TIRIN KOT, Afghanistan, May 11 (Xinhua) — A local leader had been killed in a drive-by shooting in Afghanistan’s southern province of Uruzgan, a local official said on Wednesday. “Two armed men riding a motorcycle opened fire on Sayyed Nazar in Saffaid Khar locality in provincial capital Tirin Kot city, killing him on the spot.
Press TV May 10, 2016 Fifteen Afghan police were killed in an attack by the Taliban militants on two checkpoints close to Afghanistan’s southern city of Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province Tuesday. A senior security official of Helmand released the number of fatalities, saying, “The situation is very critical near” the city. Speaking on condition
MAIMANA, Afghanistan, May 9 (Xinhua) — A bicycle bomb that rocked Faryab’s provincial capital Maimana city 425 km northwest of Kabul on Monday killing two people and injuring eight others, a local official said. “Terrorists planted explosive device on a bicycle and detonated it by remote controller next to a police van at a market
globalpost: It was 2:09 a.m. in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on October 3, 2015, when Lajos Jecs was woken from his sleep by a loud explosion. What he was hearing was the first in a series of bombs a US plane was dropping on the hospital he was working at. Click here to read more (external link).
Counter Punch: No question the mounting Afghan death toll and the bombing of hospitals and civilian infrastructure ought to infuriate the few remaining antiwar activists out there; but the toll the Afghanistan war is having on the environment should also force nature lovers into the streets in protest. Natural habitat in Afghanistan has endured decades of struggle, and the War on
Press TV May 7, 2016 At least four children have lost their lives and another has sustained injuries in a powerful bomb explosion in a rural area in Afghanistan’s southern province of Zabul. Local administrative chief Wazir Mohammad Jawadi said the blast took place in the Shahjoy district of the province, which is situated 340
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 5, 2016 An Afghan official says a roadside bombing has killed five civilians and wounded five others in a remote northwestern province. Local police said on May 5 that the explosion took place in the district of Qadis in Badghis Province. Police said a van carrying civilians hit the roadside bomb
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 4, 2016 The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution demanding that all parties to conflicts protect medical facilities and staff who are treating the wounded and sick. The resolution, which comes amid an upsurge in deadly attacks on hospitals in Syria, Afghanistan, and other conflict areas, calls on
Press TV May 2, 2016 The survivors of a fatal US airstrike on a hospital have called for those responsible to stand trial, dismissing Pentagon’s recent probe that the bombardment did not amount to a war crime. “This report is an absolute insult to the victims of MSF hospital in Kunduz,” said Esmatullah Esmat, who
Michael Hughes: U.S. servicemen responsible for an attack on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Afghanistan are not guilty of war crimes because they did not mean to kill more than 40 patients and staff, or so says the Pentagon, an argument that does not sit well with physicians, survivors and victims’ families. Many are