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May 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mail Online: Fourteen women and children have been killed after Nato warplanes bombed their homes in south-west Afghanistan. Six others were wounded in the attack, according to local reports, after the airstrike in Nawzad district, in the country’s volatile Helmand province. Two women, five girls and seven boys were among the dead, said Dawood Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial government. Full news...
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May 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: As many as 112 people were killed in an airstrike by NATO-led troops in the remote eastern province of Nuristan, a senior official said on Saturday. Twenty-two policemen, 20, civilians and 70 Taliban fighters were among the dead, Governor Jamaluddin Badr told Pajhwok Afghan News, quoting a probe into the incidents. Full news...
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May 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: In average, 10 incidents of armed conflicts and 39 consequent deaths were reported in three main South Asian states - Afghanistan, India and Pakistan - on every day of last month. Every fourth victim of violence was a civilian. Afghanistan continued to be worst hit state by violence in the region as about half of the incidents as well as resultant deaths were reported in the country. Full news...
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May 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: NATO-led troops shot dead three civilians in central Maidan Wardak province, an Afghan official said on Thursday. The deaths took place in Lala Khel area of the province, Shahidullah Shahid, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Militants cut off the nose and ears of an Afghan civil servant, then shot him dead near the capital apparently because he worked for the government, police said Wednesday. Omid, a 30-year-old who like many Afghans went by only one name, was kidnapped in Puli Alam, the capital of Logar province, 60 kilometres (40 miles) south of Kabul, on Tuesday. Full news...
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May 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Taliban gunmen have killed the headteacher of a girls’ school near the Afghan capital after he ignored warnings to stop teaching girls, government officials have said. Khan Mohammad, the head of the Porak girls’ school in Logar province, was shot dead near his home on Tuesday, said Deen Mohammad Darwish, a spokesman for the Logar governor. Full news...
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May 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: In violation of an agreement with Kabul, Iran continues to execute the Afghan refugees on death row in the neighbouring country, an official alleged on Sunday. Two more Afghans were executed in Sistan city of Baluchistan province, which borders Afghanistan, on May 7, the official told Pajhwok Afghan News on condition of anonymity. Full news...
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May 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Spiegel Online: Germany’s military, the Bundeswehr, has released new and explosive details about a violent altercation between demonstrators and German soldiers in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday that left 12 dead and dozens wounded, including two German soldiers. In a statement posted on its website Friday morning, the military contradicted its earlier claims and admitted that German soldier had deliberately fired upon the demonstrators. Full news...
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May 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of residents of Charkh district in central Logar province on Friday protested against NATO-led forces for arresting two sons of a prayer leader. Foreign troops on Thursday night detained the two sons of Maulvi Sahibzada, prayer leader of the district’s main mosque, in the Bazar area during an operation. Full news...
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May 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Foreign troops handed over to family the body of a 25-year-old man with his hand cut off six days after he was arrested on the charge of “links” with Taliban militants in central Logar province, officials said on Friday. Amir Mohammad, the victim, had been arrested by foreign troops during an operation six days ago in Sheikhi village of Charkh district for his alleged ties with the Taliban. Full news...
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May 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CounterPunch: Malalai Joya is an Afghan activist, author, and former politician. She served as an elected member of the 2003 Loya Jirga and was a parliamentary member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan, until she was expelled for denouncing other members as warlords and war criminals. She has been a vocal critic of both the US/NATO occupation and the Karzai government, as well as the Taliban and Islamic fundamentalists. Full news...
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May 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: At least 35 construction workers have been shot dead and 20 injured by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, an official says. Eight insurgents were also killed as guards returned fire during Wednesday night’s ambush, a Paktia provincial spokesman told the BBC. The attack took place in a mountainous district on the highway linking Paktia and Khost provinces. Full news...
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May 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Five people were injured on a second day of a protest demonstration against foreign troops for what they said killing four civilians in an airstrike in northern Takhar province, officials said on Thursday. On Wednesday, more than a dozen people were killed and 85 others wounded when police opened fire at hundreds of protestors in Taloqan, the provincial capital, after a NATO airsrike killed four civilians... Full news...
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May 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The execution of Bibi Sanubar prompted revulsion inside Afghanistan and abroad after she was imprisoned, given 200 lashes before a crowd and then shot three times in the head. Her death in an insurgent-controlled district of the north-west fed fears of a possible return to Taliban-era capital punishment if concessions were made in any peace settlement with the militants. Full news...
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May 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: At least 12 people have been killed in northern Afghanistan during a protest against a Nato-led raid, hospital sources have told the BBC. The clashes with security forces in the city of Taloqan left 80 others injured. Some 2,000 demonstrators, some of them armed, took part. They looted shops and tried to attack a German army base. Four people, two of them women, were killed in the Nato-led raid. Full news...
