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June 22, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: More than 80,000 people in the Afghanistan’s western provinces are vulnerable to landmines, a demining coordination centre announced on Wednesday. The Mine Action Coordination Centre for Afghanistan (MACA) said Wednesday that the residents of 140 villages in the provinces of Farah, Herat, Ghor and Badghis were still at risk, despite a recent reduction in mine-related casualties. Full news...
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June 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
CNN: Far away from the war, in the remote hills of Badakhshan, there is another battle raging. Trundling into the valleys on dusty roads ripped up by large SUVs, an Afghan task force is heading towards their target: an industry so profitable that many fear it's Afghanistan’s only viable option once the West pulls its troops and money out. Full news...
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June 21, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Ongoing cross-border attacks from Pakistan have displaced hundreds of families in eastern Kunar province, the provincial council said, calling on the Afghan government to prevent the shelling. For the past two weeks, Pakistani forces have been shelling villages on the Afghan border. So far more than 14 people, including women and children, have been killed as a result. Full news...
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June 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
GlobalPost: The man sits cross-legged on the floor of his mud house, one of several in a walled compound on the barren outskirts of Kabul, welcoming his visitors with tea, cookies and a wan smile. There’s nothing out here but a few other mud-brick structures, hidden behind walls ― no stores, no schools, no toys for the wide-eyed children. Behind them dusty emptiness stretches as far as the eye can see. Full news...
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June 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Politics.co.uk: Early on Saturday Brian Haw died of lung cancer. It was the end of a life whose last ten years had been among the most unusual in modern British history. He had devoted himself to a solitary protest against Britain's foreign policy, earning himself an unusual place in the history books. His dogged unshakeable stubbornness was as British as the red buses constantly passing by. Full news...
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June 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Six civilians have been killed in a new cross-border attack by Pakistani forces on a village in eastern Kunar province, the governor said on Monday. A number of rocket and mortar shells fired from Pakistan struck civilian homes in the Saw village of Nari district on Sunday night, Syed Fazlullah Wahidi, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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June 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: Continued Taliban-led insurgency, insecurity incidents, high rate of unemployment and poverty have been main obstacle to delay the return of over six million Afghan refugees from neighboring states. “Almost all Afghan refugees living in neighboring country of Iran prefer to return home country, but they were forced to stay abroad due to continued war, insecurity and high rate of unemployment in Afghanistan,”... Full news...
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June 20, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Telegraph: Residents and officials warn that the rush to recruit local defence forces around Kandahar following the arrival of last year’s surge of American troops had given rise to poorly-controlled armed gangs. They listed armed robberies, thefts and assaults by the militias, saying the groups had become the main worry of many residents in the province’s rural districts. Full news...
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June 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Mehr News Agency: The president launched an attack against the U.S.-NATO forces occupying his country on Saturday, saying the motives behind their presence were suspect and complained that their weaponry was polluting his country, The New York Times reported. “Every time when their planes fly it makes smoke, when they drop bombs they have chemical materials in them, our people get killed but also our environment is damaged,” Karzai said. Full news...
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June 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: A cornerstone US policy to turn Afghan farmers into armed watchmen to keep out the Taliban has hit controversy and been scaled back over allegations of infighting and illegal taxation. In Marjah, the 1,150 trained local police or “arbaki” patrol an area transformed from insurgent hotbed into a mostly peaceful farming district in southern Afghanistan since a military operation 15 months ago. Full news...
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June 19, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: A rocket struck a school in central Kapisa province, killing the principle, and injuring two teachers and five students, officials said on Sunday. The rocket landed on Wahdat High School at 11am during a clash between Taliban fighters and security personnel in Tagab district, the district police chief, Col. Padshah Gul Bakhtyar, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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June 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Age: ON A HOT Afghan morning, The Saturday Age steps past a child’s upturned tricycle, and around a dilapidated armoured vehicle. A vulture carefully watches as we head inside to speak with the man some call the King of Oruzgan. As Western faith in President Hamid Karzai’s capacity to deliver government fades, and with NATO increasingly relying on sometimes brutal allies to fight the insurgency... Full news...
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June 18, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
PAN: Four children in the eastern province of Kunar were killed by missiles fired from Pakistan, officials said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday night when missiles fired from Pakistan’s Mohmand Agency landed on residents’ houses in Shunkrai area of the Sarkani district, provincial governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi told Pajhwok Afghan News. Full news...
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June 17, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Guardian: As he saunters into the shisha bar atop one of Kabul’s most exclusive hotels, the man accused of rivalling only the Taliban in terms of the damage he has done to Afghanistan does not seem particularly haunted by his actions. Nor does he seem worried that he might have to answer for his role in what is, in relative terms given Afghanistan’s tiny economy, the biggest bank collapse in history. Full news...
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June 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
International Affairs Review: When the score is tight at the end of a baseball game, a team’s manager calls in his closer, a relief pitcher reserved for throwing the final outs. In April, President Barack Obama called in his closer for Afghanistan, Ryan C. Crocker, the former ambassador to post-war Iraq. Full news...
