Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 20, 2018 Members of the Shi’ite minorities in Afghanistan and Pakistan have commemorated Ashura, the holiest celebration in their religious calendar, amid heightened security measures against possible sectarian attacks. The festival making the seventh-century killing of Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, this year fell on September 20.
HRW: Thousands of Afghan civilians are losing their lives, their loved ones, or suffering devastating injuries in bombings, gunbattles, and other violence. Since January, the United Nations documented the highest number of civilian deaths in Afghanistan since it started keeping track in 2009. At least 1,692 civilians died in the first six month of 2018 and
Al Jazeera: Afghan security personnel and civilians targeted in night-time attacks across the country – At least 37 people have been killed in night-time attacks across four provinces of Afghanistan, officials said. Twenty-nine police officers and members of the Afghan national army were killed in Taliban attacks in the western province of Farah, the head of the
Frud Bezhan Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty September 12, 2018 Sayed Ali Rezwan was lifting dumbbells when an explosion ripped through Kabul’s Maiwand sports club, where scores of young wrestlers were in the middle of a training session. The blast threw 23-year-old Rezwan against a wall. Wounded and covered in dust, he stumbled through the debris
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 12, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Officials in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province say the death toll from Tuesday’s suicide bombing has risen to 68 people, up from the previous figure of 32. The attack happened in the remote Mohmand Dara district as residents were staging a protest in the Daka village to demand
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 11, 2018 ISLAMABAD — A suicide blast Tuesday in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province killed at least 25 people and wounded about 60 others. A provincial government spokesman, Attaullah Khogyani, told VOA the bombing happened in the remote Mohmand Dara district. He anticipated the casualty toll to rise. Khogyani said the victims
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 10, 2018 KABUL – The Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near a procession in the Afghan capital commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader, killing at least seven people. In the September 9 attack, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself, killing
Ottawa Citizen: Australia is investigating recent accusations from some special forces troops that a group of rogue soldiers in the Special Air Service Regiment executed an elderly Afghan prisoner and kept a running tally of the number of Afghans they killed. Members of Australian special forces are also alleged to have kept the prosthetic led of
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan September 9, 2018 KABUL — A suicide bomber on a motorcycle has blown himself up near a procession in the Afghan capital commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader, killing at least seven people, officials say. Kabul police spokesman Hashmat Stanekzai told RFE/RL that more than 20 people were wounded
Ayaz Gul VOA News September 6, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan mourned Thursday the death of at least 26 civilians, including sportsmen, rescue workers and journalists, in an overnight double suicide bombing in Kabul. Islamic State, via its so-called Amaq News Agency, claimed responsibility for the attack. The violence occurred Wednesday night in the western Dashti-i-Barchi suburb