Press TV June 6, 2017 Afghanistan’s government is holding a multi-nation peace conference in the capital, Kabul, which remains on lockdown in the wake of a fatal Daesh bombing last week. The event, dubbed the Kabul Process, opened on Tuesday with the presence of senior diplomats from about two dozen countries and organizations, including Iran, India,
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan June 5, 2017 Afghan Foreign Minister Salahuddin Rabbani has called for the dismissal of the country’s top security chiefs after a wave of deadly attacks in the capital, Kabul. Rabbani, speaking at a press conference in Kabul on June 5, said the attacks in the past week that killed or wounded
RT: Sixteen years after ‘Operation Enduring Freedom’ first kicked off, Afghanistan, much like Libya and Iraq, the sites of other US-led ‘interventions,’ is in flames. The string of violence in this Central Asian hotspot of late is breathtaking: On Wednesday, a truck bomb detonated near the German Embassy in Kabul and killed nearly 100 people. On
VOA News / June 4, 2017 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban has stormed a key northern district as the turmoil-hit nation reeled from last week’s deadly suicide bombings with demands growing for the national unity government to quit for failing to provide security. Insurgents assaulted Imam Sahib early Sunday and are said to be moving
Salon.com: Blackwater founder Erik Prince has a vision for profiting off Afghanistan that President Trump might just love. Prince’s plan to fund occupations by pillage would otherwise be simply an insane notion howled from the wilderness of policy thought were it not for Prince’s proximity to the president and Trump’s repeated assertion that the U.S. should have
Daily Caller: The Taliban released a video of its forces proudly parading the streets of Waghaz, Afghanistan after taking it last month, but it is only the most recent example of the group’s brazen celebrations. The video, entitled the “Conquest of Waghaz,” was released Thursday on the Taliban propaganda website Voice of Jihad. It depicts Taliban fighters
VOA News / June 3, 2017 At least 10 people were killed Saturday in Kabul when three explosions hit the funeral of a senator’s son who was killed during protests Friday in Afghanistan’s capital city. Several government officials and members of parliament, including Afghan chief executive Abdullah Abdullah, were in attendance at the funeral for
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 3, 2017 Fears for Western hostages being held by the Taliban arose on June 2 after the Taliban threatened retaliation if the Afghan government executes Taliban prisoners in revenge for this week’s devastating truck bombing in Kabul. Media have reported that President Ashraf Ghani has signed orders to execute 11
Michael Hughes: There is little mystery over who is responsible for this week’s terrorist attack in Kabul, which Afghan intelligence officials have blamed on their Pakistani counterparts. The true dilemma lies in figuring out what is driving Pakistan’s calculus this time. The strategic depth doctrine is always at play which calls for “keeping the pot boiling”
Press TV June 2, 2017 Afghan riot police have reportedly shot dead eight protesters amid clashes during an anti-government demonstration in Kabul two days after a huge truck bomb claimed 90 lives in a high security diplomatic area in the heart of the capital. Some 1,000 demonstrators marched on Friday towards the site of Wednesday’s bombing