Insider:”‘Before we start this withdrawal,’ President Trump said, ‘I want to make something clear. Let me just tell you right now that if anything bad happens to Americans or America interests, or if you ever come over to our land, we will hit you with a force that no country has ever been hit with
Tolo News: The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor for Afghanistan has defended his decision to “deprioritize” the focus on the United States in an investigation of war crimes in Afghanistan, saying that the “worst crimes” were committed by Daesh and the Taliban. Click here to read more (external link).
Antiwar.com: An “honest mistake” is buying your partner the wrong perfume or copying someone into an email chain by accident. It is not firing a drone missile at a car, killing 10 civilians – and doing so when a small child was clearly visible moments earlier. Click here to read more (external link).
BBC News: Senior military officers buried evidence that British troops were executing detainees in Afghanistan, the High Court has been told. Ministry of Defence documents reveal UK Special Forces officers suspected their men were killing unarmed Afghans who posed no threat. Click here to read more (external link).
Al Jazeera: Campaigners raise concerns against The Hague-based court’s plan to exclude US forces from war crimes investigation. The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) decision last year to launch an investigation into alleged war crimes had raised hopes that grave atrocities committed during decades of conflict in Afghanistan would not be swept under the rug. Click
AP: An independent Pentagon review has concluded that the U.S. drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children in the final days of the Afghanistan war was not caused by misconduct or negligence, and it doesn’t recommend any disciplinary action, The Associated Press has learned. Click here to read more (external link).
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty October 25, 2021 Human Rights Watch (HRW) has warned that the attacks against Afghanistan’s Shi’ite minority perpetrated by an affiliate of the Islamic State group amount to crimes against humanity. Islamic State-Khorasan Province (IS-K) has claimed responsibility for some of the worst recent attacks in Afghanistan, including suicide bombings among Shi’ite
Mahjabeen's family was threatened not to speak to the media. And change the narrative that she comitted sucide. She did not. https://t.co/83riNVkqyh — Sarfaraz (@Sarfaraz1201) October 21, 2021 New York Post: She was killed earlier this month, but her death remained mostly hidden because her family had been threatened not to talk, claimed the coach,
By Ron Synovitz RFE/RL’s Radio Azadi October 19, 2021 Like hundreds of families in Ghor Province who once survived on payments from Afghanistan’s former government, 14-year-old Ahmad Zia and his relatives have been devastated by the Taliban’s seizure of power. The men in Ahmad Zia’s extended family were members of an ethnic-Tajik Popular Uprising Force that
Dozens of people have disappeared in #Panjshir since #Taliban invasion . their bodies are now being found in mass graves. This is 4th mass grave found ; 3 other Graves have already been discovered in Dashtak, Rokha and Anaba districts of Panjshir.@hrw @UN @antonioguterres pic.twitter.com/OWPp9wv2dw — Nilofar Ayoubi (@NilofarAyoubi) October 9, 2021