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March 22, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: An Afghan cleric Maulavi Ayaz Niazi has been under for publicly endorsing the brutal murder and burning of a woman over alleged burning of holy Quran. Maulavi Niazi endorsed the murder of 27-year-old Farkhunda while speaking among the participants of Friday prayers and a day after she was lynched by Kabul mob. Full news...
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March 19, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Los Angeles Times: A woman who reportedly burned a copy of the Koran inside a riverside shrine in the Afghan capital was surrounded by an angry crowd, set ablaze and dumped into the chilly waters Thursday evening in a startling act of mob violence. The parents of the 32-year-old woman, who died in the attack, told authorities her name was Farkhunda and that she suffered from mental illness, said Farid Afzal, head of investigations for Kabul police. Full news...
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March 17, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Sputnik: Documents declassified at a trial of a suspected terrorist show that millions of dollars in CIA funds fell into the hands of al Qaeda in 2010. The money was used by Afghan officials in a ransom payment.Once again, US money funneled through the CIA into the Middle East has ended up being used against… well, the US... Correspondence made public at the trial of Abid Naseer, a Pakistani al-Qaeda operative convicted in Brooklyn of supporting terrorism and conspiring to bomb a British shopping center. Full news...
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March 15, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Life has become harder for Afghan refugees in Pakistan after the attack on a school in Peshawar last December that killed 132 students. Media reports say the police have launched counter operations against refugees. The police have ringed camps, and put restrictions on the freedom of movement of refugees, even those who are registered and possess valid identity papers. Full news...
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March 10, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: A series of bombings across Afghanistan, including one targeting a police checkpoint in the country’s south, killed at least 13 people Tuesday, authorities said. The day’s deadliest attack targeted the checkpoint on the outskirts of Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, killing eight people and wounding 23, said Omar Zwak, the spokesman for the provincial governor. The dead included six civilians and two police officers, he said. Full news...
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March 9, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Diplomat:The Islamic State’s bulldozing of statues, walls, and a castle in the ancient Assyrian capital of Nimrud drew international condemnation last week. Writer Mohammad Rabia Chaar, speaking with Anne Barnard of The New York Times, was particularly sickened. “Daesh wants people wit no memory, with no history, with no culture, no past, no future,” Chaar said, referring to an Arabic derivation of the group’s name. ISIS even destroyed the winged bulls that adorn Iraqi currency, calling the statues “false idols.” Full news...
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March 7, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A young woman was decapitated by her fianc?, a member of the local Public Protection Force, in Feroza district of Herat province on Saturday. Police officials said the man has already been arrested, and the victim's family have called for justice. Full news...
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March 5, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Samangan is home to some of Afghanistan’s largest coal mines, yet many of those who work inside them are just children. TOLOnews report Karimi Amini visited mines in the Dare Soof district of Samangan province and investigated the child labor conditions in the mines there. Full news...
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March 4, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Human Rights Watch: Afghanistan’s new government should prosecute officials and commanders whose serious human rights abuses have long gone unpunished, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. US officials should press President Ashraf Ghani to take up justice for past abuses as a top priority during Ghani’s expected March 2015 visit to Washington, DC. Full news...
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March 3, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: The victim of sexual abuse, who was raped by a local mullah in northern Takhar province eight months back, was threatened to not speak, is now eight months pregnant. The 13-year-old victim who does not want to be named, was sent to her local mosque by her family to receive an education in religious studies by the 35 year old mullah who raped her, warning her not her to raise her voice and informing her family of the crime. Full news...
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March 2, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: An Afghan official says two roadside bombings have killed at least eight civilians, including women and children, in the country’s east. Hazrat Hussain Mashreqiwal, spokesman for the police chief in Nangarhar province, said at least six civilians, including two women and two children, were killed Full news...
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March 1, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Provincial Council head of Farah, Farid Bakhtawar, said that people are being bought and sold as suicide attackers from inside the province's district of Bakwa, turning Farah into the insurgents' main western base. According to Bakhtawar, these people bought as suicide attackers are assigned a specific target throughout the country. Full news...
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February 27, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Intercept: An armored vehicle ran over a six-year-old boy’s legs: 11,000 USD. A jingle truck was “blown up by mistake”: 15,000 USD. A controlled detonation broke eight windows in a mosque: 106 USD. A boy drowned in an anti-tank ditch: 1,916 USD. A 10-ton truck ran over a cucumber crop: 180 USD. A helicopter “shot bullets hitting and killing seven cows”: 2,253 USD. Full news...
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February 26, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The torture and mistreatment of people arrested for conflict-related activities remain widespread in Afghan prisons, the United Nations said in a report released on Wednesday, pointing to a continued challenge for the nation’s new government. The report said that 35 percent of the 790 detainees interviewed from February 2013 to December 2014 claimed to have been subjected to mistreatment, including beatings with pipes, electrical shocks and near asphyxiation. Full news...