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June 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: Targeted violence against female public officials, dismal healthcare and desperate poverty make Afghanistan the world’s most dangerous country in which to be born a woman, a new global survey shows. The Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, India and Somalia feature in descending order after Afghanistan in the list of the five worst countries, the poll among gender experts shows. Full news...
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June 15, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WFRV News: While the war rages on in Afghanistan the military continues to cope with a battle here at home, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. To date, the military has diagnosed 78,000 cases of PTSD, but the Veteran’s Administration says that number is inaccurate. To catch up with numbers like that the Joint Chiefs of Staff recommend new programs to help both soldiers and their families. Full news...
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June 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Payam-e-Zan: This time, the American invader forces that have no other mission rather than killing and massacre of our innocent compatriots through bombardment and blind firings, turned Takhar province, north of Afghanistan, into slaughter ground. On May 27, 2011, around 11 o’clock in the night, four helicopters landed in Gomali Village of Taliqan, capital city of Takhar, and started house search. Full news...
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June 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Empirestrikesblack: A 11 June press statement from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan slates May 2011 as the deadliest month for Afghan civilians since at least 2007. However this big-hearted announcement conceals a grossly pernicious attempt to cover up US-NATO killings of civilians in occupied Afghanistan. Full news...
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June 14, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Independent: Not a single Afghan police or army unit is capable of maintaining law and order in the war-torn country without the support of coalition forces, the Independent reveals. Almost a decade after international troops were sent in to overthrow the Taleban and help to establish a functioning democracy in Afghanistan, a combination of poor training, lack of numbers, corruption and illiteracy... Full news...
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June 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The New York Times: Arbakai militias are a growing feature of life in northern Afghanistan, and many of them are actually former Taliban insurgents who have declared for the government side. So if they levy taxes on local villagers and beat up people they do not get along with, at least they’re not fighting on the side of the enemy, right? Full news...
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June 13, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
Xinhua: The war-torn Afghanistan is one of the most mine contaminated country in the globe as an estimated of 2,000 Afghans become disabled each year due to mine blasts and related incidents in the country. “The mine explosion not only severed my legs but also destroyed my life years ago,” said Afghan landmine victim Faizullah, 45, who lost both of his legs in a mine blast in Kabul province. Full news...
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June 12, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
IPS: During his intensive initial round of media interviews as commander in Afghanistan in August 2010, Gen. David Petraeus released figures to the news media that claimed spectacular success for raids by Special Operations Forces: in a 90-day period from May through July, SOF units had captured 1,355 rank and file Taliban, killed another 1,031, and killed or captured 365 middle or high-ranking Taliban. Full news...
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June 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
WSWS: Four German soldiers have been killed in the last two weeks in Afghanistan. Two were killed in a bomb attack on their patrol vehicle, and two more were victims of a bombing of a meeting of senior military and security forces in Taloqan, the capital of Takhar Province, in northern Afghanistan on May 28. Full news...
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June 11, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: A series of bombs and explosions killed 20 people in Afghanistan’s southern and eastern flashpoints on Saturday, among them at least eight children and four women, according to government officials. In the deadliest attack, a vehicle hit a mine in Arghandab district of the southern province of Kandahar Full news...
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June 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Sydney Morning Herald: Information in a new report suggests Afghanistan will collapse into chaos – or even more chaos – when America and her allies pull out in 2014. A huge proportion of the aid money being poured into the country now is going either to corruption or to prop up people and institutions who will not last five minutes once the foreign aid tap is turned off. Full news...
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June 10, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Jerusalem Post: Iran has been caught red-handed in 10 different attempts in recent years to transfer weaponry to terrorists throughout the Middle East, including a recent case, in April, when a shipment of advanced missiles was caught en-route to Taliban forces in Afghanistan, according to a United Nations report obtained Thursday by The Jerusalem Post. Full news...
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June 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
UPI: Just over half of U.S. adults favor pulling out of Afghanistan while one-third think U.S. troops should remain, a poll released Thursday indicated. The Harris poll for BBC World News America found 51 percent do not believe U.S. policies in Afghanistan are likely to succeed while 14 percent say they will. Full news...
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June 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
The Associated Press: Gunmen stormed a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan, killing nine people including the groom as they opened fire on a crowd of about 30 family members, officials said on Thursday. The assailants entered a field where the groom and his family members had gathered late on Wednesday night in the remote Dur Baba district and started shooting, said Ahmad Zia Abdulzai... Full news...
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June 9, 2011 :: RSS :: Print :: Email
AFP: War may kill thousands of civilians a year in Afghanistan, but choking air pollution in the capital Kabul is more deadly, experts say. Signs of the silent killer -- pollutants emitted by old cars, poor quality fuel and people burning trash -- are everywhere on the city’s chaotic streets. Men walking or cycling usually cover their mouths with masks or scarves to keep out the dust. Full news...
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