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May 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Foreign troops killed an Afghan child and wounded four others when responding to insurgent fire in volatile eastern Kunar province, the provincial Governor said on Monday, the third accidental killing of young civilians in less than a week. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it had killed "four armed individuals"... Full news...
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May 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: Police seized a nine-year-old and three others aged between 12 and 14 as they tried to cross into eastern Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Afghan intelligence agency said the boy is believed to be the youngest suicide bomber ever intercepted, though children as young as five have been used to plant bombs in Helmand. Full news...
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May 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: Hundreds of Afghans demonstrated Saturday against the accidental killing of a 15-year old boy by U.S. forces in a volatile eastern province, leading to the death of at least one protester. The boy’s death occurred late Friday evening in Nangarhar province after he was shot while attempting to pull a gun on Afghan and U.S. troops participating in a mounted patrol. Full news...
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May 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
San Diego Union Tribune: What do human rights, women’s rights, civil rights, justice, freedom of religion and freedom of speech have in common? They are all nonexistent in Afghanistan. In my six months here, I’ve witnessed the aftermath of the Taliban rule, which forced Islam on people, murdered women for going to school or not wearing a burqa, and stoned people for speaking their mind. Full news...
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May 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least 13 people, including children and women, were injured when a rocket shell landed near a house where a wedding party was taking place in the eastern province of Kunar on Friday, police said. The incident took place in the Watapur district early Friday when guests were gathered at a house to attend a wedding ceremony, police chief, Gen. Khalilullah Ziayee, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A 12-year old girl and a police officer, a relative of the girl, were killed by foreign troops during a raid on a house in eastern Nangarhar province, residents said on Thursday. The troops blew up the house’s gate and entered at 1am last night in Myagan Banda village of Surkh Rod district, Naik Mohammad, father of the slain girl, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): Armed men raped a 12-year old girl in a village in Takhar province in northeastern Afghanistan. Her family members say six of these men were wearing police uniforms. The local Women’s Affairs office in Takhar confirmed the incident and the police of the province say they are searching for the criminals. Full news...
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May 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The charity has warned that unless the international community acts immediately the country will not be secure enough to hand over to Afghan forces in 2014. The report, titled No Time to Lose, claims Nato is not doing enough to prevent abuses by Afghan police and “time is running out” for change. Full news...
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May 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Headless bodies of four students were on Monday found in a village in southeastern Khost province, a public representative said. The decapitated young boys belonged to two families living in Zoor village of Musakhel district. Their bodies were found Monday morning near the village, Shafiq Mujahid, a provincial council member, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Intense fighting has taken place in Afghanistan’s second city of Kandahar amid co-ordinated militant attacks, including at least six suicide bombs. The Taliban said it was behind the triple assault on the provincial governor’s office, the Afghan spy agency and a police station. At least two people were killed and 23 injured in the fighting, which spread panic on the streets. Full news...
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May 5, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
ABC News: Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission says a man shot during a battle with Australian Special Forces soldiers was a civilian, not an insurgent. An infant also died from gunshot wounds he received in the firefight. The relatives of the victims say that Australian troops took innocent lives, but the Defence Force says the case is still being investigated. Full news...
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May 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Five children, playing cricket, were injured when a mortar shell landed near them in eastern Kunar province on Sunday, residents said. The incident took place in the Manogi district in the evening, resident Yar Pacha told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said it was not known from which where direction and who fired the shell. Full news...
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May 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The dead body of a 40-year-old pregnant woman was found in northern Samangan province on Sunday morning, a police official said. The corpse was recovered in the Shahid Andkhoi Aibak neighbourhood, the acting crime branch, Capt. Asadullah, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Asadullah said the woman’s body had been transferred to the Aibak Civil Hospital. Her address is yet to be ascertained. Full news...
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April 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Weasel Zippers: Insurgents raided the home of a soldier from the Afghan National Army, beat and tied up two male relatives and murdered four female relatives in Barabat-Jaba village, Kunar province, April 25. Reports from the area state that the women, a wife, mother, sister and 4-year-old daughter of the ANA soldier, were shot to death in their home by the insurgents... Full news...
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April 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
McClatchy Newspapers: Naqibullah was about 14 years old when U.S. troops detained him in December 2002 at a suspected militant’s compound in eastern Afghanistan. The weapon he held in his hands hadn’t been fired, the troops concluded, and he appeared to have been left behind with a group of cooks and errand boys when a local warlord, tipped to the raid, had fled. Full news...
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