Ariana: Save the Children has called for all parties in the escalating conflict in Afghanistan to abide by international humanitarian law and ensure children and schools do not become collateral damage. In a statement issued by the organization, Save the Children stated that last week in Kandahar, it found about 25 schools damaged in one
1TV: Afghanistan’s government should release children detained for alleged association with armed insurgent groups, Human Rights Watch has said. Hundreds of children are currently detained for alleged involvement with the Taliban, the extremist armed group Islamic State-Khorasan Province (also known as IS-KP), or other armed groups, and are often tortured in facilities run by government
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 22, 2021 The United Nations says it continues to be concerned by the high number of children killed and maimed by all parties in the Afghan conflict — at least 2,619 last year. In its annual report on Children and Armed Conflict, published on June 22, the UN said it had
Ayaz Gul VOA News June 15, 2021 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Officials in conflict-torn Afghanistan said Tuesday gunmen had shot dead at least five polio vaccinators and injured several others in separate attacks in eastern Nangarhar province. Afghanistan and its neighbor Pakistan are the only two countries in the world where the crippling polio disease remains endemic.
By Radio Free Afghanistan May 22, 2021 The death toll from bombings outside a high school in the Afghan capital has risen to 100 dead and 160 wounded, says the office of Sarwar Danish, Afghanistan’s second vice president. Three powerful bombs detonated outside the Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school in Kabul on May 8 as students, many of them
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
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 8, 2021 A blast near a school in the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed at least 25 people and wounded more than 50 others, authorities said. Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said that the blast occurred at 4.27 p.m. local time on May 8, outside Syed Al-Shahda school, in the
Ariana: At least seven people were killed by unknown armed men after Tarawih prayers in northern Baghlan province, sources said Friday. Baghlan police told Ariana News that the Taliban militants opened fire on worshipers outside a mosque in the Khinjan district of the province on Thursday evening. Click here to read more (external link). Related
Ariana: The Ministry of Education (MoE), which is expected to supply children with the necessary books has not sent enough to schools, said some students, adding that they have been forced to purchase the required books on the black market. Click here to read more (external link).