Khaama Press: The Afghanistan Football Federation (AFF) said the Afghan U-16s managed to secure a victory 1-0 over Tajikistan during the match on Saturday. Click here to read more (external link).
MEHTARLAM, Afghanistan, July 8 (Xinhua) — Two local policemen were killed and another injured after a police van ran over a mine outside Mehtarlam city, the capital of Afghanistan’s eastern Laghman province on Sunday, the spokesman for provincial governor, Sarhadi Zawak said. According to Zawak, a mine planted by militants on a road outside provincial
VOA News July 7, 2018 NATO said Saturday that a U.S. soldier had been killed and two others wounded in what it called an “apparent insider attack” in southern Afghanistan. Alliance officials said the two wounded service members were in stable condition and receiving medical treatment. A Taliban spokesman said in a statement that the
Tolo News: Members of the minority Sikh community in Afghanistan said their numbers have dropped sharply in the country over the years and that in Helmand alone, there are now only four Sikhs left, from the original 85 families. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 7, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan have attacked several locations in a troubled southeastern province, overrunning a key district headquarters and killing, among others, the regional commander of Afghan special police forces. The pre-dawn, coordinated assault targeted eight areas in Ghazni province, including Jaghato district, officials confirmed Saturday. Khaliq
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 6, 2018 Three children have been killed and seven others wounded when two roadside mines exploded in residential areas in Afghanistan’s southern Ghazni Province. Arif Noori, spokesman for the governor of Ghazi, said on July 6 that the two separate incidents occurred on the same day in the remote Gilan
Tolo News: Hundreds of protestors from Faryab province once again called on government to free Nizamuddin Qaisari, the police chief of Qaisar district and a close aide to the First Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum, as their protest entered its fourth day on Friday. The protesters also said they want Dostum, who is in exile in Turkey, to return to the country. Click here to
Foreign Policy: As in Iraq and Syria, the long war in Afghanistan has been particularly harsh on religious minorities. Afghanistan once had thriving Sikh and Hindu communities, but today, the numbers have been reduced to only the most determined and persistent. Click here to read more (external link).
The Times (UK): Some were wounded and came to rely on their captors, others feared what would happen to them back in Russia. Their lives now are very different to how they thought they would turn out when Soviet tanks rolled in to Afghanistan 39 years ago. Click here to read more (external link).