Afghanistan

Marking 7 years since US attack on MSF hospital in Kunduz

Oct 04, 2022 14:02

Back on October third 2015, this Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz was reduced to rubble after being hit by a US deadly airstrike. Some 211 shells were fired in the strike, lasting almost one hour. The charity hospital later announced that 42 civilians including staffers and patients were killed and dozens of others were wounded.
Chomsky: US invasion of Afghanistan was an error

Oct 02, 2022 05:13

American writer, academic and political analyst Noam Chomsky said the invasion of Afghanistan by the United States was an error.
Afghan women chant 'stop Hazara genocide' after Kabul bombing

Oct 02, 2022 04:12

Women from Afghanistan's minority Hazara community have held a protest following a suicide bombing that took place in an educational center and martyred more than 35 people Friday.
Afghan women chant 'stop Hazara genocide' after Kabul bombing

Oct 01, 2022 10:52

Women from Afghanistan's minority Hazara community have held a protest following a suicide bombing that took place in an educational center and killed more than 35 people Friday.
Iran slams deadly terrorist attack on Afghan students, says ready to help Kabul

Sep 30, 2022 12:48

The Iranian Foreign Ministry has strongly slammed as “barbaric” a Friday terrorist attack on an educational center in Kabul which killed at least 33 people, urging the Taliban to provide security for Afghan citizens.
Nearly 20 killed, dozens injured in bomb blast in Afghan capital

Sep 30, 2022 04:19

Nearly 20 people have been killed and dozens of others wounded as a bomb blast ripped through an education center in the Afghan capital Kabul on Friday.
Pentagon silent on overall number of civilian deaths in 2 decades of Afghanistan occupation

Sep 30, 2022 03:47

A recent report by the Pentagon says 12 civilians were killed in drone strikes during 2021 in Afghanistan.
China, Russia call on US to release frozen Afghan assets

Sep 29, 2022 11:35

China and Russia have called on the US to release Afghanistan’s financial assets, seized and frozen by the United States government after the Taliban took over the Asian country last year.
Emergence of terrorist groups poses serious threat to Afghanistan, entire region: Iran's envoy

Sep 29, 2022 09:53

An Iranian envoy to the United Nations warns that terrorism and the emergence of terrorist groups pose a "serious threat" to Afghanistan, its neighbors, the region, and the entire international community.
US military killed 12 Afghan civilians in 2021: Pentagon

Sep 29, 2022 03:01

The US military, which invaded and illegally occupied Afghanistan for almost two decades, killed 12 Afghan civilians in 2021, according to a congressionally mandated Pentagon report, pointing to a tip of an iceberg.