Khaama: Australia has yet to pay compensation to Afghan victims under a scheme established after a military inquiry identified credible information of unlawful killings and mistreatment by Australian special forces. In an investigation published on October 17, The Saturday Paper reported that more than 100 claims had been submitted, but dozens were deemed ineligible or
Ariana: The UK Ministry of Defence identified material suggesting that British service personnel may have committed “serious offences” in Afghanistan, including possible murder, manslaughter and grievous bodily harm, a High Court hearing in London was told. Click here to read more (external link). More He confessed to an Afghanistan war murder. The U.S. military promptly
Khaama: In a statement marking 25 years since the U.S.-led war began on October 7, 2001, HRW said successive governments have failed to provide adequate accountability or redress for Afghans subjected to abuses by foreign forces. The organization said many people detained by U.S. forces were held for months or years without being charged with
Khaama: The Russian Embassy in Kabul said Saturday that it was concerned about the continuation of the military confrontation between the two neighboring countries. The statement came after Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan’s Kunar and Helmand provinces earlier this week. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) confirmed that at least 10 civilians were killed
By Daud Khattak and RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi October 1, 2026 Pakistan carried out a round of air strikes on October 1 on two Afghan provinces near the border based on “credible evidence” of militant activity in the area. Following the strikes on the Kunar and Helmand provinces, Pakistan authorities claimed that 22 militants had been
Ariana: Britain’s Ministry of Defence has identified 97 million previously undisclosed documents, some of which could be relevant to an inquiry into allegations that British special forces unlawfully killed people in Afghanistan. The discovery could further delay the inquiry, which was established in 2023 and had initially aimed to produce an interim report within 18
Amu: Pakistani fighter jets struck parts of the eastern provinces of Kunar and Paktika early Monday, killing three civilians, including a woman, according to Taliban spokesman, in the first publicly reported Pakistani airstrikes inside Afghanistan in nearly three months. The Taliban’s Information and Culture Department in Kunar confirmed the strike on Noorgal, saying a residential
Afghanistan International: The death toll from a suicide bombing and shooting by armed attackers in Kohat, Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has risen to at least 31, with more than 100 injured. Local police say at least 16 of those killed were officers. On Saturday, 19 September, the Taliban Foreign Ministry issued a statement strongly condemning
Khaama: More than 40,000 people were killed and over 77,000 injured during Afghanistan’s armed conflict between 2009 and 2021, according to a new report by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA), which documents the long-term human cost of two decades of war. The period between 2009 and 2021 was the deadliest phase of
Amu: Local sources in Badakhshan told Amu that a civilian was killed in an armed clash between two Taliban officials that they said began over a dispute about fishing. Click here to read more (external link).