KABUL, April 12 (Xinhua) — Civilians often pay high prices in the war-zones, particularly in militancy-plagued Afghanistan as considerable number of the victims of three suicide bombings elsewhere in the country over the past seven days were civilians, according to officials. Since beginning this month, three suicide bombings have rocked Parwan, Kandahar and the eastern
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 11, 2016 At least 12 recruits in the Afghan National Army have been killed and dozens of people wounded by a Taliban suicide bomber who attacked the recruits’ bus near the eastern city of Jalalabad. Defense Ministry spokesman Dawlat Waziri confirmed the death toll in the April 11 suicide
VOA News April 11, 2016 U.S. forces in Afghanistan are investigating a series of airstrikes last week that some locals say killed more than one dozen civilians. Defense Department spokesman Lieutenant Colonel James B. Brindle said an investigation is underway. Initial reports said an airstrike near the town of Nematabad killed a local elder, Hajji
Khaama Press: Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned a drone strike in eastern Paktika province of Afghanistan, claiming that civilians were killed in the raid. According to a statement released by the Office of the Former President, the drone strike by US forces in Barmal district left a number of civilians dead. The statement further added that the
Press TV April 8, 2016 US airstrikes in Afghan province of Paktika have killed at least 17 civilians, local officials and elders say, rejecting official American and Afghan claims that only militants had been killed. They were killed during three drone strikes carried out by the US in the area of Nematabad on Wednesday, former Afghan senator Hajji Muhammad Hasan
PUL-E-KHUMRI, Afghanistan, April 6 (Xinhua) — Five militants have been killed and 13 others injured as clash flared up in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan, provincial governor Abdul Satar Bariz said Wednesday. Two security personnel have also been killed, the official confirmed. The clash, according to the official, erupted Tuesday afternoon after the armed
VOA News Ayaz Gul April 5, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Officials in Afghanistan say that a suicide blast in the central Parwan province Tuesday killed at least six people and wounded at least 22 others. Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Seddiqi confirmed the attack in the Siah Gerd district, saying almost all the victims were civilians, including women. He
JALALABAD, Afghanistan, April 4 (Xinhua) — Two people, including a police, were killed and 10 others including some civilians sustained injuries as blast rocked Khiwa district in the eastern Nangarhar province on Monday, provincial police spokesman Hazrat Hussain Mashriqwal said.
TeleSur: Afghanistan is the country most bombed by drones in the world. Nevertheless, it seems that the world is silent on its devastation. The vehicles were completely destroyed. So, too, was the body of one of the passengers, four-year-old Amir. In April 2013, a U.S. drone strike killed the child in Kunar, one of Afghanistan’s eastern provinces,
Antiwar.com: Pentagon officials promised an investigation into an incident today in which a US soldier in a watchtower opened fire on an Afghan boy, shooting and killing him outside the Bagram airfield in Parwan Province. Click here for more (external link).