Pakistan school attack: Suspects arrested in Afghanistan
Five men suspected of involvement in last months massacre at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan, have been arrested across the border in Afghanistan. The arrests came after Pakistan supplied information to the Afghan government. Afghan officials denied .
Slavers to Warlords: Descriptions of Afghanistans Uzbeks
c) The gatekeeper effect whereby visitors to Afghanistan first arrive in Kabul from the direction of British India (or occasionally Persia) and usually first meet only Pashtuns and Tajiks who then get to describe their Uzbek and Hazara... I remember the allegations that make your stomach turn and heart pound, such as the one about how, at Dostums command, women had been raped and their breasts cut off before they were killed during the siege of Kabul in 1991.
Breaking World News Latest Real-Time Updates
Latest breaking world news updated in real-time by rss feeds.. (Reuters) ��� At least one gunman attacked a guest house popular with foreigners in Kabul on Wednesday killing at least five people, including an American and two Indians, in a bold assault that showed Afghanistan still faces security challenges.. Siege on guesthouse in Kabul ends with 5 dead, 6 wounded, police sayFox News. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi begins key China visitBBC News
US embassy in Kabul under attack ��� Tuesday 13 September.
Coordinated attacks in three areas of Kabul��� Rockets fired at US embassy and ISAF HQ��� Seven Afgans reported killed in attack.. BBC correspondent Quentin Somerville tweeted that a rocket had landed 100 metres from the BBC office in Wazir Akbar Khan that could have been shot over the embassy. He said US marines were on the roof of the embassy and sirens could be. Lotfullah Najafizada, from Tolo News in Afghanistan, tweets: Live blog: Twitter Graphic.
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For the newest freshest videos and news stories of interest to the Counter-Jihad and the Geopolitics of Islam, please click comments and add to, or read what is posted there.. More than 40 people have been killed and dozens injured in a gun attack on a bus carrying Shia Muslims in Karachi, reports say.. Islamic State deputy leader killed in Iraq air strike (BBC, May 13, 2015).. http://edition.cnn.com/2015/05/13/asia/afghanistan-kabul-hotel-siege/index.html.
BBC - The Editors: Reporting Afghanistan casualties
In our coverage of Afghanistan, we at BBC News do not generally report the numbers of Taliban or insurgent casualties and fatalities, because there are no reliable or verifiable source figures available. Without accurate figures, any... Whether these qualify as unsubstantiated in the BBCs view is immaterial because the BBC have carried unsubstantiated stories before, including you may recall, five security officers killed at Delhi airport. This is not about exceptions - it��.
Muslim Who Honor Killed 3 Daughters Forcing Non-Muslims.
Mohammad Shafia was a wealthy Afghan settler living in Canada who arranged to have his second wife and her son murder his first wife and three daughters (all of whom were married to him at the time, because Islam). It was an ugly and brutal... ���Three attackers have been killed. They didnt get the chance to detonate their suicide vests,��� Kabul deputy police chief Sayed Gul Agha Rohani told the AFP news agency. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32732083��.
Afghanistan: Five dead in Kabul siege, including US citizen
A famous Afghan singer, Atlaf Hussain, was supposed to perform at the Palace Park Hotel in Afghanistan when a shooting occurred. Five people were confirmed dead including one US citizen that was at the hotel. After five��.
Haqqani network denies links to ISI: BBC - The Express.
Sirajuddin Haqqani also denied that the network killed Afghan peace envoy Burhanuddin Rabbani. Haqqani said the network, blamed for a string of high-profile recent attacks on Western targets in the Afghan capital Kabul,��.
Kabul mob attack: Women help bury wrongly accused Farkhunda
The coffin of a woman, killed by a mob in Kabul on an apparently false charge, has been carried by women, marking a break with Afghan funeral customs. Hundreds of people attended a funeral for the woman, named as Farkhunda, demanding her killers be .
5, Including American, Killed In Attack On Kabul Guesthouse.
No other details were provided. The Associated Press, citing Afghan police, reported that the siege at the guesthouse was over with five dead, six wounded and 54 people rescued. Reuters, quoting Kabul Police Chief Abdul��.
Not Monsters, but Men
By Lauren WolfeLauren Wolfe is a journalist and director of Women Under Siege, a journalism project on sexualized violence based at the Womens Media Center in New York.. A woman lies in the back of the darkened vehicle, begging for help as five men.
Afghan troops killed in Kabul suicide attack
At least seven Afghan soldiers have died and many were injured after a suicide bomber targeted a bus carrying troops in the Afghan capital Kabul. A second bus was hit by a suicide bomber elsewhere in the city, injuring two soldiers and two civilians.
Afghanistan: 11 dead in Kabul siege, including US citizen
Afghan police say that at least 11 people have been killed in an attack on a Kabul hotel that was packed with foreigners awaiting a concert. The US embassy in Afghanistan has confirmed that a US citizen was killed at the Palace Park Hotel. The police.
Afghan Taliban attack on hotel near Kabul ends ~ Jims.
from BBC 22 June 2012 Last updated at 09:48 GMT --- Kabuls police chief said 15 civilians, including hotel guests, died. All five insurgents were killed. The Taliban claimed the attack, saying the hotel was used by wealthy. AFP news agency photographer Massoud Hossaini, who went into the hotel after the siege ended, told the BBC: All the walls have been torn apart with bullets; all the furniture and all the things that were there like carpets are torn and damaged.
