New York Times: Despite a global treaty that bans land mines, casualties from those weapons and other unexploded munitions lurking in current and past war zones rose sharply last year to the highest point in a decade, a monitoring group said Tuesday in its annual report. The casualty increase was primarily from the armed conflicts in Afghanistan,
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 22, 2016 An international rights group has urged the Afghan government to develop a “security plan” to better protect the minority Shi’a community during high-profile public events. Human Rights Watch (HRW) made the call in a statement on November 21, a day after a suicide bomber killed at least 30
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 21, 2016 ISLAMABAD — Islamic State has claimed responsibility for Monday’s suicide bombing of a Shi’ite mosque in the Afghan capital that killed at least 32 people and wounded more than 80 others. The bomber entered the crowded Baqir ul Olum Mosque in Kabul during a religious ceremony and detonated the
The Guardian (UK): Islamic State fighters have been pummelled by US airstrikes and receive little local support, but they maintain a small – and seemingly resilient – stronghold in eastern Afghanistan. The fighters are few but unusually brutal, in keeping with the group’s behaviour elsewhere. They may not be an existential threat to the Afghan state
Tolo News: Afghanistan suffered the worst year so far in its war with the Taliban, resulting in nearly 18,000 deaths from the conflict in 2015. As a result it is ranked number two in the world on the terrorism index, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) said in its latest Global Terrorism Index (GTI) report.
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 11, 2016 ISLAMABAD — An attack on a German consulate building in northern Afghanistan late Thursday killed six people and wounded more than 100, mostly civilians, though Germany’s foreign minister on Friday reported consulate staff members were unharmed. Frank-Walter Steinmeier expressed his condolences for victims of the attack, in which a
The Future of Freedom Foundation: The latest massacre of many innocent people by U.S. forces in Afghanistan provides another demonstration as to why it is imperative that the American people stop deferring to the authority of the national security state and demand the immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces from Afghanistan. In a war that has
KABUL, Nov. 6 (Xinhua) — The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) was investigating airstrikes conducted by U.S. forces in northern Afghanistan’s Kunduz province that caused civilian casualties, the mission said in a statement on Sunday. On Thursday, a series of air strikes were carried out in Buz-e-Kandahari area of provincial capital Kunduz city, following
Press TV November 5, 2016 Hundreds of people have taken part in a funeral procession for more than 30 civilians, who were killed in an airstrike carried out by the so-called US-led military alliance near the northern Afghan city of Kunduz. The funeral was held on Friday for the victims of Thursday’s air raid on the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 5, 2016 A roadside bomb killed 11 people and wounded a dozen more on their way to a wedding in the northern Afghan province of Faryab, officials said on November 4. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blast, which killed women and children and wounded the bride, but officials