Source: Dawn KABUL: At least 24 people were killed and 91 wounded on Monday in a double suicide bombing in central Kabul during late afternoon rush hour, the latest assault on the Afghan capital. The carnage near the defence ministry came as the Taliban ramp up their nationwide summer offensive […]
Source: Time Lauren Chadwick and R. Jeffrey Smith / Center for Public Integrity The Pentagon has spent billions of dollars since 2001 funneling roughly more than a million assault rifles, […]
Source. Dawn ISLAMABAD: A Punjab government Mi-17 helicopter crash landed on Thursday in Afghanistan’s Logar province where Taliban insurgents took the crew hostage before setting the helicopter on fire. DawnNews reported the helicopter had seven people onboard at the time of the incident, and was on its way for maintenance […]
August 23, 2015 “After its defeats in Anglo-Afghan wars in 1842, 1880 and 1919, Britain wanted to avenge the defeats in form of carving Pakistan out from the land of Afghanistan and India. Pakistani leadership was aware of the fact that Pashtuns would never accept Pakistan as their homeland, therefore, […]
Source. The Daily Beast At least 80 people were killed and another 231 wounded Saturday after an explosion tore through a protest in Kabul by minority Shiite Hazaras, Reuters reported. “Opportunist terrorists” took advantage of the protest to kill and wound “a number of our countrymen, including security and defense […]
Source: The Daily Beast We were sitting on the cliffs as darkness fell, obscuring our view of the niches across from us where the giant Buddhas had for centuries smiled upon the fertile valley. It had only been a few years before that they were blasted away by the Taliban. The […]
Source: The Guardian By Naureen Shah The Situation Room, a commander-in-chief with rapidly graying hair, a cluster of grim-faced men and women debating the ethics and the legality of a […]
Source. BBC Taliban bombers have attacked an Afghan police convoy outside the capital Kabul, killing at least 30 people and wounding 50 others, officials say. Two bombs hit a convoy of buses carrying graduates from a ceremony on the city’s western outskirts. Paghman District Governor Musa Khan told the BBC that […]
Flare-up of Afghanistan-Pakistan border tensions signals a shift of dynamics in their historically thorny relationship. A woman coming from Afghanistan enters the information centre at the border post in Torkham, Pakistan [Reuters] by Helena Malikyar @HelenaMalikyar Helena Malikyar is an Afghan political analyst and historian. Julian Huxley once wrote that […]
Source: Huffington Post By Magdalena Mis Thomson Reuters Foundation LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The number of Afghans internally displaced by conflict has “dramatically” doubled to 1.2 million in just three years, Amnesty International said on Tuesday, warning that a lack of basic services was putting people on the brink […]
SALEEM SHAHID QUETTA: Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour, believed to have been killed in a US air strike in Balochistan on Saturday, was a frequent traveller and over the past nine years used at least two Pakistani airports for his visits abroad. Mansour was coming to Quetta from Taftan […]
The conflict with the Taliban looks unlikely to end any time soon. Afghans are losing hope their situation will improve. 03 May 2016 00:47 GMT The 2001 US invasion dramatically changed the way Afghans live in a way they could not have imagined [EPA] ABOUT THE AUTHOR Qais Azimy Qais Azimy […]
Source: BBC By Yalda Hakim BBC News, Kabul When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in the 1990s they were quick to ban television, along with music and theatre. The […]
Source: Huffington Post When Afghanistan’s national women’s soccer team takes the field in the near future, the players will be decked in a uniform that marks both their country’s deep-seated […]
Voices I have long nursed the suspicion that Taliban units, Isis and government militias are not fighting about religion or government at all, more about mafia power Robert Fisk @indyvoices 5 comments An Afghan militia man stands guard in the Achin district of Nangarhar province east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 27, 2015. AP […]
A five-year-old Afghan boy, Murtaza Ahmadi, who became an internet star after a picture of him wearing a makeshift plastic Lionel Messi jersey went viral had his dream come true as he was seen wearing the Argentine football superstar’s Barcelona jersey. A visibly excited Murtaza Ahmadi was seen playing with […]
Published time: 1 Feb, 2016 RT.COM British soldiers from B Company, 2 Mercian, set off on an operation in Malgir, Helmand province July 27, 2009. © Omar Sobhani / Reuters 2.3K British armed forces face a criminal investigation over 166 cases of alleged unlawful killing and maltreatment during Britain’s […]
Jan 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power Recently, the so-called Quadrilateral Coordination Group — comprising representatives from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the US — met in Kabul to hold discussions on a roadmap to peace in Afghanistan. A former senior Taliban official said that “military confrontation is not the […]
Last week, President Obama decided to admit 10,000 Syrian refugees to the United States. But there’s another group of foreigners who deserve our help much more – the 50,000 men and women who served as interpreters for American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. During my two deployments, I worked with […]
Source: New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan — Farkhunda had one chance to escape the mob that wanted to kill her. Two Afghan police officers pulled her onto the roof of […]