By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan January 4, 2020 An explosion during the morning rush hour in the northern Afghan province of Balkh has killed a local resident and wounded at least two others, police said, adding the victims were civilians. The blast was caused by an improvised explosive device attached to a vehicle, Balkh police
Ariana: Ministry of Interior Affairs stated in a report posted on its official Facebook page, stating that, “some 2219 civilians were killed and 5172 injured in Taliban attacks.” The MOIA called these attacks ‘war crimes’ and stressed that they are committed to providing security for civilians. Click here to read more (external link).
USA Today: U.S. military officials publicly touted the August 22, 2008, Azizabad raid – Operation Commando Riot – as a victory. A high-value Taliban target had been killed; the collateral damage was minimal; the village was grateful. None of it was true. The Taliban commander escaped. Dozens of civilians were dead in the rubble, including
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 30, 2019 The Taliban announced Monday it does not intend to stop fighting in Afghanistan, rejecting as “false and baseless” reports the insurgent group is ready to declare a temporary cease-fire in a bid to seal a peace deal with the United States. The announcement comes on a day when
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 26, 2019 ISLAMABAD – The United Nations says the war in Afghanistan has killed or injured more than 100,000 civilians in the past ten years, urging all warring sides to take “genuine and concrete” steps toward ending the 18-year-old hostilities. The announcement comes as Taliban insurgents in a pre-dawn attack
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 17, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Two separate bomb explosions in Afghanistan Tuesday killed at least 10 civilians, including children, and injured 18 others. The violence comes as a new United Nations report says that even by Afghanistan’s grim standards, 2019 has been particularly deadly for children and described the country as
AFP: Gholam Mahaiuddin sighs softly as he thinks of his 14-year-old son, who was killed in the spring by a bomb dropped last century in the hills of Bamiyan province in central Afghanistan. “We knew the mountain was dangerous,” said Mahaiuddin, who found his son’s remains after he didn’t come home one day. “We were aware
Salon: If it disturbs us that the U.S. public was misled, shouldn’t we be even more disturbed by the way that the Afghans themselves were lied to? If the lies to the U.S. public are disturbing, wouldn’t the ones to Afghans be even more so? And, how is it that the cost to the U.S.
Ayaz Gul VOA News December 14, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Officials in Afghanistan said Saturday Taliban infiltrators have killed at least 25 government security forces in the eastern volatile Ghazni province. The overnight insider attack happened in the Qarabagh district where a group of seven security personnel Friday night turned their guns on fellow soldiers at
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan December 13, 2019 Ten people, including four women and a child, were killed in a roadside bomb explosion in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on December 13. The occurred in the volatile district of Jaghatu in Ghazni province. All the victims of the blast were civilians, said Aref Noori, a spokesman for