The Washington Post: The last time Ramzan Ali saw his 9-year-old daughter alive was the day he put her in a van, along with her aunt and five other people from their Afghan village. They were headed for the Pakistani city of Quetta, where the little girl, Shukria, was going to spend time with her ailing
VOA News / December 29, 2015 ISLAMABAD — A suicide blast in Mardan, Pakistan, has left at least 26 people dead and more than 20 others wounded. The blast in the city northwest of Islamabad occurred outside the door of a government office called the National Database and Registration Authority or NADRA, which is responsible
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 28, 2015 Afghan officials say two unidentified gunmen have shot and killed a female polio campaigner and seriously wounded her teenage granddaughter in the southern city of Kandahar. No group claimed responsibility for the attack that took place in the morning of December 28. The gunmen fled the scene, but
VOA News / December 28, 2015 Officials in Afghanistan say a suicide bomber struck on a road near Kabul’s airport Monday, killing at least one person and wounding several others. The French news agency reports a Taliban spokesman says the militants were responsible for the attack on a foreign forces convoy. The attack comes one
KABUL, Dec. 27 (Xinhua) — Fighting in militancy-plagued Afghanistan has claimed 19 lives including seven civilians over the past two days, officials said Sunday. In the latest violent incident, three people including two police constables and a civilian lost their lives as a bomb went off in the former Taliban stronghold of Helmand province on
Khaama Press: Ministry of Interior says the explosion in a mosque in northern Baghlan province that left at least 10 worshipers wounded was the work of Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV December 26, 2015 A bomb explosion has ripped through a mosque in Afghanistan’s northern province of Baghlan, leaving more than a dozen people injured. The attack took place as people gathered for Friday prayers in the Ghorbandi area of the Puli Khumri district in Baghlan some 230 km (142 miles) north of the capital, Kabul. Mohammad
Antiwar.com: There’s a bipartisan effort to justify the killing of civilians in the “war on terrorism.” Click here to read more (external link).
Just Security: The US now needs to work especially hard to fulfill UNAMA’s recommendations to ensure its investigation is independent, impartial, prompt, transparent, and effective… Click here to read more (external link).
Common Dreams: There is “strong” evidence that the U.S. military attack on a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan two months ago constituted a criminal act, and should be investigated as such, Human Rights Watch said Monday in a letter to Defense Secretary Ashton Carter. Click here to read more (external link).