomb has hit a hospital in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province. There is confusion about the number of casualties, with officials saying between 20 and 60 people have died. The hospital building was destroyed and people buried under rubble. Casualties included women, children and elderly. Full news...
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June 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: International forces killed two civilians during an operation in the eastern province of Laghman, an official said on Wednesday. Soldiers arrived by helicopter in Wat Jabarkhel village of Alingar district around 12 am and raided the house of a farmer in the village, Alingar District Chief Syed Mohammad Sharif, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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June 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than 80,000 people in the Afghanistan’s western provinces are vulnerable to landmines, a demining coordination centre announced on Wednesday. The Mine Action Coordination Centre for Afghanistan (MACA) said Wednesday that the residents of 140 villages in the provinces of Farah, Herat, Ghor and Badghis were still at risk, despite a recent reduction in mine-related casualties. Full news...
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