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October 28, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IBTimes: Pervez Musharraf has admitted that his country trained militants for a dozen terror outfits including the Lashkar-e-Taiba. The former Pakistani president claimed Pakistan’s governments actively supported terrorists in order to foment militancy in Indian-controlled Kashmir, which is at the heart of its dispute with its larger nuclear-armed neighbour. Full news...
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October 27, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Common Dreams: The Associated Press provided new evidence Monday that the U.S. military knew that the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan was an active medical facility before they bombed it, bolstering the aid agency’s charge that the attack—which killed at least 30 people—amounted to a war crime. Full news...
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October 26, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: A police force member claimed on Monday that he was severely beaten up by the guards of second Vice President Mohammad Sarwar Danish. The footage filmed by TOLOnews shows a policeman, Aimal Qaderi, all covered in blood with his head severely injured. He said that he was beaten up after he stopped the cars of Danish’s guards who he said were trying to cross a road illegally. Full news...
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October 25, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Fiscal Times: The Defense Department has spent more than 470 million USD to maintain the Afghan Local Police (ALP) and is on the hook to spend millions more, even though the force itself is hindered by corruption and poor management, according to a top federal watchdog. A new report from the office of John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), says the Pentagon will spend an additional 121 million USD through 2016 supporting an effort that lacks oversight, logistical support and controls for the payment of salaries. Full news...
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October 16, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: The controversial U.S. drone strike program in the Middle East aims to pinpoint and kill terrorist leaders, but new documents indicate that a staggering number of these “targeted killings” affect far more people than just their targets. Full news...
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October 13, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: The Taliban insurgency has spread through more of Afghanistan than at any point since 2001, according to data compiled by the United Nations as well as interviews with numerous local officials in areas under threat. In addition, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan over the past two weeks has evacuated four of its 13 provincial offices around the country — the most it has ever done for security reasons — according to local officials in the affected areas. Full news...
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October 12, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Nation: The aerial destruction that rained down on a hospital complex run by Doctors Without Borders in Kunduz, a provincial capital in northeast Afghanistan, on October 3 puts an exclamation point on the story of America’s 14 years of warfare in that Central Asian country. At least 22 people were killed, among them doctors, other medical personnel, and patients, including three children, and dozens were wounded in the attack. Full news...
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October 10, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Common Dreams: Twin explosions outside Ankara’s main train station on Saturday morning killed at least 86 people and wounded up to 190 in an attack targeting a peace rally in Turkey’s capital city. The peace rally and march was organized by unions, NGO's and the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) to protest against the conflict between the state and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in southeast Turkey. Full news...
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October 7, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Brave New Films: Today (October 7th) is the 14th Anniversary of “Operation Enduring Freedom” -the day the US invaded Afghanistan. We’ve spent billions of dollars, but we’re no safer as a result. Time after time, we've seen that military solutions DO NOT WORK to solve political problems. Last week, American forces bombed a Doctors without Borders hospital in Afghanistan. WHY ARE WE STILL THERE? Full news...
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October 5, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AlterNet: The fate of women in Afghanistan has been the moral linchpin for the continued occupation by U.S. and NATO forces since the presidency of George W. Bush. But according to experts and women across the war-torn country, little has changed for women there despite upwards of 1.5 billion USD spent to empower women and girls. Instead, a deeply misogynist culture and ruling class endure in spite of ongoing pledges from political leaders to Western audiences promising progress. Full news...
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October 4, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
MSF: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) nurse Lajos Zoltan Jecs was in Kunduz trauma hospital when the facility was struck by a series of aerial bombing raids in the early hours of Saturday morning. He describes his experience. Full news...
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October 3, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
BBC News: The medical charity MSF says at least nine of its staff were killed in the Afghan city of Kunduz after a clinic was hit by an air strike on Saturday. US forces were carrying out air strikes at the time. The Nato alliance has admitted the clinic may have been hit. MSF says 37 people were seriously wounded in the attack, 19 of whom are its staff. Full news...
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October 2, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
TOLOnews.com: The unemployment rate has peaked to 40 percent in Afghanistan, showing a 15 percent increase as compared to the same time last year, officials said Friday. According to Central Statistics Organization (CSO), the unemployment figure for 2015 was only 25 percent. Insecurity, lack of jobs in government and the private sector organizations and a downturn of industries are the main factors behind growing unemployment, CSO officials said. Full news...
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October 1, 2015 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Amnesty International: Mass murder, gang rapes and house-to-house searches by Taliban death squads are just some of the harrowing civilian testimonies emerging from Kunduz as Afghan forces today claimed to have regained control of key areas of the northern city, Amnesty International said. The organization has spoken to numerous people, the majority of them women, who have fled Kunduz since Monday, when the Taliban launched a sudden assault on the city. Full news...