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February 12, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Farid Ahmad was a child when his father, badly injured in a rocket attack, stopped working. “When I was born the country was in the control of Russians. Then the parties (mujahedin groups) got power and nobody could go out of the house. The war among the parties was going on every day. Unarmed civilians were being killed. Kabul city looked like a graveyard,” said Farid Ahmad. Full news...
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February 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Friday Magazine: High barricades and blast-proof walls are a common sight in Kabul, and it is impossible to travel through the Afghan capital without encountering a barrage of police and private security checkpoints. There is an overwhelming sense of unease every time you stop at each one, but these are just some of the precautions taken for security reasons... Full news...
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February 10, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Rights campaigners voiced outrage on Sunday over a 13-year-old Afghan boy jailed for having sex with two adult men, urging the Western-backed Kabul government to release him and punish his abusers. The boy, accused of having sex with two men in a public park in the western province of Herat, was sentenced to one year in juvenile detention, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in a statement. Full news...
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February 9, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Dozens of people coming all the way from southern Helmand province to this central capital on Saturday staged a protest demonstration, asking the government to resolve their problems regarding health, security and electricity. Participants of the rally gathered in front of parliament house and then started marching on road leading to the Ministry of Power and Energy. Full news...
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February 8, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An urban court ordered 80 lashes to a man for drinking alcohol in western Herat province, an official said on Friday. The ruling came after the man had confessed to drinking the banned beverage, said Abdul Rassoul Mansoor, the judge who ordered the lashes. He told reporters in Herat City, the provincial capital, that similar sentences handed down to seven other men since last March. Full news...
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February 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Afghanistan is one of the most mine contaminated countries in the world. It is believed that there are still about a million mines in the country, killing and maiming hundreds of people every year. According to media reports, five civilians, including four members of a family, were killed when a mine went off in Khaneshin District of Helmand province on 2 February 2013. Full news...
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February 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: The United States government should promptly carry out the recommendations of a United Nations committee of experts to improve protection of children abroad from armed conflict. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child released a report and recommendations to the US government on February 5, 2013. The committee raised a number of concerns regarding US practices during armed conflict... Full news...
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February 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Prensa Latina: U.S. soldiers killed five civilians, including two women and three children, during a raid carried out on Monday in the western Afghan province of Herat, the province’s authorities reported today. The U.S. special forces’ operation was aimed at clearing the Shindandm district of alleged rebels, noted chief of the locality Abdul Hamid Noor, who noted at least two rebels were injured as well as some soldiers. Full news...
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February 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Taliban are running a training camp, with fighters receiving practical guidance, in the Deshu district of southern Helmand province, the governor said on Tuesday. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, Mohammad Naeem said the Taliban had established a training centre in the Bahramcha area that borders Pakistan. Full news...
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February 4, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Wasel Khan relives the horror of the Hada massacre, one of the most brutal attacks on civilians in Afghan history. The village of Hada in Nangarhar province had waited all year for Jahanzeb’s wedding in December 1984. Winter weddings are a time of celebration in snow-bound parts of the country. Jahanzeb, a soldier in the Afghan army, had come home for the wedding. Full news...
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February 3, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: An Afghan government official says a roadside bomb has killed a family of five in the south of the country. The administrator for Miyanishin district in Helmand province, Shah Mahmood Shafa, says the family was driving through the district in a Toyota Corolla Saturday night when their car struck a bomb. He did not say if the explosion had targeted them, or how the bomb was detonated. Full news...
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February 1, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Afghanistan’s human rights situation remains poor and will likely deteriorate even further with the departure of Nato-led forces from the country next year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its annual global report on Thursday. Increasing international fatigue over the 11-year war has led to reduced pressure on the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai... Full news...
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January 31, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The stitches and bandages are gone, but scars streak across one side of the girl’s face, across her cheek and behind her ear: stark testimony to the brutal attack she barely survived three months ago. When the girl, Gul Meena, is with other people, even those whom she knows at the shelter where she now lives, she pulls a veil across the damaged side of her face, often touching it gingerly and sucking in her breath. Full news...
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January 28, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Efforts to clear Afghanistan of landmines have been painfully slow. At least 45 people lose their limbs every month to deadly anti-personnel mines, which have been banned by 161 countries. Afghanistan should have been free of landmines by the end of 2013. In December last year it was among four countries that requested extensions on their mine clearance deadlines. The country has been granted until 2023 to clear all mined areas. Full news...
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January 27, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Prensa Latina: Two bomb attacks in other southern provinces of Afghanistan killed 13 people, including 11 policemen, and wounded another 13, according to a report from official sources. In conflict-torn Kandahar province, an explosive device was activated while a patrol of agents was passing by and killed eight policemen and wounded six. Full news...
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January 25, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: When I joined the Marine Corps, I knew I would kill people. I was trained to do it in a number of ways, from pulling a trigger to ordering a bomb strike to beating someone to death with a rock. As I got closer to deploying to war in 2009, my lethal abilities were refined, but my ethical understanding of killing was not. I held two seemingly contradictory beliefs: Killing is always wrong, but in war, it is necessary. Full news...
