Human rights activists reacted to disclosures that the US government is planning to introduce measures to give inmates at Afghanistan’s notorious Bagram prison the chance to challenge their detention.
The Swedish Committee for Afghanistan accused US troops of storming through the charity’s hospital in Wardak province, breaking down doors and tying up staff.
A new report from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime warns of growing links between drug lords and the Taliban insurgency.
Like their counterparts in Pakistan, Afghanistan’s Taliban demonstrate once again that they aren’t above blowing up their cannon fodder at mosques—during Ramadan—to enforce their supposedly purist version of Islam. Now didn’t we hear somewhere, “Do not fight them at the Holy… Read moreTaliban don’t read Koran, do they?
Supposedly temporary restrictions on freedom of expression in the run-up to Afghanistan’s presidential vote are drawing protests from country’s press.
A bomb blast killed at least seven in the Pakistani town of Charsadda. The Taliban claimed responsibility, saying the victims belonged to a tribe that had raised an anti-Taliban militia.
US Marines and Afghan forces destroyed hundreds of tons of opium and heroin in Helmand, in raids that officials say are part of a shift in counter-narcotics strategy.
Maulana Abdul Aziz warned that Pakistan faces a “bloody revolution” unless sharia law is announced nationwide. A bomb blast at the home of another cleric left at least nine dead.
Rights observers in Afghanistan say US forces may have been directly involved in the mass slaying of up to 2,000 Taliban prisoners in 2001 who were sent across the desert in shipping containers.
At least 25 were killed in Afghanistan’s Logar province after a truck loaded with explosives hidden under firewood was remotely detonated. Of the dead, only four were police; 16 were schoolchildren.
Some 4,000 US Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province—a remote area that is at the center of the country’s opium cultivation.
At least 10 militants were killed in another presumed US drone strike on Pakistan’s tribal areas. There have been an estimated 35 US strikes since last August, killing over 340 people.
