Xinhua: Fighting between government forces and Taliban militants on a highway in Afghan northern Jauzjan province claimed the lives of three militants on Monday, said deputy to provincial police chief Abdul Hafiz Khashi. Click here to read more (external link).
The Washington Post: Gul Momina says she was only 15 when a man and his wife lured her from her home here in Afghanistan’s capital. They gave her a soda, she recalls. Then she blacked out. When she woke, the teenager says, she found herself locked in a dark room with a muddy dirt floor. For the
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty March 10, 2016 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has criticized Afghanistan’s justice system over the case of a woman beaten to death by a mob last year. In a statement on March 10, HRW said the system had bitterly failed Farkhunda Malikzada when it cut the sentences of the 13 men convicted
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 9, 2016 Authorities in Afghanistan say they’re investigating the circumstances around a disturbing video clip that appears to show police officers taking part in the brutal torture of an alleged terror suspect. The two-minute footage was posted this week by the Pajhwok news agency and shows a group of men,
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan March 7, 2016 Afghanistan’s Supreme Court has confirmed a 20-year prison sentence against a man who falsely accused a woman of burning the Koran, which provoked an angry mob to beat the woman to death near a Muslim shrine in Kabul. The court also confirmed prison sentences ranging from 10 to
Tolo News: Kabul Police rescued two kidnapped children during a special operation on Thursday in Kabul. The operation was carried out in Kotal-e-Khairkhana area of Kabul city to rescue Bahram and Baktash, two children who were kidnapped around one month ago. Two men and a woman were arrested in connection with the kidnappings. Kabul Police Chief, Abdul Rahman
Khaama Press: The Afghan intelligence operatives thwarted a coordinated suicide car bombing plot in the provincial capital of southern Kandahar province. The National Directorate of Security (NDS) said four groups of militants comprised of 26 insurgents were detained by the intelligence operatives in connection to the attack plot. A statement by NDS said the groups were looking
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, Feb. 29 (Xinhua) — Six militants and one civilian were killed as clashes erupted in Dasht-e-Archi district of the northern Kunduz province on Monday, a local official said. “The clash flared up in the wee hours of Monday in Pul-e-Momin area and lasted for a while, leaving six militants and one civilian dead,”
The Mirror: The jihadis were in a training session on the manufacture and use of explosives at a madrasa – a religious seminary – in the village of Mastofi in Ghazni province. An explosion ripped through a bomb making lesson at a Taliban base, killing seven militants.The jihadis were in a training session on the manufacture
1TV: Aminullah, 14,was taken away by a professional kidnapping group nearly two weeks ago in Police District 10 of the city and was being held in a cave in the remote Shakar Dara district, the National Directorate of Security said in a statement. Click here to read more (external link).