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March 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: An Afghan warlord backed by US special forces faces persistent allegations that he launched a two-year spate of violence involving burglary, rape and murder of civilians, desecration of mosques and mutilation of corpses. Yet, despite repeated warnings about the atrocities Commander Azizullah is alleged to have committed, he has remained on the payroll of the US military... Full news...
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March 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Abdul Majid, 12, sits crying quietly in a corner of the Ansar refugee camp in Herat province. He is alone in Afghanistan; his parents and seven siblings are all back in the Iran. He said he was out with some friends in a park near his home in Semnan province one evening when he was detained. Weeping bitterly, Abdul Majid said he did not know anyone in Afghanistan. Full news...
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March 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Residents of the Sawakai district in eastern Kunar province on Thursday declared a three-day mourning period for victims of a coalition airstrike. They also announced suspension of work in public and private sectors for the same period in protest against the air raid that killed two teenage boys watering their farmland two days ago, Shah Jehan, a resident said. Full news...
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March 16, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalPost: It was two o’clock in the morning on Feb. 15. Mullah Abdul Khaliq, who taught at a local school here in Nawa district, was asleep with his family when the helicopters began circling overhead. “We could not leave our houses,” said Abdullah, a neighbor of Mullah Khaliq’s. Full news...
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March 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Japan Times: Self-immolation committed by a large number of Afghan women is one of the most tragic responses to gender violence in that country. Aside from the horror of dying, surviving this act makes victims unfit for a normal life. They are often permanently maimed, disfigured and shunned by their communities. Full news...
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March 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A suicide attack on an army recruitment centre in northern Afghanistan has killed 37 people. It was the third major assault in the area in less than a month, the deputy governor said. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of the militant Islamist group. Dozens more were wounded, officials said. Full news...
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March 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A vehicle of foreign troops traveling in a convoy crushed to death a child in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Sunday. The incident took place in the Chawni area of Kandahar City, the provincial capital, on Saturday afternoon, Zalmay Ayubi, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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March 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An investigation has been launched to determine whether the victims were civilians or militants, the governor’s spokesman, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The men, who were killed in the overnight operation in Gul Bagh area on the outskirts of Jalalabad, were brothers, said a tribal elder, Ghulam Nabi. Full news...
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March 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Presse Agentur: Taliban militants cut off the ears of four Afghans working for a government-funded development project in the southern province of Kandahar, the provincial government said Thursday. The militants on Wednesday detained eight people, including four children, who all work for the development project in the Zhari district, a statement issued by the governor’s office said. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: One woman died and another was injured when soldiers from the NATO-led coalition opened fire in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said. The International Security Assistance Force said it was investigating the incident, but that a preliminary report showed the two women were over a kilometer away from where the firing took place. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: A sharp jump in assassinations and a rise in suicide and roadside bombings in Afghanistan last year led to an increase in civilian casualties, the United Nations said Wednesday. The United Nations documented 2,777 civilian deaths in 2010, which it said was a 15 percent rise over the number killed in fighting the previous year. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Insurgents shot dead a man and his son on the charge of spying for the government in Khashrod district of southwestern Nimroz province, officials said on Thursday. The two were gunned down while returning home from a mosque, the provincial police chief, Abdul Jabbar Purdali, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The father, 50, and his son, 18, had no links to the government, he said. Full news...
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March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN (Translated by RAWA): A number of people in Kunduz claim that local militias take their money and mobile phones forcefully and in some cases even beat them up. They say that although this province has been cleared of armed anti-government forces, the people will distance themselves from the government if things continued this way, thus paving the way for the insurgents to return. The people demanded the government to dissolve this illegal force. Full news...
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March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Taliban fighters on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack on a female police official in the western province of Herat. Gunmen on motorcycles shot and wounded 2nd Lt. Maryam, head of a police recruitment centre, after she left her home in Paen Aab and went out of the city. Full news...
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March 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TheWip: The great number of Afghan women who commit self-immolation (burning oneself to death) is one of the most tragic responses to gender violence in that country. Aside from the horror of dying, surviving this act makes its victims unfit for a normal life. They are often permanently maimed, disfigured, and shunned by their communities. Full news...
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March 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: While we have been fixated on successive Arab breakthroughs and victories against tyranny and extremism, Washington is failing miserably but discreetly in Afghanistan. The American media’s one-obsession-at-a-time coverage of global affairs might have put the spotlight on President Obama’s slow and poor reaction to the breathtaking developments starting in Tunisia and Egypt. Full news...
