PAN: A rocket struck a school in central Kapisa province, killing the principle, and injuring two teachers and five students, officials said on Sunday. The rocket landed on Wahdat High School at 11am during a clash between Taliban fighters and security personnel in Tagab district, the district police chief, Col. Padshah Gul Bakhtyar, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full story ...
The Age: ON A HOT Afghan morning, The Saturday Age steps past a child’s upturned tricycle, and around a dilapidated armoured vehicle. A vulture carefully watches as we head inside to speak with the man some call the King of Oruzgan. As Western faith in President Hamid Karzai’s capacity to deliver government fades, and with NATO increasingly relying on sometimes brutal allies to fight t Full story ...
PAN: Four children in the eastern province of Kunar were killed by missiles fired from Pakistan, officials said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday night when missiles fired from Pakistan’s Mohmand Agency landed on residents’ houses in Shunkrai area of the Sarkani district, provincial governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full story ...
The Guardian: As he saunters into the shisha bar atop one of Kabul’s most exclusive hotels, the man accused of rivalling only the Taliban in terms of the damage he has done to Afghanistan does not seem particularly haunted by his actions. Nor does he seem worried that he might have to answer for his role in what is, in relative terms given Afghanistan’s tiny economy, the biggest bank collapse in history. Full story ...
International Affairs Review: When the score is tight at the end of a baseball game, a team’s manager calls in his closer, a relief pitcher reserved for throwing the final outs. In April, President Barack Obama called in his closer for Afghanistan, Ryan C. Crocker, the former ambassador to post-war Iraq. Full story ...
The Sydney Morning Herald: Targeted violence against female public officials, dismal healthcare and desperate poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country in which to be born a woman, a new global survey shows. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia feature in descending order after Afghanistan in the list of the five worst countries, the poll among gender experts shows. Full story ...
WFRV News: While the war rages on in Afghanistan the military continues to cope with a battle here at home, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. To date, the military has diagnosed 78,000 cases of PTSD, but the Veteran’s Administration says that number is inaccurate. To catch up with numbers like that the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend new programs to help both soldiers and their families. Full story ...
Payam-e-Zan: This time, the American invader forces that have no other mission rather than killing and massacre of our innocent compatriots through bombardment and blind firings, turned Takhar province, north of Afghanistan, into slaughter ground. On May 27, 2011, around 11 o’clock in the night, four helicopters landed in Gomali Village of Taliqan, capital city of Takhar, and started house search. Full story ...
Empirestrikesblack: A 11 June press statement from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan slates May 2011 as the deadliest month for Afghan civilians since at least 2007. However this big-hearted announcement conceals a grossly pernicious attempt to cover up US-NATO killings of civilians in occupied Afghanistan. Full story ...
The Independent: Not a single Afghan police or army unit is capable of maintaining law and order in the war-torn country without the support of coalition forces, the Independent reveals. Almost a decade after international troops were sent in to overthrow the Taleban and help to establish a functioning democracy in Afghanistan, a combination of poor training, lack of numbers, corruption and illiteracy... Full story ...
The New York Times: Arbakai militias are a growing feature of life in northern Afghanistan, and many of them are actually former Taliban insurgents who have declared for the government side. So if they levy taxes on local villagers and beat up people they do not get along with, at least they’re not fighting on the side of the enemy, right? Full story ...
Xinhua: The war-torn Afghanistan is one of the most mine contaminated country in the globe as an estimated of 2,000 Afghans become disabled each year due to mine blasts and related incidents in the country. “The mine explosion not only severed my legs but also destroyed my life years ago,” said Afghan landmine victim Faizullah, 45, who lost both of his legs in a mine blast in Kabul province. Full story ...
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 story ...
WSWS: Four German soldiers have been killed in the last two weeks in Afghanistan. Two were killed in a bomb attack on their patrol vehicle, and two more were victims of a bombing of a meeting of senior military and security forces in Taloqan, the capital of Takhar Province, in northern Afghanistan on May 28. Full story ...
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 story ...
