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August 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: After US Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales allegedly walked off a US base in Kandahar last March and went house to house, killing a total of 17 Afghan civilians, many worried that the Taliban would capitalize on the incident and the long restive province would revert to violence. Yet more than five months later, violence in Kandahar remains at record lows. Full news...
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August 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: Three suicide bombers killed at least 30 civilians in a coordinated attack Tuesday in a city in southwestern Afghanistan, according to Afghan officials. Later, at least 10 civilians were killed in a bombing in a bazaar in the north. The attacks began early Tuesday afternoon when 10 insurgents entered Zaranj, the capital of southwestern Nimruz province... Full news...
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August 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: A remote-controlled bomb has ripped apart a bus in a popular picnic spot just a few miles north-west of Kabul, killing nine civilians and injuring five others, in a worrying sign of violence encroaching upon the Afghan capital. Paghman district is secure enough that a mob of furious villagers chased down and attacked a man they spotted detonating the explosives... Full news...
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August 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
International Business Times: Iran has increased its support for the Taliban insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan by opening an office for the militant group in the eastern part of Iran. Moreover, the Quds Force of Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps is reportedly considering sending surface-to-air missiles to Afghanistan. Full news...
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August 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Taleban control of Logar, a province just south of the capital Kabul, is so complete that the insurgents’ own justice system is seen as preferable to state institutions. Locals say Taleban courts might be rough and ready, but at least they do not require bribes to be paid to massively corrupt state officials and judges. Full news...
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July 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Taliban fighters whipped two suspected kidnappers in the Charkh district of central Logar province on Saturday, said an official. The rebels brought the suspects on motorcycles to the Shash Qala bazaar and asked locals to converge on the area, a resident of the district, Abdul Basir, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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July 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A suicide bomber blew himself up Saturday in a wedding hall in northern Afghanistan, killing more than 20 people including a well-known commander in an attack that deals a setback to efforts to unify the nation’s ethnic factions, Afghan officials said. Ahmad Khan Samangani, an ethnic Uzbek who is also a member of parliament, was welcoming guests to his daughter’s wedding when the explosion occurred in Aybak, the capital of Samangan province. Full news...
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July 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group dictates law even near the Afghan capital. In the three-minute video, a turban-clad man approaches a woman kneeling in the dirt and shoots her five times at close range... Full news...
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July 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IANS: The arrest of two children and a teenager with bombs and remote-controlled devices in Afganistan’s former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar has sparked fears that the militant outfit could be training more children as suicide bombers. The children were aged eight and 12 and the teenager was 17 years old, Xinhua reported citing Kandahar province spokesman Jawed Faisal. Full news...
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June 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: Twenty people were killed when seven Taliban militants shot their way into a much-visited lakeside resort here and took scores of hostages during an 11-hour siege, Afghan officials said on Friday. The 20 victims included the hotel’s manager, several private security guards and a police officer, officials said, and the seven attackers died as Afghan security forces battled into the compound. Full news...
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June 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Six members of a family were killed and four others wounded during a roadside bombing in central Logar province on Wednesday, officials said. Deputy police chief, Col. Rais Khan Sadiq, told Pajhwok Afghan News the nomadic Kochi family suffered the casualties when the tractor-trolley they were travelling in struck the roadside bomb at about 2pm. Full news...
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June 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: A suicide bomber killed 21 people including three U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint in a packed market in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday — the third assault targeting Americans in as many days. Wednesday’s attack took place in a marketplace in the city of Khost, near the Pakistani border and about 90 miles southeast of the Afghan capital, Kabul. Full news...
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June 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A commander was among 10 Taliban militants killed during a public uprising in the Andar district of southern Ghazni province, an official said on Tuesday. Over the past two months, angry residents began armed resistance against rebels after the forcible closure of schools and bazaars -- provoking anger among the people of Andar. Full news...
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June 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Three suicide attackers blew themselves up in the largest city in southern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing 22 people and wounding at least 50 others in a dusty marketplace that was turned into a gruesome scene of blood and bodies. In the east, Afghan officials and residents said a pre-dawn NATO airstrike targeting militants killed civilians celebrating a wedding, including women and children... Full news...
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May 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UN News Center: The number of civilian casualties in Afghanistan in the first four months of 2012 is 21 per cent lower than during the same period last year, the top United Nations envoy in the country reported today, while adding that deaths continued to occur at “unacceptable” levels. A study conducted by the human rights section of the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) found there were 579 civilian casualties and 1,216... Full news...
