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June 9, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Diplomat: On the evening of March 20, two teenagers entered the buffet area of the luxurious Serena Hotel in Kabul. The well-guarded establishment was a popular meeting place for politicians, diplomats, and journalists; a kind of refuge away from the danger constantly present in Kabul. Full news...
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June 7, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Foreign troops are pulling out of Afghanistan but the war they started will likely continue to extract a price. Evacuated bases and other theatres of military operations are littered with unexploded ordnance, and have claimed civilian lives. An investigation. Full news...
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June 4, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Wall Street Journal: Taliban forces led by Mohammed Fazl swept through this village on the Shomali plain north of Kabul in 1999 in a scorched-earth offensive that prompted some 300,000 people to flee for their lives. Fifteen years later, local residents here are responding with fear and dismay to the U.S. release of the notorious commander... Full news...
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June 2, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Daily Beast: In exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Berghdahl, the U.S. has released five senior Taliban commanders from the Guantanamo Bay prison. They are considered some of the worst of the worst. The five Guantanamo detainees released by the Obama administration in exchange for America’s last prisoner of war in Afghanistan, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, are bad guys. They are top Taliban commanders the group has tried to free for more than a decade. Full news...
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June 1, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Following the killing of a local by the alleged connivance of relatives of Wolesi Jirga and another senior official, hundreds of people on Saturday held protest in the Qaisar district of northwestern Faryab province, demanding arrest of the perpetrators. Mirwais was gunned down by unidentified men on Saturday evening in the district. Full news...
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May 31, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: A roadside bomb killed 14 civilians in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the latest violence in the country as US-led troops prepare to leave after 13 years of war. The victims were travelling in the Giro district of Ghazni province after a wedding ceremony when the bomb ripped through their vehicle, district governor Abdullah Khairkhwah told AFP. Full news...
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May 30, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Vice News: A warlord, an illiterate drug smuggler, and a CIA-funded killer walk into a war. That’s not the setup to a joke — it’s the punchline to America’s failed intervention in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama said yesterday that US forces would be all but out of the country by the end of 2016. Full news...
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May 25, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Even government offices have flouted the law on jobs for the disabled. An Independent Media Consortium (IMC) investigation. Article 22 of the Law on Rights and Privileges of Persons with Disabilities says 3 percent of jobs in all offices – whether private or government – have to go to the disabled. Full news...
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May 19, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three children were killed following a rocket attack in southern Helmand province, an official said on Monday. The incident took place in the Shawol area of Nad Ali district late on Sunday, the governor’s spokesman, Omar Zwak, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 13, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A journalist was beaten and others were threatened by police after they attempted to cover the scene of a rocket attack that left eight civilians injured in the capital of southern Ghazni province on Tuesday. Pajhwok reporter Saifullah Maftoon and other journalists were barred from entering the hospital where the injured civilians had been taken. Full news...
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May 12, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Militants carried out a deadly attack on a government building in eastern Afghanistan and fired rockets near Kabul’s main airport Monday as the Taliban began their annual spring offensive. An armed group stormed the provincial Justice Department in the city of Jalalabad on Monday morning, clashing with Afghan security forces, authorities said. Full news...
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May 10, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: The Ministry of Defence is investigating pictures showing a member of the British armed forces in Afghanistan posing with his thumb up beside the body of a dead Taliban fighter. An MoD spokesperson described the actions of the soldier as inappropriate. Full news...
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May 8, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: Recruited to help run Afghanistan’s security and intelligence operations in the aftermath of the US war against the Taliban, the country’s most feared security official dubbed “torturer in chief” now has settled in a pink two-story house in California. Full news...
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May 7, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A woman was beaten to death by her spouse in western Herat province and another was gunned down by unidentified assailants in northern Faryab province, officials said on Wednesday. The murder in Herat took place in Safarabad area of Karkh district on Wednesday, the governor’s spokesman, Ihsanullah Hayat, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 28, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WordPress.com: Yunus Qanuni, following an election in Afghanistan that has been marked with numerous incidents and reports of direct election fraud. Such wide spread election fraud that it questions, the very legitimacy and nature of Afghanistan’s political process and the stability of it’s very government. In the aftermath of the election, Yunus Qanuni, was appointed as Vice President of Afghanistan. Full news...
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April 27, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WordPress.com: In essence to understand the situation of Afghanistan which has been ravished by the Mujahedeen, warlordism and vast corruption. It is a necessity in order to hear from the people of Afghanistan who have been affected by this. That is, the unspoken voices that have suffered from the United States/NATO occupation, who have felt themselves in a place that no human being should be in of dire distress. Full news...
