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May 31, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: A roadside bomb killed 14 civilians in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, the latest violence in the country as US-led troops prepare to leave after 13 years of war. The victims were travelling in the Giro district of Ghazni province after a wedding ceremony when the bomb ripped through their vehicle, district governor Abdullah Khairkhwah told AFP. Full news...
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May 31, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: During the last six days, Pakistani army troops have fired around 862 missiles into eastern Kunar province, inflicting heavy financial loses, local officials said on Saturday. Police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Hasib Sayedkhel, said 71 more missiles had been fired into Dangam and Shigal districts of the province since Friday afternoon. Full news...
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May 30, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Vice News: A warlord, an illiterate drug smuggler, and a CIA-funded killer walk into a war. That’s not the setup to a joke — it’s the punchline to America’s failed intervention in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama said yesterday that US forces would be all but out of the country by the end of 2016. Full news...
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May 29, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Stars and Stripes: A Rossville man has pleaded guilty to laundering some 250,000 USD in bribe money received from Afghan contractors in Afghanistan, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says. James C. Pittman, 45, pleaded guilty last Thursday before Magistrate Judge William B. Carter according to a news release. Full news...
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May 28, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WSWS.org: In a brief appearance in the White House Rose Garden Tuesday, President Barack Obama announced that the US would maintain nearly 10,000 troops in Afghanistan next year despite an official declaration of an end to combat operations. Obama said his plan to keep thousands of US military forces in the country for the next two years was dependent on the reaching of a military cooperation agreement with the incoming president of Afghanistan. Full news...
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May 26, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: Afghanistan’ s election commission has fired 5,338 of its staff over alleged fraud in the first round of presidential elections last month. Those sacked will be barred from working on the second round next month, commission officials said. Full news...
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May 25, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: Even government offices have flouted the law on jobs for the disabled. An Independent Media Consortium (IMC) investigation. Article 22 of the Law on Rights and Privileges of Persons with Disabilities says 3 percent of jobs in all offices – whether private or government – have to go to the disabled. Full news...
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May 23, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
A Mind Infinite: With the revelation of the United States most massively targeted state subject to 24/7 surveillance being Afghanistan. Nearly every phone call or other form of communication being made intercepted, in complete disregard to personal privacy and without context of targeting specific individuals. The aims of the United States government once again are shown publicly in relation to it’s occupation of Afghanistan. Full news...
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May 22, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: It’s reckoned that as much as 60 percent of Afghanistan’s gross domestic product has been generated from the presence of foreign troops over the past decade - either directly through military spending in the country, or because of the billions of dollars of aid and investment that followed in its wake. Full news...
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May 21, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Lawmakers from central Logar province on Wednesday accused Governor Niaz Mohammad Amiri of embezzling 5 million afghanis allocated for assistance to families from Azra district. But Amiri said he had kept the amount unspent. Some nine months back, the government set aside 5 million afs in cash and 300 tonnes of wheat for those hit by a draught-like situation after rebels kept the supply route closed for months. Full news...
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May 19, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Three children were killed following a rocket attack in southern Helmand province, an official said on Monday. The incident took place in the Shawol area of Nad Ali district late on Sunday, the governor’s spokesman, Omar Zwak, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 18, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
FoxNews.com: Iran is recruiting Afghan refugees to fight in Syria, offering 500 USD a month and Iranian residency permits to help fight rebel forces, The Wall Street Journal reported. Details of recruitment efforts by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps were posted this week on a blog about Afghan refugees living in Iran and confirmed to the newspaper by Afghans and Western officials. Full news...
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May 17, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Southern Daily Echo: More army veterans are seeking help for mental health problems, a new report has revealed. The physical scars Sgt Jay Baldwin bears from the war in Afghanistan are impossible to ignore. Sitting in his wheelchair, he does nothing to hide the protruding stumps of his legs from public view. Full news...