3 police, 1 civilian killed in Taliban attacks in Kabul ��� This.
[Update 10:56 a.m. ET] The Afghan Public Health ministry said one civilian was killed and at least 18 were wounded but none seriously in Tuesdays Taliban attacks in Kabul. [Update 10:09 a.m. ET] Three police officers have��.
Afghan attack: Deadly gun battle in Mazar-e-Sharif
And in December of 2014, Atiqullah Raufi, the chief of the secretariat of Afghanistans Supreme Court, was assassinated by Taliban gunmen in the west of Kabul. The attack in Mazar-e-Sharif comes a day after an American soldier was killed in a fire.
Suicide bomber kills 17 in Kabul, including 5 ISAF troops.
The Taliban have claimed credit for a suicide attack in Kabul today that killed five ISAF soldiers, eight ISAF civilian employees, three Afghan civilians, and a policeman. Three more. The female suicide bomber was described as a ���teen-age girl��� by Pajhwok Afghan News. Over the past year,.. BBC are now reporting that two British contractors (from Fluor Corp) were among the 13 killed in the attack, contrary to early reports that they were all Americans. Devin Leonard��.
Isil-linked teens planned fresh attack in Australia
Five Australian teenagers were arrested yesterday on suspicion of plotting an Islamic State group-inspired terrorist attack at a Veterans Day ceremony that included targeting police officers, officials said.
How the United States is Trying to stop al-Shabab
By David FrancisDavid Francis is a staff writer for Foreign Policy, where he runs the widely-read Situation Report morning email and oversees FPs breaking news blog, The Cable. An award-winning journalist, David has reported from all over Europe.
Afghan Women Defy Mullahs To Bury Murdered Girl
Last Thursday afternoon, scores of clean-shaven men, wearing neat pants and shirts for a visit to the Shah-Do Shamshira mosque, or the ���The King of Two Swords,��� in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan, turned into a violent mob, shouting ���Allahu Akbar��� and .
A Lose-Lose in Aleppo
After capturing important territory in surprise attacks over two days, Assads forces were surrounded by Syrian rebels who killed well over 100 soldiers and captured dozens more, making this time among the costliest days for the regime since the.
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UKRAINE: Officials connected to Ukraines former president are ending up dead under weird circumstances. The most clear cut evidence emerges that pro-Russian rebels were responsible for downing a commercial plane last summer. The BBC: ���A former .
Kabul suicide bomber attacks French school during show
Earlier, at least six Afghan soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber on the outskirts of Kabul - part of a string of attacks by the Taliban. The militants also said they were behind the attack on the school, describing the performance as an insult to.
Kabul attacks - Sunday 15 April | World news | The Guardian
The Taliban said they and other militant groups were behind a coordinated assault in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday which included attacks on the British and German embassies in the heavily guarded, central diplomatic district... Associated Press reports that there are no immediate reports of people killed in the fighting although at least five people have so far been reported wounded. 12.42pm: Reuters... Taliban siege of Kabul blamed on Nato intelligence.
Afghan Taliban publish Mullah Omar biography
After taking Kabul and establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, the biography tells of the arrogant infidel powers of the world who could not tolerate Sharia law and launched a joint military invasion. In a section on his charismatic.
Iraq News Latest Real-Time Updates - NewsBlogged
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) ��� Gunmen stormed a guesthouse in the Afghan capital as it hosted a party for foreigners, and authorities said five people, including an American, were killed during an hourslong siege that ended early Thursday morning... BBC News The struggle between Iraqi government forces and Shia militia against Islamic State (IS) for control of the countrys largest oil refinery, Baiji, is at yet another critical moment. Although it has changed hands��.
An Afghan air force official told Reuters an Afghan soldier killed the three.
A rise in so-called insider attacks in Afghanistan has eroded trust between Afghan and international troops in the final years of the combat mission, which ended in 2014, prompting foreign forces to scale back interaction with their allies. Western.
Taliban Ramp Up Fatal Attacks in #Afghanistan ��� NYTimes.
KABUL, Afghanistan ��� Taliban gunmen and a suicide bomber unleashed a wave of violence in the capital and beyond on Saturday, killing six Afghan soldiers aboard a Kabul bus, assassinating a Supreme Court official and shooting to death 12 men working to. That attack, which killed another police official, was the first in the wave of assaults that have left Kabul feeling under siege.. BBC News - Kabul police chief quits amid rising militant violenceIn Afghanistan.
Afghanistan: Probe into rare Kabul mosque shooting
Police in Afghanistan are investigating a shooting at a mosque in Kabul which left 11 people dead. Four or five gunmen entered the Sufi minority mosque during evening prayers. After initially opening fire, they held each of the victims down and shot.
Afghanistan drone strike kills IS commander Abdul Rauf
A drone strike in Afghanistan has killed a militant commander who recently swore allegiance to Islamic State (IS), officials say. The police chief of Helmand said that former Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Rauf had died in the Nato strike. It emerged.
BBC - Adam Curtis Blog: Kabul: City Number One - Part 6
Online films, text and selected images from Adam Curtis, maker of The Power of Nightmares, The Century of the Self, The Mayfair Set, Pandoras Box, The Trap and The Living Dead.. None of them could have imagined that within five years they, and their ideas, would become one of the main influences that led America into its first military intervention in Afghanistan, supporting the Mujaheddin. One of the... News �� Sport �� Weather �� iPlayer �� TV �� Radio; More���