Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty July 17, 2018 A suicide bomber has killed 20 people in northern Afghanistan, including a Taliban commander, an Afghan official says. Abdul Qauom Baqizoi, provincial chief police of the northern Sar-e Pul Province, said the attack took place as village elders met with Taliban officials in the area. No group claimed
Ariana: Sayed Akbar Agha, head of the Council for the Salvation of Afghanistan says a set timetable for withdrawal of foreign forces and the release of Taliban prisoners could pave way for the second ceasefire in the country. He said about 46,000 Taliban members are currently under the government’s captivity, insisting that the release of some of
The Hill: A former Afghan interpreter for U.S. forces is accusing the Afghanistan government of releasing Taliban prisoners “under the table.” Saber Rock spoke with Hill TV’s “Rising” on Tuesday morning, where he was strongly critical of Kabul’s handling of the war against the Taliban. He noted that the American government has spent billions in its war
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty May 31, 2018 Afghan special forces have freed more than 100 prisoners held by the Taliban, including women and children, in an operation in the southern province of Helmand, the military says. Army spokesman Abdul Qadeir Bahadorzai said the early morning operation on May 31 freed 103 people held in two
Press TV January 11, 2018 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has granted clemency to 75 prisoners loyal to former warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar who reached a landmark peace deal with the government in Kabul in 2016. According to Shah Mir Amirpoor, the press officer at the Pul-e-Charkhi detention center east of Kabul, the inmates were released on
Ayesha Tanzeem VOA News April 5, 2017 ISLAMABAD — Almost 20 Afghan inmates in the Pul-i-Charkhi prison, on the outskirts of the capital, Kabul, have sewn their lips shut to protest government policies. They are part of a group of 300 prisoners who are on a hunger strike against a presidential decree denying them the right
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 21, 2017 U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl sought a dismissal of desertion charges against him, saying he cannot get a fair trial now that Donald Trump, who has called him a traitor, is president. Bergdahl’s lawyers submitted a motion to dismiss the case on January 20, the day Trump took
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 18, 2017 The United States on January 17 confirmed that 10 prisoners had been released from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and transferred to Oman. Oman’s Foreign Ministry said on January 16 that it had accepted the prisoners at U.S. President Barrack Obama’s request and that they had
VOA News November 15, 2016 WASHINGTON — An International Criminal Court investigation of possible war crimes by U.S. forces in Afghanistan is not “warranted or appropriate,” the U.S. State Department said Tuesday after prosecutors in The Hague found initial grounds for such a probe. State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said the United States was not a
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty November 15, 2016 Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court say they have “reasonable basis” to believe the United States committed “war crimes” by torturing prisoners in Afghanistan. The U.S. military subjected at least 61 detainees in Afghanistan to “torture, cruel treatment, [and] outrages upon personal dignity,” an initial investigative report said