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April 24, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: Compared with the rest of the country, which is plagued by frequent militant attacks and bombings, Afghanistan’s northeastern Kapisa and Parwan provinces enjoy relative peace and stability. Taliban militants don’t enjoy a strong presence there. Despite this, some villagers in the two neighboring provinces say they won’t be casting their ballots in the April 5 elections because they fear reprisals from local warlords. Full news...
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April 23, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A large number of weeping women on Wednesday staged a protest rally in northern Faryab province, accusing a local commander of sexually abusing and murdering young girls and children during a bloody clash with civilians. Nearly 100 women, accompanied by children, from Pashtun Kot district arrived in Maimana, the provincial capital, and assembled in front of the governor’s house. Full news...
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April 20, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A young woman has been shot dead by unidentified gunmen after she eloped in northern Baghlan province, an official said Sunday. Amina 21 was eloped as she was unhappy with her husband. Unidentified gunmen forced her into the car and shot her dead in Kotal-i-Shahidan locality on the outskirts of Talau Barfak district last night, the district chief said. Full news...
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April 19, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Iran executed half a dozen Afghans on death row yesterday and is set to hang another seven on Saturday, an official claimed. The six executed Afghans belonged to northeastern Takhar province and they had gone to the neighbouring country in search of work, the governor’s spokesman, Sunatullah Taimori told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 15, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: Afghan officials said that a NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan killed a woman and two children on Tuesday, again raising the issue of civilian casualties at a time when both the presidential election and the future of the Western troop presence are unresolved. Full news...
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April 14, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Kabul’s infamous prison Pul-e-Charkhi claimed the lives of thousands of political prisoners who were brutally tortured and executed under the Khalq and Parcham regimes. Jamila’s 22-year-old husband was picked up by the secret police, and was never seen again. She says she searched everywhere in Kabul for him for two months. “He still has not returned.” Full news...
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April 11, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: As the U.S. military withdraws from Afghanistan, it is leaving behind a deadly legacy: about 800 square miles of land littered with undetonated grenades, rockets and mortar shells. The military has vacated scores of firing ranges pocked with the explosives. Full news...
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April 11, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Pakistani truck driver Umran Khan spent nine years in Afghanistan’s Bagram prison, where he says he suffered beatings, sleep deprivation and a sustained campaign of mental disintegration despite committing no crime. Accused with a friend of transporting bombs in 2005, he has maintained his innocence - and an official record shows his captors suspected the same. Full news...
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April 10, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A woman has been found stabbed to death multiple-times and her body’s parts, including lips, cut off allegedly by a brother-in-law in northwestern Jawzjan province, police said on Thursday. The victim, a 23-year-old mother of two children, was mercilessly killed on Wednesday night in Shiberghan, the provincial capital, police chief Col. Syed Zamanuddin Hussaini told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 8, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PBS NewsHour: A young Afghan woman named Soheila ran away with a man after her father forced her to marry a 70-year-old. She and her lover were caught after three years and both were jailed for adultery. Soheila tells her story in the documentary “To Kill a Sparrow,” produced by the Center for Investigative Reporting. The PBS NewsHour will air an excerpt on Friday. Full news...
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April 7, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A roadside bomb killed at least 15 people traveling in vehicles that had been diverted from a main road Monday after an earlier attack in southern Afghanistan, officials said. The blast came after a relatively calm weekend in which no major attacks were reported as Afghans voted for a new president and provincial councils. Full news...
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April 5, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A Pajhwok Afghan News video journalist was beaten and his camera broken by Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel guarding polling stations in the Lalpura district of eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday. Pajhwok reporter in the east, Mahbob Shah Mahbob, said he had travelled to the district along with cameraman Babrak Amirzada to cover the landmark elections. Full news...
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March 31, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: Having a presidential election in Afghanistan is sort of like trying to put Humpty Dumpty together again—that is, if every piece of the eggshell were trying to kill all the other pieces. Thirteen years after the US invasion in 2001, Afghanistan is no closer to being a unified country than it was back then, after a decade of war during the Soviet period, the civil war that followed and finally the conquest by the Taliban. Full news...
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March 29, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Violence against journalists has been growing. The last two years have been tough on the media fraternity. Two more names were added in March to the list of reporters killed by Taleban violence: Nils Horner, a radio journalist reporting for Radio Sweden, and Sardar Ahmad, reporter for AFP. Both were gunned down in Kabul. Full news...
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