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June 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: A deadly car bomb has hit a hospital in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province. There is confusion about the number of casualties, with officials saying between 20 and 60 people have died. The hospital building was destroyed and people buried under rubble. Casualties included women, children and elderly. Full news...
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June 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalPost: The man sits cross-legged on the floor of his mud house, one of several in a walled compound on the barren outskirts of Kabul, welcoming his visitors with tea, cookies and a wan smile. There’s nothing out here but a few other mud-brick structures, hidden behind walls ― no stores, no schools, no toys for the wide-eyed children. Behind them dusty emptiness stretches as far as the eye can see. Full news...
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June 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IPS: During his intensive initial round of media interviews as commander in Afghanistan in August 2010, Gen. David Petraeus released figures to the news media that claimed spectacular success for raids by Special Operations Forces: in a 90-day period from May through July, SOF units had captured 1,355 rank and file Taliban, killed another 1,031, and killed or captured 365 middle or high-ranking Taliban. Full news...
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June 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: A series of bombs and explosions killed 20 people in Afghanistan’s southern and eastern flashpoints on Saturday, among them at least eight children and four women, according to government officials. In the deadliest attack, a vehicle hit a mine in Arghandab district of the southern province of Kandahar Full news...
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June 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Jerusalem Post: Iran has been caught red-handed in 10 different attempts in recent years to transfer weaponry to terrorists throughout the Middle East, including a recent case, in April, when a shipment of advanced missiles was caught en-route to Taliban forces in Afghanistan, according to a United Nations report obtained Thursday by The Jerusalem Post. Full news...
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June 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Gunmen stormed a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan, killing nine people including the groom as they opened fire on a crowd of about 30 family members, officials said on Thursday. The assailants entered a field where the groom and his family members had gathered late on Wednesday night in the remote Dur Baba district and started shooting, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai... Full news...
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May 27, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: In average, 10 incidents of armed conflicts and 39 consequent deaths were reported in three main South Asian states - Afghanistan, India and Pakistan - on every day of last month. Every fourth victim of violence was a civilian. Afghanistan continued to be worst hit state by violence in the region as about half of the incidents as well as resultant deaths were reported in the country. Full news...
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May 25, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Militants cut off the nose and ears of an Afghan civil servant, then shot him dead near the capital apparently because he worked for the government, police said Wednesday. Omid, a 30-year-old who like many Afghans went by only one name, was kidnapped in Puli Alam, the capital of Logar province, 60 kilometres (40 miles) south of Kabul, on Tuesday. Full news...
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May 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CounterPunch: Malalai Joya is an Afghan activist, author, and former politician. She served as an elected member of the 2003 Loya Jirga and was a parliamentary member of the National Assembly of Afghanistan, until she was expelled for denouncing other members as warlords and war criminals. She has been a vocal critic of both the US/NATO occupation and the Karzai government, as well as the Taliban and Islamic fundamentalists. Full news...
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May 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: At least 35 construction workers have been shot dead and 20 injured by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, an official says. Eight insurgents were also killed as guards returned fire during Wednesday night’s ambush, a Paktia provincial spokesman told the BBC. The attack took place in a mountainous district on the highway linking Paktia and Khost provinces. Full news...
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May 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: The execution of Bibi Sanubar prompted revulsion inside Afghanistan and abroad after she was imprisoned, given 200 lashes before a crowd and then shot three times in the head. Her death in an insurgent-controlled district of the north-west fed fears of a possible return to Taliban-era capital punishment if concessions were made in any peace settlement with the militants. Full news...
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May 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: Police seized a nine-year-old and three others aged between 12 and 14 as they tried to cross into eastern Afghanistan. A spokesman for the Afghan intelligence agency said the boy is believed to be the youngest suicide bomber ever intercepted, though children as young as five have been used to plant bombs in Helmand. Full news...
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May 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: At least 13 people, including children and women, were injured when a rocket shell landed near a house where a wedding party was taking place in the eastern province of Kunar on Friday, police said. The incident took place in the Watapur district early Friday when guests were gathered at a house to attend a wedding ceremony, police chief, Gen. Khalilullah Ziayee, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Headless bodies of four students were on Monday found in a village in southeastern Khost province, a public representative said. The decapitated young boys belonged to two families living in Zoor village of Musakhel district. Their bodies were found Monday morning near the village, Shafiq Mujahid, a provincial council member, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 7, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Intense fighting has taken place in Afghanistan’s second city of Kandahar amid co-ordinated militant attacks, including at least six suicide bombs. The Taliban said it was behind the triple assault on the provincial governor’s office, the Afghan spy agency and a police station. At least two people were killed and 23 injured in the fighting, which spread panic on the streets. Full news...
