Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 31, 2019 Human Rights Watch (HRW) says CIA-backed Afghan paramilitary forces have “committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability” — including extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, and attacks on health-care facilities. In its report, released on October 31, HRW called on the Afghan government to immediately disband all pro-government
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News October 31, 2019 ISLAMABAD – Attacks carried out by Taliban and other insurgent groups in Afghanistan were twice as effective in the third quarter of 2019 than they were earlier in the year, according to a leading oversight authority on Afghanistan that reports to the United States Congress. “Roughly half of
By RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan October 28, 2019 Afghan and Pakistani security forces have clashed along the countries’ disputed border, leaving at least three civilians dead, Afghan officials said. A firefight broke out in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar on October 27 and continued the following morning, the officials said. Sher Zamin Khan, a member
Tolo News: At least two civilians—one of whom was a child–and three National Directorate of Security members were killed in a suicide attack on an NDS forces’ convoy in Jalalabad, a spokesman for the provincial governor, Attaullah Khogyani confirmed. The attack took place at approximately 2 pm in Jalalabad’s PD4 area after a suicide bomber detonated
The New York Post: Alexander plays the leader of a rogue group who murder three civilians during the war in Afghanistan and lie about the circumstances. It’s a true story that happened in 2009 and ’10. Names are changed, and Skarsgård is called Sergeant Deeks. Click here to read more (external link).
MIT Technology Review: America’s longest war has turned Afghanistan into an unwilling testing ground for warfare technology. “I was 16 when I saw someone die from a drone strike,” said Naimatullah. “Since then I’ve cleaned up so many bodies, their blood, their brains. My heart is stone now, because it’s always innocent people dying.” Click here to
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 19, 2019 Funerals were held in eastern Afghanistan on October 19 for victims of a bombing a day earlier at a mosque that killed at least 69 people during Friday Prayers. The mosque in the village of Chodari in Nangarhar Province was full of worshippers at the time of the
Press TV October 18, 2019 At least 62 worshippers have been killed and more than 100 injured in bomb explosions at a mosque in eastern Afghanistan during Friday prayers. The spokesman for Nangarhar’s provincial governor, Attaullah Khogyani, said there were multiple blasts from explosives placed inside the mosque in the Jawdara area of Haska Mena
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 17, 2019 The United Nations said that an “unprecedented” number of civilians were killed or wounded in Afghanistan from July to September, calling the violence “totally unacceptable.” The UN said in a report on October 17 that the 1,174 deaths and 3,139 injured amount to a 42 percent increase over
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 16, 2019 At least three police officers were killed and about 36 people, including 20 children, were wounded when a vehicle bomb exploded near a police station in eastern Afghanistan on October 16. The explosion near the police headquarters in the Alishang district of Laghman Province also partially destroyed a