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May 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Msnbc.com: Members of the Afghan army are forging secret alliances with the Taliban, threatening to undermine the ability of Afghan authorities to maintain control just as NATO troops prepare to hand over power to the country’s security forces, Britain's Sunday Times reported. In Ghazni province an hour from capital Kabul, Afghan army lieutenant Mohammad Wali admitted to the newspaper that he and a local Taliban commander were working together. Full news...
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May 10, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Taliban militants dressed in police uniforms blew themselves up after being caught trying to sneak through a checkpoint Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, killing five people, authorities said. Police at the checkpoint in Paktika province’s Yayakhil district became suspicious of the men and told them to stop, said provincial police chief Dawlit Khan Zadran. Full news...
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April 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: For months after the allied invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, there were no Taliban attacks in Kabul. Now, as the weekend’s gun, rocket and suicide attacks demonstrate, they are frequent and fatally effective. This is one measure of the progress of the war, more than 10 years on. There are many others. According to a devastating account from a senior US army officer, the Taliban now range freely across much of the country. Full news...
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April 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan in coordinated attacks Sunday, with explosions and gunfire rocking the diplomatic enclave in the capital as militants took over buildings and tried to enter parliament. Outside the capital, attackers also targeted government buildings in Logar province, the airport in Jalalabad, and a police facility in the town of Gardez in Paktya province. Full news...
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April 12, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: It’s the type of punishment that many thought would vanish with the fall of the Taliban, but Shari'a law is alive and well in Afghanistan. One unidentified 20-year-old man has felt the full force of the Islamic legal code in the northern Afghan province of Baghan. Full news...
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April 10, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: Suicide bombers killed at least nineteen people in attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday, including 11 Afghan police, as insurgents ramped up violence ahead of the traditional summer fighting months. Two bombers, including one wearing a head-to-toe covering burqa, blew up a car laden with explosives on the airport road outside the western city of Herat... Full news...
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April 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Friday Times: Pakistan has been actively pursuing a foreign policy rooted in religious discourse vis-a-vis Afghanistan. This is also because Kabul was pursuing a foreign policy rooted in secular Pashtun ethno-nationalism, including its claims over the Pashtun territory of Pakistan. Secondly, Pakistani army, deeply concerned about its military imbalance vis-a-vis India... Full news...
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March 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
USA Today: Ahmad Jan lives just a few miles from the capital of this restive province and its government-sanctioned court. Even so, if he or his neighbors have a legal matter, they prefer to go to the Taliban or tribal elders for a ruling. “The Taliban courts don't disturb people and tell them to wait for a long time before hearing a case, or demand bribes,” says Jan, an out-of-work laborer. Full news...
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March 5, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: Women are subordinate to men, should not mix in work or education and must always have a male guardian when they travel, according to new guidelines from Afghanistan's top clerics which critics say are dangerously reminiscent of the Taliban era. The edicts appeared in a statement that also encouraged insurgents to join peace talks... Full news...
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February 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: An Afghan government request that female television presenters don headscarves and avoid heavy make-up angered journalists on Tuesday, who said the move was proof authorities expected the Taliban to regain a share of power. Afghan and U.S. officials have been seeking peace negotiations with the Islamist group ousted over a decade ago... Full news...
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February 4, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: A record number of Afghan civilians were killed in the conflict here last year, the majority at the hands of the Taliban and other insurgent groups whose use of homemade bombs became more prevalent and whose suicide bombers killed more people each time, according to the annual United Nations report on civilian casualties. Full news...
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January 13, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The mission was as simple as touching two wires together, the little boy was promised. The resulting blast would obliterate the American infidels – but God would spare him from the flame and shrapnel. Abdul Samat would be unharmed and free to run back to the men who had fitted his bomb vest. Full news...
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January 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Taliban have executed an 18-year-old boy on the accusation of spying for the government in southeastern Paktika province, an official said on Saturday. The victim identified as Sher Khan, was killed by the insurgent a day earlier in the Mohammad Khel village near the provincial capital, Sharan, the governor’s spokesman, Mukhlis Afghan, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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January 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Explosives hidden in a trash heap killed six children in southern Afghanistan Friday, police said, and five NATO troops were killed in roadside bombings in the volatile region. The children were rummaging through the trash for food scraps and bottles in the southern province of Uruzgon when the blast killed them, police spokesman Farid Ayal said. Full news...
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December 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Christian Science Monitor: Before a bomb blast killed his son and injured three of his daughters, hospitalizing two of them, life was anything but easy for Ahmad Shah. Like many in his poor Kabul neighborhood, he eked out enough to survive by pulling a rickshaw-like cart made of scrap wood. Merchants who either had a small load or couldn’t afford a truck hired Mr. Shah to drag their goods across town on his cart. Full news...
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