The Independent: Glass lifts carry people up to the second floor of the shopping mall where gold jewellery and Levi's jeans are being sold in bright new stores. A large poster of a woman in a miniskirt hugging a man is plastered outside a shoe store while music blares from the mall's speakers. But outside, just around the corner, women are begging on the streets. They are the hidden face of modern Kabul. Full story ...
IRIN News: Forty-eight-year-old Zahraa lived in the eastern Iranian city of Zabul for more than 12 years with her husband and two sons. On 8 May she was deported to Afghanistan for illegally staying in the country. She gave IRIN an account of what she said was her forced journey to Afghanistan. Full story ...
IRIN News: From dawn to dusk black smoke rises from the towering chimneys of brick-making factories in the Sorkhroad district of Afghanistan's eastern province of nangarhar. Seven-year-old Rahatullah works with his father and elder brother, Habibullah, aged 12, in a brick factory for over 12 hours a day. Full story ...
BBC Persian (Translated by RAWA): The new director of Ariana Airlines says that during last five years more than 60 million US Dollars has been embezzled in this company. Full story ...
Zee News: Air strikes called in by US special forces’ soldiers fighting with insurgents in southern Afghanistan killed at least 21 civilians, officials said today. One coalition soldier was also killed. Full story ...
AFP: Taliban insurgents and armed Afghan groups are processing opium in makeshift laboratories to maximise drug profits and better fund the fight against Western forces, a top US drug official said on Monday. Full story ...
The Associated Press: Britain's defense minister said Tuesday there was some indication that Iran may be helping Taliban forces fighting NATO troops in Afghanistan. Full story ...
The International Herald Tribune: Afghanistan's government, competing with the Taliban for public support and trying to fend off accusations that it is corrupt and ineffective, is moving to curb one of its own most impressive achievements: the country's flourishing independent news media. Full story ...
Pajhwok Afghan News: The war-era weapons were being smuggled from northern parts to the restive southern zone, said an official of the Disarmament of Irresponsible Armed Groups (DIAG) programme in Balkh on Sunday. Full story ...
Deccan Herald: According to an official report, 51 villagers died during a US-led operation against Taliban militants in western Afghanistan. Afghanistan can no longer accept or understand civilian deaths, President Hamid Karzai said, after officials reported that 51 villagers died during a US-led operation against Taliban militants in western Afghanistan. Full story ...
The Columbus Dispatch: "Respected people of Helmand," the radio message began, "The soldiers of the International Security Assistance Force and the Afghan National Army do not destroy poppy fields. They know that many people of Afghanistan have no choice but to grow poppy. ISAF and the ANA do not want to stop people from earning their livelihoods." It was such a sensible message that it almost had to be a mistake and, of course, it was. Full story ...
IRIN News: The family of Nezamuddin Mohammadi in the Iranian capital, Tehran, does not know that their only breadwinner has been deported to Afghanistan. "I was arrested at work and confined for two nights in a dark cell," Mohammadi told IRIN on Sunday in the Afghan border district of Islam Qala where deportees from Iran were taken. Full story ...
DAWN: The Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) Saturday took out a protest rally and staged a sit-in in front of the UN offices to observe as Black Day the coming into power of Jehadi groups in Kabul. Full story ...
Reuters via ABC News: Thousands of people, some shouting "Death to America" and carrying shrouded bodies, protested in the east of Afghanistan on Sunday after up to six people were killed during a raid by US-led coalition forces. Full story ...
Los Angeles Times: If there's one thing Abdul Rasul Sayyaf knows, it's how to guard an exposed flank.As one of many warlords battling for control of Kabul in the early 1990s, Sayyaf ordered his fighters to protect their positions and press for advantage — which they did by shelling civilian neighborhoods and slaughtering members of Afghanistan's oppressed ethnic Hazara minority, human rights groups say. Full story ...
Global Research: The occupation forces in Afghanistan are supporting the drug trade, which brings between 120 and 194 billion dollars of revenues to organized crime, intelligence agencies and Western financial institutions. Full story ...
The Associated Press: Afghanistan's U.S.-backed government, tarnished by corruption and unable to control large swaths of its own territory, is rapidly losing the support of ordinary Afghans, the former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke said Saturday. Full story ...
Press TV: A UN official has called for outside investment in women's health in Afghanistan to curb high rates of maternal deaths in the war-ravaged country. Full story ...
OhmyNews: In an apparent move to appease former strongmen and Jihadi commanders, the Afghan government has decided to award them special medals on April 28, the day when mujahideen or holy warriors overthrew the Russian-backed regime in Afghanistan in 1992. Full story ...
IRIN News: Local residents in the Sangeen district of the restive southern Afghan province of Helmand said armed Afghan men in military uniforms looted their homes and businesses in early April. There are conflicting reports on whether the men were allied with international forces fighting the Taliban or whether they were an independent militia. Full story ...
Reuters: Afghanistan's Taliban movement has used a 12-year-old boy to execute a man accused of helping U.S. forces hunt down and kill one of its top commanders in December, Al Arabiya television reported on Saturday. Full story ...
Reuters: Afghanistan's attorney-general, accused by critics of regularly breaking the law, has raided Tolo television, one of the country's most popular stations, over a news item, the broadcaster said on Wednesday. Full story ...
The Hindu: An old artillery shell exploded outside a school compound in western Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing three children and wounding four others, an official said. Full story ...
Associated Press: U.S. forces in Afghanistan recently intercepted Iranian-made mortars and other weaponry in Afghanistan, although it is not clear they were shipped directly from Iran, the military's top general said Tuesday. Full story ...
IRIN News: The United Nations and two prominent human rights organisations have raised grave concerns about the increasing number of civilians affected in armed conflicts in Afghanistan. On Monday, the New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a report on the dramatic rise in civilian casualties during insurgent attacks in Afghanistan. Full story ...
Pajhwok Afghan News: A man allegedly slaughtered his 14-year-old wife in Mohammad Agha district of the central Logar province last night, police said. Full story ...
BBC News: US marines violated international humanitarian law by using excessive violence in reaction to a suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan, a report says. Full story ...
Sunday Times: The bodies of nearly 400 Afghan civilians killed during the communist regime that ended in 1992 have been found in a mass grave in northeastern Afghanistan, officials said. Full story ...
IWPR: President Karzai may have helped save the Prodi government by trading Taliban prisoners for an Italian hostage, but in the process, he has damaged his own credibility at home. Full story ...
The Scotsman: ITALY'S government paid a ransom of £1 million to the Taliban to free an Italian photographer taken hostage in Afghanistan, an aid group has claimed. Full story ...
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