Japan Times: President Ashraf Ghani has ordered a “thorough investigation” into institutionalized sexual abuse of children by police, after it was revealed the Taliban are using child sex slaves to launch deadly insider attacks. There has been international condemnation of pedophilic “bacha bazi” — literally “boy play” — which has been exploited by the Taliban to mount
Press TV June 27, 2016 Nearly two dozen people have been killed in a fresh US drone strike in a restive district in northern Afghanistan, local sources say. Provincial Afghan officials said on Monday that the strike in northern Kunduz province killed seven civilians who were being held by the Taliban militant group. Sources say
TRINKOT, Afghanistan, June 27 (Xinhua) — Unknown armed men gunned down a former chief of government-backed peace body, the High Peace Council (HPC), in Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province on Sunday, spokesman for provincial government Dost Mohammad Nayab said Monday. “The former HPC chief in Uruzgan province Abdul Baqi was in a shop in the provincial
Tolo News: Up to 45,000 Madrasas in Pakistan continue to train, fund and send terrorists to fight against Afghanistan, the The Ministry of Defense (MoD) said on Sunday. According to the MoD, terrorists currently fighting the Afghan security forces are fostered in the Pakistani Madrasas. The terrorists are educated and equipped and then dispatched to Afghanistan to
VOA News June 26, 2016 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD — Officials in eastern Afghanistan say security forces have killed more than 135 Islamic State (IS) militants, including top commanders, and wounded many more in days of ground and air raids near the border with Pakistan. The clashes in Nangarhar province’s Kot district subsided on Sunday, but search
VOA News June 25, 2016 Ayaz Gul ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — Afghanistan’s Taliban said Saturday that it would strongly retaliate for the resumption of U.S. airstrikes against the insurgent group, and it rejected assertions that bombing operations ever paused. The U.S. military began anti-Taliban air raids in the last week, but it has declined to provide details.
Press TV June 25, 2016 Terrorists affiliated with the Daesh Takfiri group have kidnapped at least 30 people, including women, during an attack in Afghanistan’s troubled eastern province of Nangarhar. Afghanistan’s Khaama news service on Saturday quoted Attaullah Khogyani, the spokesman for Nangarhar, as saying that the terrorists launched coordinated attacks against local police checkpoints
VOA News Masood Farivar June 25, 2016 WASHINGTON—Three former U.S. envoys to Afghanistan called on the Obama administration this week not to cut U.S. troop levels in that country next year, even as the White House indicated that it remains committed to doing just that. Dan Feldman, James Dobbins and Marc Grossman all served as
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty June 25, 2016 The U.S. military has carried out its first air strikes against Taliban targets in Afghanistan since President Barack Obama authorized limited offensive operations against the insurgency earlier this month. Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said on June 24 that the strikes were in southern Afghanistan and no U.S. forces
VOA News Ayaz Gul June 24, 2016 ISLAMABAD—Fierce fighting has erupted in eastern Afghanistan after militants linked to Islamic State staged coordinated overnight attacks on Afghan security forces’ outposts and civilian areas, officials said Friday. The clashes in the district of Kot in Nangahar province continued into the morning, leaving at least 30 IS militants