Politico: The Americans are dismantling their portion of nearby Bagram Air Base, and anything that they are not taking home or giving to the Afghan military, they destroy as completely as possible. “They left us nothing,” he [Afghan junk dealer] said. “They don’t trust us. They have destroyed our country. They are giving us only
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 10, 2021 ISLAMABAD – The Taliban have announced a nationwide cease-fire in Afghanistan that will take effect when the three-day annual Muslim festival of Eid-al-Fitr begins Thursday, marking the end of the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. The announcement follows a spike in attacks by the Islamist insurgent group against government forces
Tolo News: The Ministry of Public Health Monday reported 340 new positive cases of COVID-19 out of 2,514 samples tested in the last 24 hours. The ministry reported that the cumulative total of known COVID-19 cases is 62,403, the total number of reported deaths is 2,710, and the total number of recoveries is 54,382. Click
By Syed Zafar Mehdi via Press TV May 9, 2021 Hours after multiple explosions ripped through western Kabul’s Shia-dominated neighborhood of Dasht-e Barchi on Saturday, grief-stricken parents stood numb outside Sayed ush-Shuhada School, sifting through piles of blood-stained bags and books of their slain children. Three bombs struck outside the school entrance as students were
Ariana: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said Sunday in a statement that the Afghan government has to grant special protection to Hazaras and the community in Dasht-e-Barchi. The AIHRC said it was government’s duty to protect the Hazara community against crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing or genocide. The statement comes a day after
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 9, 2021 ISLAMABAD – The leader of Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency Sunday praised the ongoing withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the country, as officials in Kabul raised the death toll to more than 60 from the previous day’s multiple blasts outside a girls’ school in the capital. “We consider
Ariana: The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) Fatou Bensouda and her team met a high-level delegation from Afghanistan, including Foreign Minister Haneef Atmar, in a bid to achieve justice for the Afghan people by holding perpetrators of “atrocity crimes” accountable. Click here to read more (external link).