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February 25, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: Alanches caused by a heavy winter snow have killed at least 108 people in northeastern Afghanistan, an emergency official said Wednesday, as rescuers clawed through debris with their hands to save those buried beneath. The avalanches buried homes across four northeastern provinces, said Mohammad Aslam Syas, the deputy director of the Afghanistan Natural Disaster Management Authority. Full news...
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February 24, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: Masked gunmen have abducted 30 Shia Muslim men who were travelling by bus through central Afghanistan, according to local authorities. The men, members of the minority Hazara ethnic group, were taken on Monday evening in Zabul province, on the road between the western city of Herat and Kabul. Full news...
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February 24, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WSWS: Less than two months after President Barack Obama announced an end to US combat operations in Afghanistan, top Pentagon officials have made it clear that these murderous operations are not only continuing, they are escalating, while plans for the withdrawal of American troops are being reconsidered. At the end of last year, the American president declared that “the longest war in American history is coming to a responsible conclusion.” Full news...
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February 22, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Associated Press: The United States is considering slowing its military exit from Afghanistan by keeping a larger-than-planned troop presence this year and next because the new Afghan government is proving to be a more reliable partner, US defense secretary Ash Carter said Saturday. Carter, on his first overseas trip since starting the Pentagon job Tuesday, also said the Obama administration is “rethinking” the counterterrorism mission in Afghanistan, although he did not elaborate. Full news...
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February 21, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Officials in western Herat province said that 448 cases of violence against women had been registered with 34 women lost their lives during the past nine months. Efforts by international and locals’ organizations had been intensified to eliminate violence against women in Afghanistan, but the menace against women continued. Full news...
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February 20, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: There was a 22 percent rise in conflict-related deaths and injuries of Afghan civilians in 2014, says a new UN report. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) says increased ground engagements between parties to the armed conflict in Afghanistan are behind the rise. Full news...
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February 18, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Decades of war have had a disastrous effect on Afghans’ mental health, according to panellists in a series of IWPR-organised debates. At one event held on February 1 at the women’s affairs department in the Wardak province, southwest of Kabul, Dr Hanifa Yusufi noted that decades of conflict had had a profound impact, especially on women and young children. Full news...
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February 17, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Ariana News: Firuz, a 23 year old Afghan boy burned himself on Saturday at Pashtunistan cross-road of Kabul City after her favorite girl gang raped by a group of unknown men. He died at the same day after he burned himself, but he left a letter asking the people to stand firmly against injustice so they do not face with the same situation. Full news...
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February 16, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Monday announced that more than 4,250 cases of violence against women have been recorded in the past nine months. A number of analysts have said that the main factor behind the growing issue of violence against women is the non-implementation of law. Full news...
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February 15, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A 10-year-old girl from northern Balkh province has been forced to marry a boy whose sister eloped with the girl’s uncle, a decision by tribal elders as part of an old tradition called “Baad” aimed at settling disputes between the parties in conflict. In another case of violence against women in Herat, a man sliced his wife’s neck leaving her to die, according to the police. Full news...
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February 14, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: An eight-month pregnant mother lost her child after she was severely beaten by a Mullah who believed to be an exorcist in Chahar Dara district of Kunduz. The newly-wed woman, who requested her name not be revealed, said the Mullah named Dost Mohammad claimed that she was possessed after her husband’s family took her to him for a ritual treatment, when all she was suffering from was low blood pressure. Full news...
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February 13, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FoxNews.com: U.S. Special Forces soldiers and their Afghan allies have undertaken an increasing number of night raids targeting Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, despite Washington formally declaring an end to combat operations late last year, according to a published report. The New York Times reports that the increased raids are partially the result of intelligence seized in October of last year... Full news...
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February 12, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: If Americans utilized the outrage over American Sniper, the Brian Williams saga, and Kanye West rushing the stage at the Grammys, and aimed this vitriol at President Obama’s request for a new war, we could possibly avert yet another colossal mistake. Sadly, our nation will spend a great deal of time focusing on the whether or not a movie makes us more warlike, while overlooking the impact of real wars. Full news...
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February 11, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Workers of a textile factory on Wednesday protested against powerful individuals for grabbing houses the government has constructed for them in the capital of northern Baghlan province. Based on a decision by the parliament, the newly-constructed houses in Shar-i-Naw, Yaksad Penjakoti, Dosadkoti, Shashsadkoti areas of Pul-i-Khumri and those constructed on the left side of the Pul-i-Khumri river belong to workers of the textile factory. Full news...
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February 10, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Afghanistan’s high rate of unemployment is driving young men into the arms of insurgent groups, speakers at a series of recent IWPR-organised debates agreed. Participants in Paktika, Kunar and Helmand provinces all said that young men often had so few employment options that some travelled illegally to Pakistan or Iran to find work, while others joined an insurgent group. Full news...
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February 9, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A heavily pregnant woman, a policeman’s wife, was gang-raped by five men in northwestern Jawzjan province, an official said on Monday, as the victim threatened to commit suicide. A relative of the 17-year-old woman told Pajhwok Afghan News she was only a month away from giving birth when five men rapped her last night in Shiberghan, the provincial capital. Full news...
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