Reuters: The parents of Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui, who was killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan last year, have begun legal action at the International Criminal Court (ICC) against the Islamist group, a lawyer for the family said on Tuesday. Click here to read more (external link).
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi March 15, 2022 Newly emerged video of the summary execution of an Afghan accused of fighting against the Taliban in the Panjshir Valley and the torture and killing of a shopkeeper in the northeastern region have added to the growing list of brutal acts of vengeance carried out by the extremist group
جنایت یا عفو عمومی این جوان بلال نام دارد از حصارک #پنجشیر است، به دست طالبان اسیر شده بود به جرم پنجشیری بودن و دریشی نظامی داشتن محکمه صحرایی و شهیدش میسازند. نه میبخشیم و نه فراموش میکنیم pic.twitter.com/Lw3jJMMEBE — Kabir Wasiq (@kabWasiq) March 11, 2022 Tolo News: A video showing what appears to be
Press TV February 26, 2022 A former Australian army commander accused of war crimes while serving in Afghanistan as part of a US-led occupation force told another soldier “I just want to kill [expletive],” a witness has said during a court hearing. Testifying in a federal court case in which the ex-commander, Ben Roberts-Smith, is
Al Jazeera: Prosecutors say that from 1983 to 1990, he was the chief of Pul-e-Charkhi prison east of Kabul, where regime opponents were held without fair trial in “appalling conditions”. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty January 30, 2022 A report from UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to the UN Security Council reportedly accuses the fundamentalist Taliban of dozens of revenge killings since the Taliban swept into control of much of Afghanistan in August. Reuters news agency on January 30 cited a copy it obtained of the
CNN: The US military released videos Wednesday of the botched August 29 drone strike in Kabul that killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children. The newly released videos show the view from above Kabul as the military tracked a white Toyota Corolla through parts of the city, believing that it was an ISIS-K car laden
8am: Taliban shot dead, Jura, one of the commanders of the popular uprising of the former government, who is a resident of Tabatash village in Takhar district of Rustaq. According to sources, the incident took place on Thursday night in the village of Khawja Palkhman in the district. “He laid down his weapon and returned
By RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi December 15, 2021 Amnesty International says it has documented torture and extrajudicial executions committed by the Taliban as the group seized power in Afghanistan in August. Taliban members have “tortured and killed ethnic and religious minorities, former ANDSF (Afghan National Defense Security Forces) soldiers, and those perceived as government sympathizers in
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty December 13, 2021 No U.S. military personnel will be held accountable for a Kabul drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, in August, the Pentagon has said. An investigation by the U.S. Air Force inspector-general last month called the August 29 strike, which took place during the U.S.-led