Ghazni, Afghanistan — AFP The black mushroom cloud had barely faded in Ghazni province before kids clustered around the edge of the crater created by the mine, one of the devices that kills a child every other day in Afghanistan. Afghans have been able to return to fields, schools and roads since the Taliban authorities […]
Kabul, Afghanistan – AFP The bodies of three Spanish tourists and three Afghans shot dead while visiting a market in Afghanistan were transported to the capital along with multiple wounded, the Taliban government said Saturday. The group was fired on while walking through the bazaar in the mountainous city of Bamiyan in central Afghanist...
Kabul, Afghanistan – AFP Three foreign tourists and an Afghan were killed on Friday in a shooting in the popular tourism destination of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, the interior ministry said. “One Afghan and three foreign nationals were killed,” in gunfire Friday evening in Bamiyan city, interior ministry spokesman Abdul ...
Sydney, Australia – AFP An Australian judge has sentenced a former army lawyer to more than five years in jail for stealing secret defence files on the Afghanistan war and leaking them to the media. David McBride, who pleaded guilty in November to three charges of stealing and sharing military information, was given five years […]
Kabul, Afghanistan — AFP In a frenzy of needlework, a den of Afghan tailors fashion customized suits for Eid-al-Fitr, with bejewelled outfits adding vital sparkle to muted celebrations of the Muslim holiday. At the Crystal Siddiqui shop in northern Kabul, tailors have worked 19-hour days in the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, creating 5,0...
Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan — AFP American traveller Oscar Wells is in Afghanistan for sight-seeing promoted by the Taliban. “It is a unique place, it touches my heart,” the 65-year-old Indiana farmer shared, praising “its magnificent mountains” with “people living in the old way”. Marvelling at the 15...
Former senior military official Gen. Mark Milley has labeled the two-decade-long US-led war against the Taliban in Afghanistan a “strategic failure.” During his testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week, Milley highlighted the inability to establish a nation despite building an army and state infrastructure. H...
Kabul, Afghanistan – – AFP Schools in Afghanistan opened for the new academic year on Wednesday, with girls still remaining out of secondary-level classes for a third year in a row. Taliban authorities barred girls from secondary school in March 2022, after surging back to power in 2021 following the end of decades long US [&hellip...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Kabul summoned the top Pakistani diplomat in the country on Monday after Pakistan launched pre-dawn air strikes inside Afghanistan that killed at least eight people, an official statement said. Interim Afghan Foreign Ministry said Kabul lodged a protest with Islamabad over the attacks. Earlier on Monday, interim Afghan ad...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Afghanistan is one of several countries around the world in the grip of a food crisis, where a mix of politics, economics and nature’s ravages is taking a heavy toll on vast sections of a vulnerable population. In a country emerging from decades of war and turmoil, women and children are among […]
