Ghani condemns attack on yet another government official
President Ashraf Ghani has condemned the attack on Ayub Gharwal, deputy head of Paktia Provincial Council, who was gunned down on Saturday in Gardez city. In a statement issued by the Presidential...
View ArticleA grim day of assassinations and bombings for Afghans
Targeted assassinations and roadside IED blasts rattled Afghanistan Saturday after a number of incidents were reported throughout the day around the country. Dozens of civilians were killed or wounded...
View ArticleRights watchdog raises concern over increase in targeted killings
The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) has expressed deep concern over increasingly frequent targeted civilian killings across the country. In a statement released Sunday, the...
View ArticleTwo arrested in connection with Ghazni journalist’s assassination
Special Forces from the Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) have arrested two men in connection with the assassination of slain Afghan journalist Rahmatullah Nikzad, the spy agency said in a...
View ArticleThree suspects arrested for Yousuf Rashid’s assassination
Three suspects have been arrested in connection with the assassination of Yousuf Rashid, CEO of Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA), the Ministry of Interior confirmed Saturday....
View ArticleThree suspects in assassination of FEFA head confess to being Taliban
Three suspects arrested for the targeted assassination of Yousuf Rashid, CEO of Free and Fair Election Foundation of Afghanistan (FEFA), have confessed to being Taliban members, the ministry of...
View ArticleQatar condemns killing of two Supreme Court judges
Qatar strongly condemned the killing of two female judges who were targeted while driving to court on Sunday in Kabul. In a statement issued by Qatar’s Foreign Affairs Ministry on Sunday night, Doha...
View ArticleTwo more explosions rattle Kabul amid growing outcry
Kabul was rattled by two explosions on Monday morning, amid a surge in targeted killings and attempted assassinations that have prompted a strong outcry among the international community. The first...
View ArticleKabul University lecturer killed in IED explosion
A university lecturer was killed in a targeted IED explosion in Kabul city late Thursday morning. Police confirmed the incident, which happened at about 11.25 am in PD3, close to Kabul University and...
View ArticleJapan condemns targeted killings, calling for a reduction in violence
Japan’s Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, on Tuesday condemned targeted killings and bombings in Afghanistan and called for a reduction of violence in the country. The Afghan Ministry of Foreign...
View ArticleGunmen kill three female TV employees in Nangarhar
Armed men gunned down three female employees of Enikaas TV in Jalalabad city on Tuesday, officials confirmed. Officials at the TV network have confirmed that three of their employees were attacked at...
View ArticleWell known cleric shot dead in Kabul while on his way to mosque
Faiz Mohammad Fayez, former head of the Ulema Council in Kunduz province, was shot dead by unknown gunmen in PD17 of Kabul city early Wednesday morning, Kabul police confirmed. Police said an...
View ArticleEU Parliament worried about ‘eruption of violence’ in Afghanistan
The EU has condemned targeted killings of journalists, human rights defenders, and civil society representatives and continuous violence in Afghanistan and called for an immediate ceasefire. In a...
View ArticleHekmatyar accuses govt of being party to targeted attacks
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, the leader of the Hizb-e-Islami Party, has accused the government of being involved in targeted attacks across the country. In an interview with Ariana News, Hekmatyar threatened...
View ArticleAFJC calls on UN Security Council to step up efforts to protect Afghan...
The Afghanistan Journalists Center (AFJC) and 40 other civil society organizations from around the world have called on the UN Security Council and UNAMA to support the media community by calling on...
View ArticleAmnesty International slams govt for not protecting human rights defenders
Amnesty International (AI) on Tuesday blasted the Afghan government for not having delivered on their pledge to establish a functional body dedicated to protecting human rights defenders in...
View ArticleDiplomatic outcry over shootings of 3 female polio workers
Foreign partners in Afghanistan condemned the “brutal” killing of three female employees of the national polio vaccination campaign who were gunned down in two separate incidents in Nangarhar province...
View ArticleWave of threats and killings has sent ‘chilling message’ to Afghan media
Taliban forces are deliberately targeting journalists and other media workers, including women, in Afghanistan, Human Rights Watch said this week. “A wave of threats and killings has sent a chilling...
View ArticleDriver of high-ranking official killed in Kabul in targeted attack
One person was killed and another was wounded in an armed attack on a vehicle carrying security guards of the deputy head of the Senate’s secretariat in Kabul on Saturday evening, police said....
View Article10 killed in targeted attacks in 24 hours
At least ten people have been killed in targeted assassinations in the past 24 hours in the country, the Interior Ministry said Saturday. According to the Ministry, seven people were killed in four...
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