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May 22, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Relatives of a teenage girl, who was found dead in her brother-in-law’s house last year, on Monday accused a provincial council member of shooting her during a court hearing in central Bamyan province. The 16-year-old victim, identified as Shakila, was found shot dead in the Zargaran village on the outskirts of Bamyan City, the provincial capital. Full news...
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May 21, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: In the shadow of the Nato summit, under the watchful eyes of a phalanx of full-black-clad riot police, dozens of former servicemen and women in uniform, veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, threw away their medals, with apologies. It was one of the most moving experiences many of us had witnessed in our lives. It is hard to describe in words. Full news...
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May 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Al Jazeera: At least 21 people have died and scores of others have gone missing after flash floods triggered by torrential rains destroyed thousands of homes in two provinces in northern Afghanistan, officials have said. It was reported on Sunday that the floods left thousands of people homeless on Saturday after it struck the provincial capitals of Sari Pul and Takhar. Full news...
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May 20, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Msnbc.com: Members of the Afghan army are forging secret alliances with the Taliban, threatening to undermine the ability of Afghan authorities to maintain control just as NATO troops prepare to hand over power to the country’s security forces, Britain's Sunday Times reported. In Ghazni province an hour from capital Kabul, Afghan army lieutenant Mohammad Wali admitted to the newspaper that he and a local Taliban commander were working together. Full news...
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May 19, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Unidentified gunmen set fire to a boys’ school in the northern province of Baghlan, affecting hundreds of students, officials said on Saturday. The incident took place late on Friday night in the Kishanabad area of Banu district, the town’s administrative head, Abdul Wali Hamidi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. A delegation was sent to the area to assess the damage, he said. Full news...
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May 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Examiner.com: Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) asked Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Friday to invite members of Afghanistan’s Northern Alliance to this weekend’s NATO summit in Chicago. Yet, especially given Rohrabacher‘s strong human rights record, many Afghans are wondering why his NATO guest list is stacked with warlords that have as much blood on their hands as the Taliban. Full news...
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May 18, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Close ties between Afghan Taliban or criminal elements and officials highly placed in the government threaten to prevent the Afghan National Army from fulfilling its security responsibilities when it fully takes over control of the country, a top Afghan general told The Huffington Post. Full news...
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May 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Two civilians were killed and three others injured by an ISAF convoy guards on the Kandahar-Kabul highway in southern Zabul province on Thursday, an official said. The men, residents of Shah Joi district, came under fire from the private security guards at 1pm east of Qalat, the provincial capital, the town’s administrative head told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: A delegation of the Afghan officials who were assigned to probe NATO air raid in eastern Kunar province on Wednesday said at least 5 Afghan civilians were killed following the airstrike in this province. Mawlawi Shahzada Shahid Afghan lawmaker representing eastern Kunar province and a member of the delegation who visited the area said at least 5 Afghan civilians were killed and 2 others were injured at Watapur district. Full news...
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May 17, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
SocialistWorker.org: MORE THAN 800 activists from the U.S., Europe and the Middle East gathered in Chicago for the People's Summit over the May 12-13 weekend to kick off a week of action before the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) planned for May 20-21.During the summit, government leaders will review their plans for maintaining control of war-torn Afghanistan, Africa and Kosovo... Full news...
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May 16, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IRIN: Bonded labour in Afghanistan’s brick kilns is one of the most common forms of hazardous labour in the country. More than half of the brick kiln workers surveyed in a recent report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) were children, with most under 14. Few are getting any education to allow them to develop skills needed to break out of work in the kilns. Full news...
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May 15, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of schoolchildren were poisoned in the Ismailkhel Mandozai district of southeastern Khost province on Tuesday, an official said. The incident took place in the Urzi area, where all the 600 students of a middle school were poisoned, education department spokesman Syed Musa Majrooh told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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May 14, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Local officials in western Farah province said on Monday that there was no school in Bakwa district while militant threats had forced the closure of five schools in Gulistan town. There was only one school that Taliban fighters destroyed five years ago, depriving many girls and boys of education Bakwa, said Mohammad Ismail, the district’s administrative chief. Full news...
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May 11, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Institute for Policy Studies: It shouldn’t surprise anyone, but support for the longest U.S. war is dropping further and faster than ever. The latest national U.S. poll, released on May 9, shows 66 percent of Americans are against the war in Afghanistan – with 40 percent “strongly opposed.” We can expect to hear the usual spin, claims that it’s a hard slog but Afghans are still better off and we have to finish what we started. Full news...
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May 10, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Taliban militants dressed in police uniforms blew themselves up after being caught trying to sneak through a checkpoint Thursday in eastern Afghanistan, killing five people, authorities said. Police at the checkpoint in Paktika province’s Yayakhil district became suspicious of the men and told them to stop, said provincial police chief Dawlit Khan Zadran. Full news...
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May 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Hundreds of residents including tribal elders, influential and Ulama, urge the government to stop militiamen from harassing people in northern Kunduz province. The militia is a voluntary armed tribal force created by locals to ensure security for their communities. However, they are presently deployed as an armed force but with no official rank in the government. They are equipped and supported by the government and US forces to fight the rebels. Full news...