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April 29, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Weasel Zippers: Insurgents raided the home of a soldier from the Afghan National Army, beat and tied up two male relatives and murdered four female relatives in Barabat-Jaba village, Kunar province, April 25. Reports from the area state that the women, a wife, mother, sister and 4-year-old daughter of the ANA soldier, were shot to death in their home by the insurgents... Full news...
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April 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: The great escape from Sarposa prison began with a knocking beneath the floor. A 25-year-old Afghan recounted in a telephone interview Wednesday how three inmates at the prison in the southern city of Kandahar were expecting the knock. When it came about 11:30 p.m. Sunday, they knew what to do. They knocked back. Full news...
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April 23, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than a dozen people, including six civilians, have been killed in an ongoing firefight between insurgents and NATO-led soldiers in the Alasai district of central Kapisa province, officials said on Saturday. “With the clash still in progress, seven insurgents and six ordinary people have so far been killed, and there are fears of more casualties,” Alasai district chief, Mullah Mohammad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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April 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Guardian News & Media: When plans to regulate Afghanistan’s booming wedding industry were announced earlier in the year, the government said it merely wanted to curb the country’s mania for lavish weddings that drag people into debt. But according to drafts of the law it is also aiming to introduce various public morality provisions in yet another sign of the casual erosion of the small freedoms women have won since 2001. And in an echo of the Taliban regime, which used to police weddings ... Full news...
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March 28, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
VOA: Officials in eastern Afghanistan say three suicide car bombers have attack a construction company, killing 24 people and wounding more than 50 others. Authorities said the attack happened late Sunday in the Barmal district of Paktika province, when the bombers killed a security guard and then detonated a truck full of explosives. Full news...
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March 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Ahmad Waleed has trouble remembering things. Waleed blames his forgetfulness on a suicide attack which he survived three years ago. The boy was among dozens of students escorting a parliamentary delegation to a sugar factory in northern Baghlan province on Nov. 6, 2007, when a bomber blew himself up and killed 74 people. Full news...
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March 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Reuters: A suicide attack on an army recruitment centre in northern Afghanistan has killed 37 people. It was the third major assault in the area in less than a month, the deputy governor said. A Taliban spokesman, Zabihullah Mujahid, claimed responsibility for the attack on behalf of the militant Islamist group. Dozens more were wounded, officials said. Full news...
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March 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Deutsche Presse Agentur: Taliban militants cut off the ears of four Afghans working for a government-funded development project in the southern province of Kandahar, the provincial government said Thursday. The militants on Wednesday detained eight people, including four children, who all work for the development project in the Zhari district, a statement issued by the governor’s office said. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Iranian weapons en route to Taliban have been seized by International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) in the border city of Nimroz. The weapons include 48 rockets with a range of 20 kilometers, officials have said. The seized rockets reportedly double the usual range of the rockets used by the Taliban. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: A sharp jump in assassinations and a rise in suicide and roadside bombings in Afghanistan last year led to an increase in civilian casualties, the United Nations said Wednesday. The United Nations documented 2,777 civilian deaths in 2010, which it said was a 15 percent rise over the number killed in fighting the previous year. Full news...
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March 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Insurgents shot dead a man and his son on the charge of spying for the government in Khashrod district of southwestern Nimroz province, officials said on Thursday. The two were gunned down while returning home from a mosque, the provincial police chief, Abdul Jabbar Purdali, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The father, 50, and his son, 18, had no links to the government, he said. Full news...
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March 8, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Taliban fighters on Tuesday claimed responsibility for an attack on a female police official in the western province of Herat. Gunmen on motorcycles shot and wounded 2nd Lt. Maryam, head of a police recruitment centre, after she left her home in Paen Aab and went out of the city. Full news...
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March 1, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Taliban insurgents killed four people for allegedly spying on behalf of the US in North Waziristan, a tribal region of Pakistan close to the Afghan border, an official said on Tuesday. The dead bodies were found on a roadside on Tuesday morning in Datakhel area on the outskirts of Miranshah town, an official in the town, Mohammad Imran, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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February 26, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Post: More than 200 Afghans were killed in attacks and military operations during the past two weeks, Afghan officials said Saturday, calling it the deadliest period for civilians since the war began. Two attacks on Saturday added to that toll and fueled fears that violence will climb as winter, typically a slow fighting season in Afghanistan, gives way to spring. Full news...
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February 24, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: The security situation in Afghanistan has worsened to its lowest point since the toppling of the Taliban a decade ago and attacks on aid workers are at unprecedented levels, a UN envoy said Wednesday. “From the humanitarian perspective, security is on everyone’s minds,” said Robert Watkins, the outgoing UN deputy special representative of the Secretary General for Afghanistan. Full news...
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