MOSCOW, July 16 (Sputnik) – A prominent human rights watchdog on Monday denounced the deportations of Afghan asylum seekers at a time when the number of civilian casualties in the conflict-torn country has hit a new record as an “unconscionable” act and a “brazen” breach of international law. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 15, 2018 At least seven people have been killed and 15 others wounded in a suicide bombing in front of a government ministry in the Afghan capital, Kabul, officials said. The explosion on July 15 happened at the Rural Rehabilitation and Development Ministry, police spokesman Hashmat Stanikzai said. There were
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 15, 2018 ISLAMABAD — The United Nations says the conflict in Afghanistan killed nearly 1,700 civilians in the first six months of 2018, the highest number recorded at any comparable time over the last decade. The midyear report on civilian casualties released by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Sunday
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 13, 2018 Afghan officials say government forces have killed at least six civilians in a ground and air operation in the eastern province of Nangarhar Province. Ataullah Khogyani, a spokesman for the provincial government, said the operation in Khogyani district on late July 12 also wounded four other civilians. Ajmal
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 10, 2018 A suicide bombing close to a security checkpoint In the Afghan city of Jalalabad has killed at least 12 people, with the extremist group Islamic State (IS) claiming responsibility for the attack. The dead in the attack on July 10 included at least eight civilians and two security
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
Ayaz Gul VOA News July 1, 2018 ISLAMABAD — Afghan officials say a suicide bomb blast has killed at least 19 people, including at least 10 members of the country’s tiny Hindu and Sikh minority, in the eastern province of Nangarhar. The victims were on their way to the governor’s office in the provincial capital of
McClatchy: Robert Bales, the former Army staff sergeant who killed 16 Afghan civilians, including seven children, will likely ask the president to commute his life sentence once he exhausts his legal appeals for one of the nation’s most notorious war crimes. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV June 22, 2018 Taliban militants in Afghanistan have killed at least 16 police officers and two civilians in the western province of Badghis, officials announced. The Friday report of the casualties came after the militants waged an operation on Thursday to capture eight checkpoints in Badghis. This followed earlier clashes on Wednesday in which
Human Rights Watch: The accounts are both shocking and horribly familiar. Soldiers acting as if they were above the law assault and murder civilians in a barbaric competition to outdo each other. New recruits compelled to prove themselves by killing. The victims are not enemies in battle but the elderly, men with disabilities, a farmer