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March 6, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Two of Nasim’s sons went into the hills to collect firewood last week to warm the family’s humble home against the biting Afghan winter chill. They never returned, killed along with seven other children in a NATO air strike. “The Americans are wild,” said the boys’ father, who uses only one name and whose sons were aged 11 and 12, crying as he spoke. “They don't value humanity and don’t care about our children. Full news...
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March 4, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Fresh from the reported killing of more than 60 civilians, U.S. forces in Kunar Province, Afghanistan, killed nine boys gathering firewood on a mountainside. General Petraeus says he’s sorry. Too little, too late, general. Nine boys now lie among thousands of others who had a right to life independent of U.S. goals in Afghanistan, and “sorry” doesn’t cut it, especially from the general who's tripling the air war over Afghanistan. Full news...
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March 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Welle (Translated by RAWA): Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has demanded the judicial bodies of Afghanistan to investigate the case of a 17-year old girl who was raped by a local influential. The girl claimed that she was raped by the head of the Provincial Council of Kunar. Full news...
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March 3, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Hundreds of Afghan protesters poured into the streets of the northeastern provincial capital Assad-Abad on March 2 over the death of nine civilians killed in a NATO air strike, RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan reports. NATO officially apologized on March 2 for what it called an “accident.” It said in a statement that "[the NATO-led] International Security Assistance Force apologizes... Full news...
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March 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The chief of police in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday confirmed that nine children had been killed in a NATO-led airstrike the previous day. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said it would investigate the claims. Residents of Manogi district on Tuesday said the airstrike killed as many as 10 children as they collected firewood in Nangalam valley. Full news...
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March 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Armed conflict is keeping 28 million children around the world out of schools, where they are often targets of sexual abuse and violence, according to a report released Tuesday by UNESCO. The report titled “The Hidden Crisis: Armed Conflict and Education” said that 42 percent of children not enrolled in schools around the world live in poor countries wracked by conflict. Full news...
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March 2, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New Yorker: Ten boys went out to gather firewood in a valley in Afghanistan on Tuesday. Only one came home; his name is Hemad, and this is what he had to say, as quoted in the Times: ...he helicopters hovered over us, scanned us and we saw a green flash from the helicopters. Then they flew back high up, and in a second round they hovered over us and started shooting. They fired a rocket which landed on a tree. Full news...
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March 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Taliban insurgents killed four people for allegedly spying on behalf of the US in North Waziristan, a tribal region of Pakistan close to the Afghan border, an official said on Tuesday. The dead bodies were found on a roadside on Tuesday morning in Datakhel area on the outskirts of Miranshah town, an official in the town, Mohammad Imran, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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February 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: More than 200 Afghans were killed in attacks and military operations during the past two weeks, Afghan officials said Saturday, calling it the deadliest period for civilians since the war began. Two attacks on Saturday added to that toll and fueled fears that violence will climb as winter, typically a slow fighting season in Afghanistan, gives way to spring. Full news...
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February 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters/BBC: Afghan government investigators say about 65 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in a NATO operation last week. But NATO insists there was not a single civilian casualty during its offensive in Kunar province. No video or photographs have yet emerged, either of the operation or of any bodies. Full news...
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February 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: The growing use of “night raids” by NATO-led and Afghan forces to kill or capture insurgents is one of the most controversial strategies in the Afghan war. Here are some accounts by Afghan civilians of night raids they experienced, which left them injured or bereaved. Full news...
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February 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Presse Agentur: Fire from a NATO helicopter allegedly killed five civilians including two children in north-eastern Afghanistan Thursday after mistaking them for militants, a local official said. The pre-dawn strike happened as the civilians were climbing a mountain for bird-hunting in Ala Sai district of Kapisa province, Mullah Mohammad Omari, the district chief, said. Full news...
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February 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: The security situation in Afghanistan has worsened to its lowest point since the toppling of the Taliban a decade ago and attacks on aid workers are at unprecedented levels, a UN envoy said Wednesday. “From the humanitarian perspective, security is on everyone’s minds,” said Robert Watkins, the outgoing UN deputy special representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan. Full news...
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February 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Foreign forces detained three journalists who visited the site of a coalition airstrike that killed 64 people in the Ghaziabad district of eastern Kunar province, police said on Wednesday. However, the two Al Jazeera and one Afghan TV reporters were freed after more than 24 hours of detention and handed over to local officials on Tuesday night, provincial police chief, Khalilullah Ziayee, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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