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  • June 28, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Police official says eight Afghan civilians killed in NATO raid
    VOA: NATO says a joint Afghan-international force killed a Taliban commander and several armed individuals in southern Afghanistan, but local villagers say the dead are all civilians. In eastern Afghanistan, officials say eight civilians, including women and children, were killed in a roadside bombing in Ghazni province on Monday.      Full news...

  • June 28, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Blackwater deal in Afghanistan questioned by Congress
    The Guardian: The Obama administration has awarded $220m (£146m) in new contracts to the military contractor formerly known as Blackwater to provide security in Afghanistan. This is despite accusations against the company of murder and indiscriminate killings of civilians in Iraq and investigations into alleged corruption and sanctions busting. The contracts have drawn stinging criticism in Congress and assertions that because of Blackwater's reputation for indifference to innocent lives it will jeopardise the mission in Afghanistan.      Full news...

  • June 26, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Bodies found beheaded in Afghanistan; 4 troops die
    The Associated Press: Four American troops were reported killed and the bodies of 11 Afghan men, some beheaded, were found in rising violence across Afghanistan. Mohammad Khan, deputy police chief in Uruzgan province, said a villager in the Bagh Char area of Khas Uruzgan district spotted the bodies Friday in a field and called police. "They were killed because the Taliban said they were spying for the government, working for the government," he said.      Full news...

  • June 18, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Update: Wikileaks “confirms” it has video of US massacre in Afghanistan
    Raw Story: The whistleblower website that posted video of a US Army helicopter firing on unarmed civilians and killing two Reuters employees is ready to do it again, its founder says. (A screenshot of the clip appears at right; video available at this link.) Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange says he has obtained video of a US “massacre” that took place in Afghanistan in 2009.      Full news...

  • June 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan schoolgirls hospitalized for possible poisoning
    CNN: About 60 schoolgirls in Afghanistan's Balkh province appear to have been poisoned and required hospitalization, the Ministry of Health said Sunday. The victims ranged in age from 9 to 14. Most suffered minor reactions, ministry spokesman Sakhi Kargan told CNN. It's at least the third suspected poisoning of girls attending schools in Afghanistan this week.      Full news...

  • June 12, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Scores of schoolgirls poisoned in Ghazni
    PAN: The number of schoolgirls fallen ill after a suspected poisonous gas attack on their school in the volatile southern province of Ghazni has reached 60, medics said on Saturday. The teenage girls of the Jehan Malika High School in Ghazni City, the provincial capital, were hospitalised after smelling the poisonous gas, said the director of Ghazni Civil Hospital, Dr. Ismail Ibrahimi.      Full news...

  • June 11, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    14 killed in Afghanistan attacks
    AFP: Nine civilians, including four women and three children, died when a bomb ripped through a minibus travelling along the main road leading to the capital of Kandahar province. Eight other civilians were wounded in the attack, which took place in the Maywand area, provincial government spokesman Zalmai Ayobi said.      Full news...

  • June 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Abuse drives some Afghan women to suicide
    IWPR: Only someone living in Afghanistan would consider Iran a bastion of freedom and independence for women. But authorities here say such a perception may be what's behind a soaring number of suicides in this western province. Once exposed to Iran's relatively more sophisticated society, women who return to Afghanistan are unable to survive in this restrictive society.      Full news...

  • June 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    US Military Campaigns In Iraq And Afghanistan Cost More Than USD1 Trillion: Report
    RTT News: A report by a non-profit organization which tracks American military spending says the total cost of the US military intervention in Iraq and Afghanistan has crossed $1 trillion. According to a report released Thursday by “National Priorities Project,” the ongoing military operations in the two war-ravaged nations are the most expensive ever carried out by American forces since the end of the Second World War.      Full news...

  • June 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Taliban execute seven-year-old Afghan boy accused of spying
    The Times of India: Suspected Taliban militants executed a seven-year-old boy in southern Afghanistan after accusing him of spying for the government, a provincial official said Wednesday. The child was captured by the militants in Sangin district of southern province of Helmand Tuesday, Daoud Ahmadi, a spokesman for the provincial governor, said.      Full news...

