Press TV March 19, 2016 Human rights campaigners have denounced the US military’s decision not to file criminal charges against officers involved in a disastrous bombing raid on a hospital in Afghanistan, saying it was an insult to the victims. US military officials said Thursday that more than a dozen military personnel were punished over
VOA News Ayaz Gul March 18, 2016 ISLAMABAD—The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Friday that 2015 had increased violations of humanitarian law and principles by all sides to the conflict in Afghanistan, undermining delivery of much needed assistance to the war victims. The violations hampered efforts to direct humanitarian activities in a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 18, 2016 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has strongly criticized U.S. “punishments” handed to officers involved in a deadly bombing raid on an Afghan hospital last year. The U.S. military has disciplined at least 10 soldiers for mistakes that led to the bombing of a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in
Antiwar.com: US defense officials say that around a dozen US troops were “disciplined” over last year’s US attack on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, an attack which killed 42 civilians. Officials declined to identify any of the troops, except to say it included both officers and enlisted personnel, and no generals. No criminal
Press TV March 15, 2016 Afghanistan says more than 600 civilians have been killed over the past six months at the hands of Daesh terrorists, who are trying to strengthen their foothold in the militancy-riddled country. The Afghan Defense Ministry released the figure in a report on Tuesday and said most of the victims were young
Press TV March 8, 2016 The White House will for the first time release the death toll from US terror drone strikes conducted since 2009, officials say. The figures will be disclosed in a review of the US airstrikes worldwide outside of active war zones, Lisa Monaco, President Barack Obama’s top homeland security adviser, said
Khaama Press: The incident took place in Shindand district around 12:00 pm local time after a civilian vehicle struck an Improvised Explosive Device (IED). No group including the Taliban militants has so far claimed responsibility behind the incident. Click here to read more (external link). Related Security News Steep rise in Afghan army casualties, 26 soldiers martyred
VOA News Ayaz Gul March 7, 2016 ISLAMABAD – A Taliban suicide bomber has blown himself up outside a local court compound in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 13 people and wounding at least 36 more.Authorities say police personnel, women and children were among those killed and wounded in the attack Monday in the town of
McClatchy: U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, convicted of masterminding the murders of three Afghan civilians in 2010, asked a military appeals court in Virginia on Friday to consider new evidence in his case that could lead to a new trial. Gibbs, a former soldier at Washington state’s Joint Base Lewis-McChord, is serving a life sentence at
KABUL, March 3 (Xinhua) — A bloody conflict between security forces and Taliban militants have claimed the lives of 10 armed insurgents in the northern Jauzjan province, while a bomb blast attributed to the Taliban outfit injured 24 civilians in the neighboring Balkh province on Thursday, officials said. “Ten Taliban fighters have been killed and