Ayaz Gul VOA NEWS June 27, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Afghan officials said Saturday a roadside bomb blast in Kabul has killed two members of the national human rights monitoring group. The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said its female donor coordinator, 24-year-old Fatima Khalil, and a driver were traveling to their office in the
ANI: About 6,500 Pakistani’s are operating as terrorist ranks in Afghanistan, posing a significant threat to the peace, stability and security of the war-torn country and South Asia region, stated a UN Security Council report. The report released by Analytical Support and Sanctions Monitoring Team, concerning the Taliban and other associated individuals and entities, published
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News June 22, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Afghanistan’s security forces have suffered their bloodiest week so far in the 19-year-old Afghan war. The Afghanistan’s National Security Council said 291 members of Afghan National and Defense Security Forces (ANDSF) were killed and 550 others wounded in multiple Taliban attacks last week. “Taliban carried out
Ayaz Gul VOA NEWS June 21, 2020 ISLAMABAD – The United Nations has accused Taliban insurgents and Afghan government forces of deliberate attacks on the country’s healthcare workers and facilities during the coronavirus outbreak. The pandemic has infected nearly 29,000 Afghans, killing close to 600, although independent experts and even Afghan officials fear the actual
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 18, 2020 Afghan security officials say a mortar shell has exploded inside a religious school in northern Afghanistan, killing at least nine students. “The initial investigation shows that the blast was caused by a mortar that had somehow been carried inside the madrasah,” police spokesman Khalil Asir said on June
By Ayaz Gul VOA News June 17, 2020 ISLAMABAD – Afghan authorities said Wednesday Taliban attacks in the country’s north have killed at least 17 security forces and injured about a dozen more. The violence comes as warring sides in Afghanistan are preparing to meet in Qatar later this month for a preliminary round of peace
By Margaret Besheer VOA News | June 15, 2020 NEW YORK – The United Nations said Monday that for the fifth consecutive year, Afghanistan was the deadliest country on the planet for children. In its annual Children in Armed Conflict report, the U.N. secretary-general reported that more than 3,000 Afghan children were killed in 2019, and
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan June 15, 2020 KABUL — Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has announced that it has decided to cease activities at the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, following a deadly attack at the facility’s maternity wing last month, saying that similar “horrific” attacks may occur there in the future. In a statement on June 15, the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 13, 2020 Afghan officials say at least 17 people have been killed in a string of attacks across the country. There was no claim of responsibility for the series of attacks on June 13. Violence in the country has spiked in recent weeks despite progress toward the launch of direct
DW: The Trump administration has sanctioned International Criminal Court [ICC] employees investigating whether US troops committed war crimes in Afghanistan. The ICC accused the US of trying to “interfere with the rule of law.” “The whole argument of the court being illegal, illegitimate and corrupt obviously is not a new argument,”… “The same argument has