  • June 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Rapists of a Child are Still Free After a Year
    PAN (Translated by RAWA): The sons of a female member of the Provincial council of Helmand, who raped a child last year, are still free from the hold of the law despite repeated demands and the orders of the authorities. Not everyone has the ability to watch the extremely shocking video clip of this rape, which has reached Kabul as well.      Full news...

  • June 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Explosion kills at least 39, wounds 73 at Afghan wedding
    AFP: At least 39 people were killed and 73 wounded by a massive explosion at a wedding in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar on Wednesday, a senior official said. Most of the victims were male as the explosion occurred in an area of the wedding celebrations reserved for men. An AFP reporter at the hospital counted 10 children among the wounded.      Full news...

  • June 5, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghan lawmaker calls for execution of Christian converts from Islam
    AFP: The Afghan government has suspended two Christian aid groups after a TV show reported they were proselytising, which is illegal in the devoutly Islamic country. Converting from Islam to another religion is punishable by death under Afghan law. The Afghan constitution is based on traditional sharia law, which strictly bans religious conversion. In parliament, Abdul Sattar Khawasi, a deputy of the lower house, called for Muslim converts to Christianity to be executed.      Full news...

  • June 3, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Iran executes seven Afghan immigrants
    PAN: Iranian authorities executed seven Afghan refugees two days ago, their relatives in western Herat province claimed on Wednesday. The families asked the provincial government to help return the bodies of their relatives to their country of origin. Shir Gul, 40, said Iranian officials in a jail known as Taibad called him and said his nephew was hanged on charges of drug-trafficking.      Full news...

  • May 30, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Child Brides Escape Marriage, but Not Lashes
    The New York Times: The two Afghan girls had every reason to expect the law would be on their side when a policeman at a checkpoint stopped the bus they were in. Disguised in boys’ clothes, the girls, ages 13 and 14, had been fleeing for two days along rutted roads and over mountain passes to escape their illegal, forced marriages to much older men, and now they had made it to relatively liberal Herat Province.      Full news...

  • May 27, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Amnesty International Report 2010 Draws Bleak Picture of Human Rights in Afghanistan
    Amnesty International: Afghan people continued to suffer widespread human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law more than seven years after the USA and its allies ousted the Taliban. Access to health care, education and humanitarian aid deteriorated, particularly in the south and south-east of the country, due to escalating armed conflict between Afghan and international forces and the Taliban and other armed groups. Conflict-related violations increased in northern and western Afghanistan, areas previously considered relatively safe.      Full news...

  • May 17, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Civilian Casualties Raise Afghan Ire at U.S.
    TIME: Local witnesses interviewed by TIME say the nighttime raid by U.S. forces killed eight residents of this sun-baked farming village in eastern Afghanistan. The U.S. military insists that the operation in Koshkaky targeted insurgents active in the area, including a Taliban sub-commander who was killed. But ordinary Afghans are more inclined to believe the worst. As word of the incident spread Friday morning, street protests erupted...      Full news...


  • May 14, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Victims of Afghan wars demand justice before peace
    AFP: As President Hamid Karzai prepares to host a peace conference later this month to discuss how to tackle the brutal Taliban insurgency, victims of the violence blighting Afghanistan complain their voice is not being heard. “I want peace in my country, but peace will only be possible if those who have brought death to our country are tried,” said Attayii, one of dozens of people who gathered at a mass grave on the outskirts of Kabul this week.      Full news...

  • May 14, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghans protest against NATO, say 12 civilians killed
    AFP: ‌Hundreds of angry protesters staged a protest Friday in eastern Afghanistan, accusing NATO forces of killing a dozen civilians during an overnight raid. Around 300 protesters in the Surkh Rod district of Nangahar province chanted “Death to Shairzai (the provincial governor), (Afghan President Hamid) Karzai and the Americans” as they threw stones at the district administration offices.      Full news...

