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BBC News – Staff at an Afghan television station in the capital, Kabul, have protested against a raid by armed police who allegedly assaulted workers there. Dozens of journalists and Members of Parliament demonstrated outside parliament against the raid. They accused President Hamid Karzai of smothering freedom of speech during …
Read More »U.S. eyes Iran in Afghanistan
By CONSTANT BRAND, Associated Press The U.S. will keep a close eye on Iran’s involvement in Afghanistan following reports that Taliban insurgents used Iranian-made weapons against NATO forces, a senior U.S. official said Wednesday. Richard Boucher, Assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asia, told reporters that Washington would …
Read More »Ban distressed by UN deaths in Afghanistan
AFP – UN chief Ban Ki-moon expressed distress Tuesday over the deaths of five UN contractors in a bomb attack in Afghanistan, as well over mounting civilian casualties in the country. “The secretary general was deeply distressed to learn of the fatal incident which occurred earlier this morning, when a …
Read More »Afghanistan’s Hazaras still await their due
By Raju Gopalakrishnan, Reuters When U.S.-led forces defeated the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in 2001, the Hazaras, a tribe living in the central mountains, cheered the loudest. The mostly Shi’ite Hazaras had been oppressed by the Sunni rulers in Kabul through centuries of tumultuous Afghan history. But when the strictly …
Read More »Afghan rebels targeting civilians: rights group
By Terry Friel KABUL (Reuters) – As the bloodshed in Afghanistan worsens, the Taliban are increasingly targeting civilians, the New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a new report on Monday. The group accuses the Taliban and other insurgents of war crimes in its latest report, “The Human Cost.” “Suicide …
Read More »Civilians ‘main Afghan victims’
By Mark Dummett, BBC News Civilians have been the main victims of insurgent attacks in Afghanistan in the past 15 months, a study has revealed. Even though most attacks have been on military and government targets, most victims have nothing to do with either, the Human Rights Watch study said. …
Read More »Attack kills 10 in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide attacker ran onto a police training ground and blew himself up, killing up to 10 policemen and wounding dozens more Monday in northern Afghanistan, a security official said. The attack happened in the relatively quiet city of Kunduz, said Abdul Hadi, a security official. Hadi …
Read More »Marines killed Afghans after bombing: report
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A preliminary investigation by the military says U.S. Marines killed or wounded more than 40 Afghan civilians after a suicide attack on a convoy last month, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. The newspaper said work by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service would decide whether to call …
Read More »UN envoy calls for dialogue with Taliban in Afghanistan
BERLIN (AFP) – The UN envoy in Afghanistan, Tom Koenigs, urged talks with all the forces in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, to stanch the bloodshed in the country, in an interview published Friday. “If there is to be a chance for peace, we must talk to everyone, including alleged war …
Read More »38 Taliban, NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan
KABUL (AFP) – US and Afghan troops backed by warplanes killed more than 35 Taliban militants during a five-hour battle in a bitterly contested area of southern Afghanistan, the US-led coalition said Friday. Meanwhile a NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldier was killed in a separate gunbattle with rebels …
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