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US envoy heads to Qatar to press Taliban for end to offensive

INTERNATIONAL The United States envoy on Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, “will press the Taliban to stop their military offensive” at talks in Qatar’s capital this week, the Department of State announced after the armed group seized a string of Afghan provincial capitals. The department said in a statement on Monday that several planned rounds of meetings were scheduled over three days to discuss the situation in Afghanistan. “Ambassador Khalilzad will be […]

today10 August 2021

International News

Rockets land near Afghanistan president house during Eid prayers

Rockets have landed near the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul during prayers for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, officials and media reports say. There were no immediate reports of injuries, according to the Reuters news agency, citing local media reports on Tuesday. It was not immediately clear who was behind the attack. President Ashraf Ghani continued with the prayers despite multiple loud explosions in the area, TV images showed. […]

today20 July 2021

International News

Gunmen kill four polio workers, wound three in Afghanistan’s east

Four polio vaccination workers have been killed and three others injured in separate attacks in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad, a provincial health department official said, in the latest in a series of attacks against health workers. A wave of assassinations has hit urban centres since peace talks began between the Taliban and the Afghan government last year in Doha, many of them targeting government employees, health workers, media and […]

today15 June 2021

International News

Fighting erupts in Afghanistan after US pullout deadline

Afghanistan’s security forces have fought back a Taliban offensive in southern Helmand province, officials and residents have said, as the armed group launched assaults around the country after a missed United States deadline to withdraw troops. Attaullah Afghan, the head of Helmand’s provincial council, said the Taliban had launched its offensive on Monday from multiple directions. The group attacked checkpoints around the outskirts of the provincial capital, Lashkar Gah, taking […]

today5 May 2021

International News

Trump’s air strikes in Afghanistan dramatically increased civilian deaths: Report

In 2019, air strikes from the US and its allies in Afghanistan killed 700 civilians, more than in any other year since the beginning of the war in 2001 and 2002, according to new research from Brown University's Cost of War project. The new data casts light on US President Donald Trump's aerial warfare policies across the Middle East and in countries neighbouring the region, which have become less restricted […]

today9 December 2020

International News

Australia special forces troops face sack for unlawful killings

Australia has told 13 special forces soldiers that they face dismissal in relation to a report on alleged unlawful killings in Afghanistan, the head of the country’s army said on Friday. Lieutenant General Rick Burr, the head of the Australian army, said the soldiers have been issued with “administrative action notices,” which would terminate their service in two weeks unless they successfully appealed. A years-long investigation last week reported that […]

today27 November 2020

International News

UN calls for continued Afghan aid ahead of donor conference

UN refugee chief Filippo Grandi has urged the international community to remain committed to Afghanistan, calling for greater support for refugees and internally displaced people ahead of the opening of a two-day international donor conference. The UNHCR chief said on Monday that the future of millions of Afghans depends on the outcome of peace negotiations between the Kabul government and the Taliban being held in the Qatari capital Doha and […]

today23 November 2020

International News

Australia finds evidence of war crimes in Afghanistan inquiry

Australia said on Thursday that its special forces were suspected of being responsible for 39 unlawful killings in Afghanistan, as it released a long-awaited report into alleged war crimes committed in the South Asian nation. Australia launched the inquiry in 2016, amid reports from whistle-blowers and in the local media of the alleged killing of unarmed men and children that the government initially tried to suppress. Detailing the findings, General […]

today19 November 2020

International News

Rockets hit near main diplomatic district in Kabul: Official

Several mortar shells slammed into various part of Kabul on Tuesday morning, wounding at least 10 civilians, shaking the main diplomatic district and sending foreign embassies into lockdown, officials and sources said. Fourteen rockets were fired from two vehicles in Kabul, interior ministry spokesman Tareq Arian said, adding that two suspects had been arrested. "Most of these rockets have hit civilian houses in Kabul," Arian said. "Unfortunately, 10 civilians including […]

today18 August 2020

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