  • May 13, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghans protest against “refugee executions” in Iran
    BBC News: Thousands of Afghans have protested in the eastern city of Jalalabad against the alleged executions of a number of Afghan refugees in Iran. Demonstrators rallied in front of the Iranian consulate, shouting slogans and throwing eggs. This is the fifth and largest anti-Iran protest in Afghanistan in a fortnight.      Full news...

  • May 11, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Red Cross confirms “second jail” at Bagram, Afghanistan
    BBC News: The US airbase at Bagram in Afghanistan contains a facility for detainees that is distinct from its main prison, the Red Cross has confirmed to the BBC. Nine former prisoners have told the BBC that they were held in a separate building, and subjected to abuse. The US military says the main prison, now called the Detention Facility in Parwan, is the only detention facility on the base.      Full news...

  • May 10, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    After nearly a decade of war, PTSD is afflicting the U.S. military
    CAIVP: While the Afghanistan and Iraq wars have cost the United States over $1 trillion, 5,000 deaths, and 30,000 maimings, there is yet another painful cost that is rarely discussed by the American public. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is plaguing both active and retired members of the Armed Forces. Multiple, repeated deployments to intense war theaters are taking a serious psychological toll on soldiers (and their families), and the statistical trend continues to worsen.      Full news...

  • May 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Canadians believe Afghan detainees tortured -- and disapprove: poll
    Canwest News Service: A solid majority of Canadians believe prisoners detained by Canadian soldiers have been tortured after being transferred to Afghan authorities, a new Ipsos Reid poll suggests. A fat majority also say that if torture occurred, it was not only wrong but that they believe there was widespread knowledge of it within the Canadian government -- and that senior officials should lose their jobs, if that was the case.      Full news...

  • May 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Afghanistan Grapples with “Honor Rape”
    The Media Line: The Muslim world is full of violent, graphic and alarming stories of “honor killings”, in which young woman are killed by male family members for dishonoring the family. “Honor rape”, in which the gang rape of a woman is used as a tool of social punishment, is spoken of less. Almost unheard of is an “honor killing” or “honor rape” of a man.      Full news...

  • May 9, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Eight civilians killed in Afghanistan
    DPA: Seven civilians were killed in two explosions in central and northern Afghanistan, while one other was shot by a private security guard near the capital, officials said Saturday. Two women, two children and two men were killed in Charkh district of the central province of Logar after their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb, a spokesman for Logar's governor said.      Full news...

  • May 8, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Shootings of Afghans on Rise at Checkpoints
    The New York Times: Shootings of Afghan civilians by American and NATO convoys and at military checkpoints have spiked sharply this year, becoming the leading cause of combined civilian deaths and injuries at the hands of Western forces, American officials say. The steep rise in these convoy and checkpoint attacks — which the military calls “escalation of force incidents” — has prompted military commanders to issue new troop guidelines      Full news...

  • May 6, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    What I Learned in Afghanistan – About the United States
    LewRockwell.com: I was surprised on my recent trip to Afghanistan that I learned so much…about the United States. I was in Afghanistan for two weeks in March of this year, meeting with a large number of Afghans working in humanitarian endeavors – the principal of a girls’ school, the director of a school for street children, the Afghan Human Rights Commission, a group working on environmental issues. The one thing that all of these groups that we met with had in common was, they were penniless.      Full news...

  • May 6, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    The hypocrisy of child abuse in many Muslim countries
    The Guardian: Some Muslims are fond of condemning western morality – alcoholism, nudity, premarital sex and homosexuality often being cited as examples. But Muslims do not have a monopoly on morality. In the west, child marriages and sex with children are illegal. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for many Muslim countries. I recently saw the documentary on the Dancing Boys of Afghanistan.      Full news...

  • May 6, 2010 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
    Losing Afghan hearts and minds
    Asia Times Online: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is losing hearts and minds in Afghanistan, according to a report by the International Council on Security and Development (ICOS) that gives a clear signal of the dangers of the military operation against Kandahar planned for this summer. Contrary to its stated objectives of protecting the population from insurgents, NATO is actually raising the likelihood that poor Afghans will join the Taliban      Full news...



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