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May 15, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The number of drug addicts has doubled in two years in northern Jawzjan province, where most robbery incidents are blamed on junkies. Health officials say the population of addicts had risen from 1,100 in 2012 to more than 2,000 in 2014. In Shiberghan, the number of drug addicts has increased to 300 from 100 a year back. Full news...
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May 14, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Washington Times: The U.S. government isn’t doing enough to fight corruption in Afghanistan, the top American watchdog for the country said Wednesday, raising the concern that much of the effort and the 103 billion USD that has been given to rebuild the war-torn nation is being lost to graft. Full news...
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May 13, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A journalist was beaten and others were threatened by police after they attempted to cover the scene of a rocket attack that left eight civilians injured in the capital of southern Ghazni province on Tuesday. Pajhwok reporter Saifullah Maftoon and other journalists were barred from entering the hospital where the injured civilians had been taken. Full news...
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May 12, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Militants carried out a deadly attack on a government building in eastern Afghanistan and fired rockets near Kabul’s main airport Monday as the Taliban began their annual spring offensive. An armed group stormed the provincial Justice Department in the city of Jalalabad on Monday morning, clashing with Afghan security forces, authorities said. Full news...
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May 11, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Pakistani security forces have allegedly started the construction of military installations at the Zero-Point along the Durand Line well inside southern Kandahar province, officials claimed on Sunday. A team of experts has been sent to the area in Maroof district to investigate the matter, the acting spokesman for the governor said. Full news...
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May 10, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: The Ministry of Defence is investigating pictures showing a member of the British armed forces in Afghanistan posing with his thumb up beside the body of a dead Taliban fighter. An MoD spokesperson described the actions of the soldier as inappropriate. Full news...
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May 9, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Dawn.com: A deeply entrenched culture of corruption in Afghanistan not only defied America’s efforts to curb it but grew substantially worse because of international intervention, says a US military report. Prepared for the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, the report acknowledges that US military forces were unprepared to deal with a country where private deal-making dominates public policymaking. Full news...
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May 8, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RT: Recruited to help run Afghanistan’s security and intelligence operations in the aftermath of the US war against the Taliban, the country’s most feared security official dubbed “torturer in chief” now has settled in a pink two-story house in California. Full news...
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May 7, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A woman was beaten to death by her spouse in western Herat province and another was gunned down by unidentified assailants in northern Faryab province, officials said on Wednesday. The murder in Herat took place in Safarabad area of Karkh district on Wednesday, the governor’s spokesman, Ihsanullah Hayat, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 7, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Killid Group: IMC report - It is no surprise that tens of thousands of children are exposed to drug use in their homes. But what is worrying is that the use of a glue used by shoemakers and petrol by children is rising alarmingly in Kabul. “Donors have no interest in supporting deaddiction.” Full news...
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May 5, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Afghans are angry at officials who posed for a photo with smiling faces on a red carpet spot near the mass grave for victims of a massive mudslide in the Argo district of northeastern Badakhshan province. Local officials have said there was now no hope for more than 2,000 people believed buried in their homes by the mudslide that engulfed Ab Barik village on May 2. Full news...
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May 3, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: Officials in Afghanistan have said that at least 2,000 people are feared dead after a mountainside collapsed causing a massive landslide in a remote region of the country. Seven people were pulled alive from the mud and debris that flattened 300 homes but rescuers were pessimistic about anyone else being alive beneath the piles of earth. Full news...
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May 2, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: The Afghanistan Solidarity Party (ASP) on Friday denounced the communist and Taliban regimes as well as the mujahideen for the country’s destruction. The party staged a rally, attended by a thousand people, in front of the Russian Embassy in Kabul, against the 1978 coup and the subsequent Soviet occupation of the country. Full news...
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May 1, 2014 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: Belqisa, a grade four student at the Wargha village school, perched on an improvised stool consisting of two bricks stacked together. Around her, in their open-air classroom, fellow students sat either on rocks or on the ground. Looking around her, Belqisa said, “We don’t have a classroom. We study under the blue sky. When it rains, they send us home, but we burn up in the summer heat and shiver in the cold of winter.” Full news...