Afghanistan

Stop sending Afghan refugees back to danger: Amnesty to EU

Oct 05, 2017 10:15

Amnesty International says the European Union is “brazenly” violating international law by forcing thousands of Afghan refugees back to their war-torn homeland, where they face the risks of death, torture and other “horrors.”
Bomb kills six near mosque in Afghan capital

Sep 29, 2017 10:52

An assailant has detonated an explosive device outside a mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killing at least six people.
NATO: Civilian casualties due to missile malfunction in Afghan capital

Sep 28, 2017 05:12

A missile "malfunction" during a US airstrike on the Afghan Capital Kabul has resulted in several civilian casualties, NATO says.
Rockets hit Afghan capital as Mattis, NATO chief arrive

Sep 27, 2017 11:56

Up to 20 rockets have struck the airport and surrounding areas in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul hours after US Defense Secretary James Mattis and NATO’s General Secretary Jens Stoltenberg arrived in the country on an unannounced visit.
Taliban target NATO convoy in Afghanistan

Sep 24, 2017 11:34

Taliban militants have targeted a military convoy of Danish NATO forces in the Afghan capital of Kabul. There have been no reports of casualties among the foreign forces but at least three civilians have sustained injuries.
US training mission in Afghanistan failure from onset: SIGAR

Sep 23, 2017 11:39

An American government watchdog has found several serious flaws in the fifteen-year old US training mission in Afghanistan that has ultimately designed a force unable to provide security in the Asian country.
NATO to decide on increased Afghan deployment in one month

Sep 17, 2017 09:27

Senior authorities in the NATO military alliance have announced that a decision on sending more troops to Afghanistan as requested by the United States will take at least one month to take shape.
Four die in phone market blast in Afghanistan's Khost province

Sep 17, 2017 09:22

Four people have been killed in a powerful explosion at a mobile phone market in Afghanistan's southeastern province of Khost.
CIA seeking authority to conduct drone attacks in Afghanistan

Sep 16, 2017 12:16

The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is seeking authority from the White House to carry out covert drone attacks in Afghanistan and other war zones, along with the Pentagon, which has so far the lead role for conducting such airstrikes in the country.
Germany restarts deportation of Afghan refugees

Sep 13, 2017 11:49

Eight Afghans expelled from Germany arrived in Kabul on Wednesday as Berlin resumed deportations of rejected asylum seekers from the war-torn country months after suspending the process when a huge truck bomb hit the Afghan capital.