Al Jazeera: Campaigners raise concerns against The Hague-based court’s plan to exclude US forces from war crimes investigation. The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision last year to launch an investigation into alleged war crimes had raised hopes that grave atrocities committed during decades of conflict in Afghanistan would not be swept under the rug. Click
By Abubakar Siddique Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 4, 2021 During its 20-year insurgency, the Taliban employed suicide bombers as a lethal tool to kill foreign and Afghan government troops and terrorize the civilian population. Even now, as the Taliban attempts to transform from an insurgency into a government, its contingent of trained suicide bombers
AP: An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and it doesn’t recommend any disciplinary action, The Associated Press has learned. Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 2, 2021 ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban say militants linked to a regional affiliate of Islamic State, known as Islamic State-Khorasan Province, carried out Tuesday’s assault on the country’s main military hospital in Kabul. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said the raid on the capital’s Sardar Mohammad Dawood Khan hospital in Wazir Akbar
8am: Local sources in Nangarhar province confirmed that three people, including a cleric, have been killed in three separate incidents in the provincial capital. It is worth noting that after the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the number of criminal incidents and suspected serial killings has increased unprecedently in the eastern province of Nangarhar.
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 2, 2021 ISLAMABAD — A group of gunmen, reportedly including suicide bombers, assaulted Afghanistan’s main military hospital in Kabul Tuesday, killing at least 15 people and wounding many more. A Taliban security official confirmed the casualties on condition of anonymity. A spokesman for the Taliban government said the assault began with
#AFG “At least 2 civilians were murdered by Taliban soldiers and at least 8 civilians were wounded by Taliban soldiers. Taliban soldiers opened fire on a wedding party because villagers were playing music in Sarkhroad district in Ningarhar.” Residents in SarkhRoad tells me. pic.twitter.com/YqbPf8PtBn — BILAL SARWARY (@bsarwary) October 30, 2021
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 25, 2021 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that the attacks against Afghanistan’s Shi’ite minority perpetrated by an affiliate of the Islamic State group amount to crimes against humanity. Islamic State-Khorasan Province (IS-K) has claimed responsibility for some of the worst recent attacks in Afghanistan, including suicide bombings among Shi’ite
By Amos Chapple Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 22, 2021 Locals say a protest that took place in Kabul on October 21 shows the increasing desperation of Afghans women, whose freedoms have been stripped away by the Taliban since the hard-line Islamists seized power on August 15. Photographs taken by several news agencies on October 21
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 22, 2021 Human Rights Watch (HRW) accuses the Taliban of forcibly displacing hundreds of families across Afghanistan, mainly as a form of “collective punishment” against ethnic Shi’ite Hazaras and people associated with the former government. Since the hard-line Sunni group came to power in August, the Taliban has ordered Hazaras