Xinhua: A huge explosion took place in Kandahar city in southern Afganistan late Thursday, killing at least 11 people and injuring 18 others. Xinhua’s reporter saw military helicopters hovering over the bombing site, which is located at the city’s business center called Aljadid Market. A police official who insisted on anonymity told Xinhua that...
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Archive for October, 2010
Huge explosion rocks Kandahar in S. Afghanistan, killing at least 11
The end game in Afghanistan
The Express Tribune: The US is improvising its policy in Afganistan based on this review and on Obama’s subsequent policy interventions, including the commitment to increase the force level in Afganistan by another 60,000 troops during 2010. Despite these changes no major improvement has occurred in the war against the Taliban in Afganistan. In...
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18-year-old Afghan woman slain in campaign of fear
AP: A gunman lying in wait shot and killed an 18-year-old woman as she left her job at a U.S.-based development company Tuesday, casting a spotlight on a stepped-up campaign of Taliban intimidation against women …. Eight years after the U.S.-led invasion ousted the Taliban from power, fear again dominates the lives of many...
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NATO troops kill 4 Afghans on bus – provincial official
Reuters: Foreign forces opened fire on a bus in southern Afganistan on Monday, killing four civilians and wounding 18 others, a provincial official said. The issue of civilian casualties caused by international forces is an emotive one in Afganistan and undermines support for their presence in the country.
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Family violence leads woman to commit suicide in Herat
PAN: An Afgan woman in an attempt to commit suicide has burned herself in the western Herat province, an official said. Domestic violence has led Shabnam, 25, to commit suicide, her relatives said, as she was in a critical health condition at Herat provincial hospital. Shabnam was brought to the hospital “long after the...
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Hamid Karzai frees Taliban commander kidnapper of British UN worker
BBC NEWS: Akbar Agha was sentenced to 16 years after abducting the trio from the Afgan capital in 2004 and threatening to execute them unless Taliban prisoners were released. Disclosure of the pardon came as the White House threatened to withdraw an invitation to Hamid Karzai amid ongoing anger at his accusations foreigners were...
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Afghan conflict masks preventable child deaths – aid group
Reuters: The world is ignoring the daily deaths of more than 850 Afgan children from treatable diseases like diarrhoea and pneumonia, focusing on fighting the insurgency rather than providing humanitarian relief, Save the Children said on Wednesday. According to the British charity, a child dies in the impoverished, war-torn nation every two minutes –...
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Wikileaks reveals video showing US air crew shooting down Iraqi civilians
The Guardian: A secret video showing US air crew falsely claiming to have encountered a firefight in Baghdad and then laughing at the dead after launching an air strike that killed a dozen people, including two Iraqis working for Reuters news agency, was revealed by Wikileaks today. The footage of the July 2007 attack...
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