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January 24, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Rabble.ca: The critics may love it, but Zero Dark Thirty has made U.S. senators John McCain, Carl Levin and Dianne Feinstein very angry. The trio of politicians says that, contrary to the movie’s allegedly true portrayal, torture was never used to gain information on the whereabouts of Osama Bin Laden. But let it not be forgotten that torture was used in the hunt for countless other terror suspects. Full news...
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January 23, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: An investigation is underway into the death of a 27-old-year woman found Wednesday morning hanged in her home in northern Jawzjan province, local officials said. The hanging took place last night in the woman Rahila’s home in the Shirik village of Jawzjan’s Aqcha district, the spokesman of 303 Pamir Police Zone in north Afghanistan, Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai, said. Full news...
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January 20, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: The United Nations says torture in Afghan prisons continues to be widespread despite its recommendations in a similar report in 2011. More than half of the 635 detainees interviewed by UN investigators said they had been ill-treated or tortured. The Afghan government says the claims are exaggerated, the BBC’s Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says. Full news...
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January 17, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Two girls are seeking justice for two separate rape cases in Afghanistan’s central and northern provinces, both accusing government personnel of raping them after they sought help from a previous rape. In northern Baghlan province’s Nahrin district, 13-year-old Zarbibi was allegedly raped by her cousin multiple times, and was subsequently raped by the police officer investigating her case. Full news...
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January 16, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA Dari (Translated by RAWA): Officials in a human rights office in Daikundi province say that a 15-year old girl was raped in the Directorship Department of Women’s Affairs of this province. Six guards of this office have been arrested on suspicions of being involved. It is not yet clear whether the girl was gang-raped or raped turn by turn, but local authorities have said that her condition is not serious. Full news...
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January 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: An explosion Sunday killed seven Afghan villagers as they tried to pull bodies of dead insurgents from the rubble of a village mosque after a night raid by NATO and Afghan troops, officials said. Four insurgents and an Afghan soldier were also reported killed in the operation. Night raids have long been a contentious issue between Afghanistan’s president... Full news...
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January 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalResearch: America came to stay. Accelerated withdrawal claims reflect subterfuge. Washington officials and media scoundrels don’t explain. Msinformation and illusion substitute for reality. Reuters headlined “Obama, Karzai accelerate end of US combat role in Afghanistan.” “Obama’s determin(ed) to wind down a long, unpopular war.” Full news...
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January 13, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The crime branch chief for the Nahrin district of northern Baghlan province has been referred to the military prosecution office on the charge of sexually abusing a girl, an official said on Sunday. The girl was abducted from the Khanabad district of Kunduz to Baghlan province two months ago, the provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Asadullah Sherzad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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January 12, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A newly-wed woman was killed by her in-laws in the fourth police district of the capital of western Herat province, officials said on Saturday. Dunia, 22, was killed in Baraman area late on Friday, police spokesman, Noor Khan Nekzad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. With the motive behind her murder yet to be known, five suspects have been detained. Full news...
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January 11, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: As two Afghan farmers tell it, they are part of the “good” militia in their northern province: unofficial armed men who protect schools, families, and farms, and have chased Taliban insurgents away. They are not part of the “bad” militia, they say, that since 2010 has especially traumatized parts of Kunduz Province by forcibly extracting “taxes” from villagers, and engaging in killings and rape – all in the name of fighting insurgents themselves. Full news...
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January 7, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: The Kabul sky is dotted with kites on summer evenings. For Mohammad Masoud Nassiri, 40, they bring back painful memories of the evening when his parents and sister were killed. Seconds before the blast he had left his father’s hand to run after a falling kite. Kites are a national passion in Afghanistan. Boys grow up learning how to get it into the air and “cut” a rival’s kite. Full news...
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January 7, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
World Socialist Web Site: As the 2014 deadline for the end of NATO operations in Afghanistan draws closer, the Obama administration is preparing for a continued US military presence into the indefinite future. The plans, reported by the New York Times, underscore the predatory, neo-colonial character of the American-led occupation. Full news...
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January 6, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than 20 people were severely beaten by a group of Afghan National Army (ANA) troops on Sunday on the outskirts of Mehtarlam, the capital of eastern Laghman province, residents said. The incident came a day after unknown individuals hauled down a national flag on a local police post and tore it up in Obozai area, said Malak Naqib Jalili, who got one his hands broken in the assault. Full news...
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January 5, 2013 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WNN/RFE/RL: An Afghan prisoner serving 20 years for murdering his in-laws is now suspected of strangling his young bride during a conjugal visit. Din Mohammad, who is serving his sentence at a prison in the northern Samangan Province, is accused by police of killing his wife when she visited him on January 1. Mohammad was convicted in 2009 of killing his mother-in-law, brother-in-law, and sister-in-law during a bloody rampage. Full news...
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