The Sydney Morning Herald: Information in a new report suggests Afghanistan will collapse into chaos – or even more chaos – when America and her allies pull out in 2014. A huge proportion of the aid money being poured into the country now is going either to corruption or to prop up people and institutions who will not last five minutes once the foreign aid tap is turned off. Full story ...
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 story ...
UPI: Just over half of U.S. adults favor pulling out of Afghanistan while one-third think U.S. troops should remain, a poll released Thursday indicated. The Harris poll for BBC World News America found 51 percent do not believe U.S. policies in Afghanistan are likely to succeed while 14 percent say they will. Full story ...
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 story ...
AFP: War may kill thousands of civilians a year in Afghanistan, but choking air pollution in the capital Kabul is more deadly, experts say. Signs of the silent killer -- pollutants emitted by old cars, poor quality fuel and people burning trash -- are everywhere on the city’s chaotic streets. Men walking or cycling usually cover their mouths with masks or scarves to keep out the dust. Full story ...
Reuters: Afghanistan is making progress weeding out children from its police forces but is only starting to tackle persistent allegations of sexual abuse and may still have minors serving informally, UN officials said Tuesday. Peter Wittig, Germany’s ambassador to the United Nations and head of a mission to Afghanistan looking at protection of children in war, also said... Full story ...
PAN: Police arrested three people accused of raping a teenage girl in the northern province of Takhar, officials said on Tuesday. The 15-year-old was gang-raped by five men in the Tash Tamshoq village of Kalifgan district on Monday night after they forced their way into her house. The alleged rapists tied up her mother and raped the girl... Full story ...
PAN: A family member of two lawmakers has been arrested by counternarcotics police with 52.7 kilograms of opium in northeastern badakhshan province, an official said on Tuesday. Hedayatullah, the brother of Mariam Kufi and Fauzia Kufi, two female parliamentarians from the northeastern province, was arrested along with three others companions on Monday for allegedly carrying the opium in a car... Full story ...
PAN: Two young girls were killed while a third survived strangulation in eastern and southeastern Afghanistan, officials said Monday. The body of one girl was found in the Mohammad Khel area outside the capital of Khost province, the Quick Reaction Force commander said. Full story ...
Radio Cadena Agramonte: The war in Afghanistan costs US taxpayers two billion dollars a week, according to calculations made by the Department of Defense Monday. The information appeared in the digital edition of The New York Times, on a study of the US government to cut its military presence in Afghanistan. Full story ...
IWPR: As the Afghan government prides itself on boosting budget revenues, it has been accused of using methods that hurt people on modest incomes while letting large businesses off some or all their taxes. In an interview for IWPR, finance ministry spokesman Aziz Shams said domestic revenues reached 1.8 billion US dollars in the last fiscal year, which runs from March to March. Full story ...
IRIN: Clashes between government forces and the Taliban have displaced at least 12,000 people in Afghanistan’s remote northwestern province of Faryab, creating a dire need for water, sanitation and other essentials, the Afghan Red Crescent Society (ARCS) warns. Full story ...
Herald Sun: ALMOST 10 years after September 11, most Australians think the war on terror is endless and will not be worth the cost. A survey by the US Studies Centre in Sydney shows 63 per cent of Australians see no end in sight. Only one in five Australians thinks the war, including battles in Afghanistan and Iraq, is being won, compared with almost one in three Americans. Full story ...
Globe and Mail: Smoke billows above coils of razor wire after an earth-shaking explosion kills one of Afghanistan’s most powerful generals. The next day, a young officer with a neatly trimmed beard accepts a new job during a brief ceremony in the wood-panelled office of a southern governor. A strongman dies and another rises. The bloody politics of Afghanistan travelled full circle with the... Full story ...
CNN: A new report warns that billions of dollars of U.S. taxpayers’ money may be wasted because of the inability of Iraq and Afghanistan to keep American-financed projects running. The report released Friday by the Commission on Wartime Contracting comes as the Obama administration is poised to withdraw militarily from Iraq by the end of the year and to begin its drawdown in Afghanistan this summer. Full story ...
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