New security command center in sight to counter Taliban
MAZAR-E-SHARIF (SW) – Analysts believe President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani has in sight a new security operation and command center to counter mounting Taliban assaults in the northern provinces.
Category: Security
War-weary IDPs offered shelters in mosques in Kabul
KABUL (SW) – The Ministry of Haj and Endowments has been directed to open gates of the mosques for the internally displaced families fleeing rages of war.
Taliban capture Fayzabad in Badakhshan
FAYZABAD (SW) – Fayzabad, the capital of Badakhshan province has fallen to the Taliban, local sources told Salam Watandar.
Taliban enter Farah after fierce clashes
HERAT CITY (SW) – The Taliban claimed to have captured many parts of Farah city after which scores of the inmates fled as the insurgents overrun the prison.
Cases of human trafficking on the rise
KABUL (SW) – The justice ministry has noted a notable surge in cases of trafficking of migrants from Afghanistan with the ensuing violence across the country.
Pakistan fails to address basic issues behind torture of Afghan envoy’s daughter
KABUL (SW) – The Afghan government said today that Pakistan has failed address basic issues and identify perpetrators behind the abduction and torture of the envoy’s daughter in Islamabad last month.
Fighting kills 27 children in 3 days
KABUL (SW) – At least 27 children lost their lives to the raging war and 130 more got injured in the past three days alone, said the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) on Monday.
5000 more families displaced by rages of war
KABUL (SW) – The deadly spike in violence across Afghanistan has displaced at least 5000 more families in the past two weeks alone.
Continued fighting would not get the Taliban any legitimacy
KABUL (SW) – The US Embassy in Kabul has warned the Taliban that their continued attacks will not get them closer to the legitimacy they wish for.
12 civilians lose lives to roadside bomb in Paktia
GARDEZ (SW) – At least 12 members of a single family were killed and two others were injured when a roadside bomb exploded in the Sayed Karam district of Paktia province, confirmed officials.
Religious scholars donate blood for ANDSF
JALALABAD (SW) – An array of religious leaders and scholars donated blood for the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces battling mounting assaults by the Taliban.
“Stop fighting and negotiate or there may be nothing left to win”
MONITORING (SW) – Deborah Lyons, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Afghanistan has warned that the escalating violence was fast moving into the violence the world saw in Syria and Sarajevo.
