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May 17, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: "My father and mother had gone to an invitation; police of Iran came to our house and deported us through the way of Nimrooz." These are the sad words of Noorbashee, 9, that according to her claim she has been expelled from Iran along with her 3 years old sister, now they are living with difficult situation in a camp in the frontier region of Nimrooz Province that doesn't any thing except for burning desert and sand storms. Full news...
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May 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Zee News: Air strikes called in by US special forces’ soldiers fighting with insurgents in southern Afghanistan killed at least 21 civilians, officials said today. One coalition soldier was also killed. Full news...
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April 29, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: If there's one thing Abdul Rasul Sayyaf knows, it's how to guard an exposed flank.As one of many warlords battling for control of Kabul in the early 1990s, Sayyaf ordered his fighters to protect their positions and press for advantage — which they did by shelling civilian neighborhoods and slaughtering members of Afghanistan's oppressed ethnic Hazara minority, human rights groups say. Full news...
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April 25, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
OhmyNews: In an apparent move to appease former strongmen and Jihadi commanders, the Afghan government has decided to award them special medals on April 28, the day when mujahideen or holy warriors overthrew the Russian-backed regime in Afghanistan in 1992. Full news...
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April 21, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan's Taliban movement has used a 12-year-old boy to execute a man accused of helping U.S. forces hunt down and kill one of its top commanders in December, Al Arabiya television reported on Saturday. Full news...
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April 16, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A man allegedly slaughtered his 14-year-old wife in Mohammad Agha district of the central Logar province last night, police said. Full news...
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April 15, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: US marines violated international humanitarian law by using excessive violence in reaction to a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan, a report says. Full news...
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April 13, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Sunday Times: The bodies of nearly 400 Afghan civilians killed during the communist regime that ended in 1992 have been found in a mass grave in northeastern Afghanistan, officials said. Full news...
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April 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Roadside bombs in southern Afghanistan on Sunday left seven NATO soldiers dead, the alliance said, as its forces continued an anti-Taliban offensive in the world's most fertile opium-producing region. It appeared to be the biggest combat loss for foreign troops in Afghanistan since 2005. Full news...
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April 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A mass grave with over 50 bodies was unearthed in the northern province of Badakhshan, officials said on Saturday. Full news...
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April 3, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A 20-year-old woman was burnt by her in-laws over family dispute in the eastern province of Kunar. Full news...
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April 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Hindu: The Taliban on Sunday executed three men accused of spying for NATO and Government forces in southern Afghanistan, a local militant commander and villager said. Full news...
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March 12, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TheTyee.ca: A ripple of laughter passes through a crowd of about 1,500 packed into a Kabul wedding hall last Friday afternoon. Onstage, warlords sit on plastic chairs talking to an American in a slick dark suit and shades. "I have to go to a meeting now," the American says abruptly as the warlords rise from their seats in protest. "Don't worry, we'll support you." Full news...
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March 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times' blog The Lede: Swirling amid the fallout from the deaths of a number of civilians on a crowded Afghan highway yesterday is what appears to have been an attempt by some American soldiers at the scene to prevent any images of the carnage from getting out to the wider world. Full news...
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March 4, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: U.S. Marines fleeing a militant ambush Sunday opened fire on civilian cars and pedestrians on a busy highway in eastern Afghanistan, wounded Afghans said. Up to 16 people were killed and 34 wounded in the violence, officials said. Full news...
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February 27, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP via MSNBC: The disarmament of Afghanistan's illegal private militias has ground to a halt and the price of weapons in the country's relatively quiet north is skyrocketing — a sign of the embattled central government's failure to assert its control, Afghan and Western officials say. Full news...
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February 26, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Age: Old men, some with tears streaming down their faces, were guided to their places. In silence they sat cross-legged while the haunting falsetto chants issuing from a PA system reverberated off the rubble that once was their homes, shops and offices in the foothills of Kabul's south-side. Full news...
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February 20, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Forgive and forget may be a noble aspiration, but it is not playing well in Afghanistan today. A wide spectrum of public opinion, both at home and abroad, has weighed in against a parliamentary resolution passed on January 31, which would grant blanket immunity for war crimes. Full news...
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February 20, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Suspected pro-Taliban militants beheaded and cut off the hands and feet of a man in a Pakistani border area, accusing him of spying for US forces in Afghanistan, officials said. Full news...
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February 20, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan: The upper house of Afghanistan's parliament -- the Meshrano Jirga -- approved a controversial bill today that rules out legal proceedings for war crimes committed by Afghans during the last 25 years, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reported. Full news...
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February 19, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: A local journalist has been killed by unknown armed men in Afghanistan's northwest Faryab province, said a local official Monday. Full news...
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February 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwok Afghan News: A number of Hindus in the Kundoz province lacking shelter in the meantime claim that some of their residents have been occupied by powerful people. Full news...
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February 8, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Pajhwak Afghan News: People of Parwan expressed their concern about the increased rates of crimes and defined the main factor as the presence of irresponsible armed groups. Full news...
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February 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Middle East Times: It may be conventional wisdom that there is no such thing as bad publicity, but for Afghan actor Hanif Hangam, the furor surrounding the film Kabul Express has been very unfortunate indeed. He has been forced to flee his homeland because of lines uttered by his character in a new Indian-American-Afghan film. Full news...
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February 7, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War & Peace Reporting: Accusations of brutality are nothing new for General Abdul Rashid Dostum, who commanded an Uzbek militia faction throughout years of civil war in Afghanistan. The international watchdog group Human Rights Watch has repeatedly alleged that he is a war criminal. Full news...
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February 6, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AP: The Philippines and Afghanistan were the most dangerous places for journalists in Asia in 2006, while Thai media suffered under a new military government and dozens of reporters remained behind bars in China, a U.S. media rights group said Tuesday in its annual report. Full news...
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February 5, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: The proposed legislation has been criticised by the country's human rights watchdog and Malalai Joya, one of the few MPs who did not approve the bill, describing it as being tantamount to "forgiving national traitors". Full news...
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February 2, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
DPA via TeluguPortal.Net: The United Nations office in Afghanistan has voiced strong opposition to the Afghan parliament's approval of a bill granting immunity to war-criminals and exempting them from judicial proceedings. Full news...
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February 1, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaleej Times: Afghanistan's parliament has granted immunity to all Afghans involved in the country's 25 years of conflict, lawmakers said on Thursday, despite calls by human rights groups for war crimes trials. Full news...
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January 9, 2007 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for War and Peace Reporting: "The girl who was exchanged for a dog" has become a sensation around the world, sparking outrage in human rights circles. But the canine connection is a minor part of the story, a curiosity that served as a hook to bring the case to public attention. Full news...
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