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May 9, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Crienglish.com: Fourteen civilians were killed and six others injured as warplanes of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) raided the suspected Taliban hideouts in Badghis province 555 km northwest of capital Kabul on Monday, local officials said Tuesday. “The aircraft of NATO-led forces raided the suspected hideouts of Taliban militants in Balamirghab district in the wee hours of Monday but it mistakenly struck residential houses as a result 14 civilians including women and children were martyred... Full news...
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May 8, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Independent.ie: Motherhood is considered to be a highly demanding, if not rewarding task, wherever one lives in the world. But for many in developing countries, being a mother can mean a daily struggle against disease, malnutrition and poverty. The startling disparity of conditions is revealed today in a report in which Niger has been named as the worst place in the world to bear children. Full news...
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May 7, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Flash flooding in northern Afghanistan killed at least 26 people in northern Afghanistan and rescue workers fear the toll may rise, officials said Monday. Eight hours of relentless rainfall that began Sunday led to the flooding in several districts of Sar-e-Pol province, said Faizullah Sadat, provincial director of Afghanistan Disaster Management Authority (ANDMA). Full news...
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May 6, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: An Afghan journalist with the state-run Iranian news agency was detained has been detained by intelligence operatives on the charge of spying for the neighbouring country, an official said on Sunday. A knowledgeable source, who wanted not to be named, revealed the Fars News Agency (FAN) reporter was caught while transferring secret documents to the Iranian Embassy in Kabul. Full news...
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May 3, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Bay Area Indymedia: Replicating post-WW II occupations is planned. Sixty-seven years after war’s end, US troops still occupy Germany, Japan and Korea. They're part of America’s growing empire of bases. Status of forces (SOFA) agreements establish the framework under which US forces operate abroad. Full news...
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May 2, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Salam Watandar (Translated by RAWA): In today’s session of the senate, the head and its members criticized the protest of the Solidarity Party of Afghanistan against the 27th and 28th April, that was held the day before. Hundreds of SPA members condemned the perpetrators of the 27th and 28th April revolutions in their demonstration, and demanded the prosecution of the Jehadi leaders and commanders, members of the Khalq and Parcham parties and the group of Taliban. Full news...
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May 1, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Hundreds of protesters carrying the bodies of two people killed in a NATO-Afghan raid blocked a key road in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday. The demonstrators say the dead were villagers while the coalition says they were Taliban insurgents. The protest was one of the first since a recent U.S.-Afghan deal on night raids mandated that Afghans were supposed to take the lead in such operations with U.S. forces taking a back seat. Full news...
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April 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Several protesters on Monday demonstrated against the war crimes which took place during 27/April/1978 after the Democractic Republic Party of Afghanistan toppled down the government of Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan and 28/April/1992 after the Mujahideen toppled down the Pro-Soviet government. Full news...
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April 30, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IWPR: At the Balkh public hospital in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif, 24-year-old Yasin was by the bedside of his father, Mahmud, who had been admitted with a head injury. His fellow villagers in Badghis province had beaten him up. “My father was admitted here eight days ago, and since then the doctors have only provided him with eight IV drips,” Yasin told an IWPR reporter. Full news...
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April 29, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
OpEdNews: The history of Afghanistan is riddled with foreign invasions, intrigues and interventions. During the last three decades, Iran and Pakistan have played their intrigues and interferences to undermine the foundations of Afghanistan. Iran’s aspiration to become a regional power, to catch its old glory, and to make a powerful influence base in Afghanistan is not unseen... Full news...
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April 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
RFE/RL: A new Afghan youth group is making waves in Kabul with an unprecedented campaign against the country’s former warlords. Members of the Afghan Freedom-Loving Youth Group swept through the streets of Kabul this week, putting up hundreds of posters and spraying graffiti messages critical of the strongmen, many of whom still wield significant influence on the country’s political affairs. Full news...
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April 27, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Socialist Alternative: In January 2012, a video published on websites such as Youtube revealed four U.S. Marines urinating on dead Taliban fighters. On February 20, U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan incinerated several Qur’ans, leading to weeks of protest that left six U.S. military personnel and 30 Afghans dead. Three weeks later, U.S. Staff Sergeant Robert Bales went on an unprovoked killing spree that left 17 Afghan civilians dead, mostly children. Full news...
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April 25, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Khaama Press: Chief of the High Office of Oversight and Anti-Corruption of Afghanistan disclosed the name of an Afghan cabinet minister who has been charged with corruption. Dr. Azizullah Lodeen while speaking among the Kabul University lecturers said Mohammad Ismail minister of water and energy is involved in stealing money and properties. Full news...
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April 23, 2012 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Huffington Post: Last weekend, in Kabul, Afghan Peace Volunteer friends huddled in the back room of their simple home. With a digital camera, glimpses and sounds of their experiences were captured, as warfare erupted three blocks away. The fighting has subdued, but the video gives us a glimpse into chronic anxieties among civilians throughout Afghanistan. Full news...
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