Ayaz Gul VOA News April 22, 2020 ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN – Clashes between government forces and Taliban insurgents have killed about 60 combatants on both sides, officials in Afghanistan said Wednesday. In a major pre-dawn attack, the Taliban raided army and police outposts in two districts of the northern Sar-e-Pul Province. Provincial governor Abdul Qadir Ashna
RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan April 16, 2020 Afghanistan’s Defense Ministry says the Taliban has killed nine government soldiers in an overnight attack on an army post in the Charkh District of Logar Province, in the eastern part of the country. Fawad Aman, a spokesman at the ministry, told RFE/RL that Taliban the Taliban had suffered
Tolo News: An estimated $2 billion in government revenue has been lost due to inactivity from a copper mine–the country’s largest–in the last 10 years, TOLOnews findings reveal, based on projections of the mine’s worth since a deal was made between the Afghan government and a Chinese company in May 2008. Click here to read
Tolo News: The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in a report on Tuesday claimed confirmation of the involvement of several teachers and school officials in the sexual abuse of children in Logar province. According to the Human Rights Commission, “credible evidence” shows that a number of students who became the victims of sexual abuse
Tolo News: At least 18 suspects were identified and seven of them were arrested over their alleged involvement in the sexual abuse of children and youths in Logar province, the Attorney General’s Office said on Saturday. This comes a day after reports surfaced in the media that Mohammad Mussa Mahmoudi, the head of Logar’s civil society,
Tolo News: A probe team by the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has found evidence to support allegations of sex abuse of children and teenagers at some schools in Logar province, according to a member of the rights organization. The commission plans to keep the details secret until the probe team completes its investigation. The
Tolo News: Logar residents claimed that four children were killed in a mortar attack in Baraki Barak district of the province on Tuesday afternoon. “The mortar attack came from the (foreign forces) camp,” a Logar resident said. “There is no Taliban in that area. The government has checkpoints there.” Click here to read more (external link).
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 25, 2019 ISLAMABAD – An international rights group on Monday demanded authorities in Afghanistan immediately release two local human rights defenders who exposed an alleged pedophile ring involved in the abuse of hundreds of school children. In a statement, Amnesty International accused Afghanistan’s intelligence agency, National Directorate of Security (NDS),
Ayaz Gul VOA News November 20, 2019 ISLAMABAD – The U.S. military said Wednesday two of its service members were killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan. The cause of the crash is under investigation, however preliminary reports do not indicate it was caused by enemy fire, according to an official announcement. The latest fatalities
The Guardian (UK): A paedophile ring involved in the abuse of at least 546 boys from six schools has been discovered in Afghanistan’s Logar province. Some of the victims of the abuse have since been murdered according to the campaigners who first discovered videos of abuse posted to a Facebook page. “Impunity, toxic gender norms