By Rahim Gul Sarwan, Roshan Noorzai VOA News / June 3, 2021 The withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from Afghanistan has made many Afghans fearful of the Taliban’s return to power, prompting the country’s last remaining Jew to make plans to leave as soon as possible. “God willing, I cannot say seven to eight months, but
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 3, 2021 Afghan police say a mine attached to a minibus in Kabul has exploded, killing four people. Kabul police spokesman Ferdous Farmarz said the blast on June 3 injured several others, including a child. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack. Both Taliban and the Islamic State militants
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 3, 2021 The U.S. military says air and ground operations it conducted in Afghanistan last year unintentionally killed 20 civilians. The deaths are among an estimated 23 civilians killed in U.S. operations in war zones in 2020, according to an annual report on civilian casualties submitted to Congress. The U.S. Department of
Radio Free Afghanistan June 2, 2021 At least 10 civilians have been killed in two blasts in the western part of Kabul, Afghan security officials said, amid an uptick in violence across Afghanistan since the start of the international military withdrawal. Another 14 people were wounded in the separate explosions that targeted two minibuses, Kabul
1TV: Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has asked International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to investigate murders of journalists and media workers in Afghanistan since March 2020, involving 11 deaths. It said that such murders could be regarded as war crimes. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 29, 2021 Officials in Afghanistan say at least four people were killed and 11 injured by a roadside-bomb blast in the northern province of Kapisa. Interior Ministry spokesman Tariq Arian said the May 29 blast targeted a minivan full of university lecturers and students that was traveling to Al-Beroni University
Afghan mixed martial arts champ Hussain Bakhsh Safari plans to auction some of his medals to raise cash for the families of students killed in attacks in Kabul and Logar Province.
By Radio Free Afghanistan May 22, 2021 The death toll from bombings outside a high school in the Afghan capital has risen to 100 dead and 160 wounded, says the office of Sarwar Danish, Afghanistan’s second vice president. Three powerful bombs detonated outside the Sayed Ul-Shuhada high school in Kabul on May 8 as students, many of them
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 20, 2021 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Taliban insurgents have captured a district in eastern Afghanistan and negotiated a temporary truce with government forces in another, as U.S.-led foreign troops continue to withdraw from the country. Separately, a roadside bomb blast early Thursday killed at least nine civilians, including women and children,
Ayaz Gul VOA News May 16, 2021 ISLAMABAD – Fighting between government security forces and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan resumed in the early hours of Sunday, ending a three-day cease-fire declared by the adversaries to mark Islamic Eid al-Fitr festival. The Afghan army confirmed its forces started “offensive, clearing and counterterrorism” operations in districts close