Press TV July 23, 2017 Afghan security forces have launched a major search operation for some 30 villagers still missing two days after a mass kidnapping blamed on the Taliban militants in the country’s troubled south. Zia Durrani, a police spokesman in the southern province of Kandahar, said on Sunday that about 30 people were
VOA News / July 22, 2017 The international aid organization Doctors Without Borders says it has opened an outpatient clinic in northern Afghanistan. The new facility in Kunduz province opened almost two years after a U.S. airstrike demolished the group’s hospital there, killing more than 40 people, including patients and staff members. “We decided to
Press TV July 17, 2017 The United Nations has warned against a sharp rise in civilians casualties amid violence in Afghanistan, saying over 5,000 people were killed or wounded in the war-torn country in the first half of this year. In its mid-year report published on Monday, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA)
Tolo News: At least three civilians were wounded in an explosion in Gardez city in Paktia province on Friday afternoon, local officials confirmed. Paktia police security officer Colonel Nisar Ahmad Abdul Rahimzai the explosion occurred when two suicide bombers riding a motorbike were identified and stopped by police in areas close to Kabul-Gardez road in Gardez
Press TV July 12, 2017 Australian Special Forces are under a secret defense investigation for the unlawful killing of Afghan civilians, according to leaked documents, which provide new details of deadly incidents in southern Afghanistan. Hundreds of pages of secret defense force documents — many marked AUSTEO (Australian Eyes Only) — have been leaked to the Australian Broadcasting
The Sydney Morning Herald: Afghanistan, 2008. A crude rocket fired by insurgents explodes in a cloud of dust and rock near a platoon of Australian commandos. Unsure of the source of the attack, one soldier aims a heavy machine gun at a group of suspected insurgents. In the chaos, a child’s arm is shot off. Click here
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 7, 2017 KUNDUZ — Six Afghan civilians have been wounded in a clash between rival local militia factions in the northern province of Kunduz, a government official said. The clash occurred early on July 7 in Kunduz’s Khanabad district, local administrator Hayatullah Amiri said. Afghanistan has numerous militia that are
Khaama Press: At least fourteen people including women and children were wounded in Taliban mortar attack in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan. According to the local government officials, the incident took place earlier today in the vicinity of Ghani Khel district. The provincial government media office in a statement confirmed the incident and said at least
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan July 5, 2017 Afghan officials say six civilians have been killed by a roadside bomb in the western province of Farah. Mohammad Naser Mehri, a spokesman for Farah’s provincial governor, said the bomb was detonated in the Momin Abad area of the Shiba Koh district on July 4 as the victims
Press TV July 3, 2017 Britain’s Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has called for an immediate investigation into claims by British media about unlawful killings by British special forces in Afghanistan. “Members of Britain’s Special Air Service (SAS) are alleged to have covered up evidence that they killed unarmed Afghan civilians in cold blood and falsified