Tag Archives: Afghanistan

HAGUE – The International Criminal Court (ICC) has said it would examine claims in a BBC documentary that British soldiers might have committed war crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan. The programme, aired late yesterday, includes testimony from police investigators, who told the broadcaster that the government covered up killings of …

PUL-E-ALAM – Research done by Logar’s Civil Society over the past six months reports sexual abuse of “550 children and youngsters” from six schools, Tolo News reported. According to TOLOnews, reporter Sharif Amir visited Logar on Thursday and talked to abuse victims. He said: “The children and youth are not …

KABUL – A Chinese diplomat in Kabul met State Minister for Peace Affairs Abdul Salam Rahimi and discussed the upcoming intra-Afghan dialogue in Beijing on Wednesday. Chinese Chargé d’Affaires in Kabul Wang Daxue met Rahimi and shared details about the preparations for the peace talks among the Afghans in Beijing …

KABUL – The Independent Election Commission (IEC) of Afghanistan has announced that it has halted the vote recount process across Afghanistan. According to a statement released by election commission, the audit and recount process of votes has been stopped until further notice. Aurangzib, an IEC commissioner, said the announcement originally …

ANKARA – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Syrian refugees are not living in humane conditions, Ihlas News Agency reported Thursday. Erdogan criticized the international community and the European Union for not giving Turkey financial and logistical support for constructing housing for refugees in a 20-mile-deep safe zone along …

KABUL – An “ancient and precious” collection of terracotta Buddha heads, believed to have been stolen by the Taliban and transported to the UK, are to be returned to Afghanistan 17 years after their discovery at Heathrow Airport. A Buddha sculpture and nine heads will be sent back to their …

KABUL – The Stars and Stripes reports that the US military would use the largest warplane equipped by laser weapons in the war in Afghanistan. It quoted US military officials as saying on Sunday that the AC-130 Ghostrider gunship flies over Afghan airspace almost every night and is armed by …

KABUL – Afghanistan’s Independent Election Commission (IEC) began the recounting of votes despite opposition by the major election campaign teams here on Sunday. According to the head of the IEC secretariat, Habib-Ur-Rahman Nang, the votes of 8,494 polling stations, out of a total of 26,000, will be recounted, Tolo News …

KABUL – US Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has predicted that American troops, already in Afghanistan for 18 years, would remain in the country “for several more years”. During an Exclusive Interview with ABC broadcast on November 10, Milley noted that, after the September …

TASHKENT – The global terrorist entity, the Islamic State (IS or ISIS) seeks to create a foothold in Afghanistan for militants from Central Asia, Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov said at the 47th session of the Council of the Heads of Security Agencies and Intelligence Services of the …