Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 30, 2016 Afghan officials say a TV journalist has been shot dead by unknown assailants in eastern Nangarhar Province. Haji Mohammad Zubair Khaksar, who was a Nangarhar correspondent for Afghanistan’s national TV and Radio network, was gunned down in Surkhrod district, the office of the provincial governor said on January
AOPNEWS | January 28, 2016 Khost: One civilian and five others were wounded when an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) went off inside a drug store in the provincial capital around midday today. Baghlan: A teenage girl was injured after three rockets were fired by militants into a residential area of Pul-e Khumri. Jowzjan: Dozens of
The National (UAE): The human cost of the Afghan war has been devastating. The United Nations estimates that at least 20,000 Afghan civilians have been killed since 2001 and violence is worsening across the country. Click here to read more (external link).
Common Dreams: U.S. airstrikes carried out in northeastern Afghanistan between January 2012 and February 2013 (as part of Operation Haymaker), for example, killed more than 200 people, only 35 of whom were the intended targets. During one five-month period of the operation, according to the documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in airstrikes were
Common Dreams: Fifty-nine-year-old Mary Anne Grady Flores will serve six months for photographing a protest of an airfield in upstate New York where drone pilots are trained and from where missions are carried out. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV January 21, 2016 At least three people have been killed when a rocket fired from Afghanistan hit an area in a volatile Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border. According to officials, the rocket struck a shop in Angoor Adda Bazaar in the South Waziristan tribal district on Thursday. The area is one
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 21, 2016 ISLAMABAD—A deadly Taliban suicide bombing against Afghanistan’s leading private media group, Tolo News, sparked strong domestic and international outrage and condemnation as an assault on freedom of speech. The bombing happened in a western part of Kabul Wednesday evening, when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into
VOA News Ayaz Gul January 20, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Afghan officials say a suicide car bomb attack near the Russian Embassy in the capital Kabul has killed at least four people, including three women. Health ministry director Mohammad Ismail Kawasi told VOA at least 28 other people were wounded in the blast Wednesday. No one has claimed
KABUL, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) — At least two people were injured after militants fired two rockets towards Afghan capital of Kabul on Sunday night, sources said. The rockets struck near Italian Embassy, injuring two security guards, a security source told Xinhua anonymously. The rockets landed in Shashdarak, a locality which also homes to several diplomatic
VOA News / January 17, 2016 Officials in eastern Afghanistan say a suicide bomber has killed at least 13 people and wounded 14. A spokesman for the Nangarhar provincial government said the bomber detonated his device Sunday morning in Jalalabad at the residential compound of Obaiduallah Shinwari, a prominent member of Nangarhar’s provincial council. Shinwari