Afghanistan Is Trying to Save Its Child Bombers
In a room full of loud teenagers, 17-year-old Mohammad Ehsan is the quietest. (The names of the boys in this piece have been changed to protect their identities.) The other boys in this juvenile ...
Doctors and activists are redoubling their efforts to curb a violent and still pervasive custom that violates women’s rights.
Afghanistan’s centenary Independence Day celebrations on Monday were marred by explosions in the eastern city of Jalalabad, which wounded scores. The attacks came as Afghans were still reeling from the brutal ISIS attack on a wedding celebration in Kabul two days earlier, which killed 63 civilians and injured 185. The Afghan Health Ministry said 66...
The day after a horrifying suicide attack that killed 63 guests at a Kabul wedding, there was a crowd of people outside the emergency trauma hospital, desperate for news of their missing loved ones. The explosion on Saturday evening, which has been claimed by ISIS, targeted a Hazara Shiite minority wedding with more than 1,000 guests...
As election campaigning for the already delayed presidential elections in Afghanistan move into full swing, citizens worry about growing incidents of violence following threats from the Taliban. In a statement issued earlier this month, the insurgent group called the elections a “deceiving process”, and announced that they “shall exert utmost efforts in its prevention” by targeting political...
The US is preparing an agreement with the Afghan government to reassure Kabul that an American peace deal with the Taliban will not lead to the group reclaiming power after foreign troops withdraw. Kabul is seeking continued US support for Afghan security forces, and for some American troops to remain and fight other insurgent groups,...
Worsening violence and threats against campaign rallies have left Afghans fearful of heading to the polls next month for the presidential election. The official campaign season started on July 28, but was immediately beset by deadly violence when President Ashraf Ghani’s running mate Amrullah Saleh was targeted in an attack in Kabul that killed at...
The political campaign for the September 28 presidential election in Afghanistan got a bloody start on July 28 when the office of vice-presidential candidate Amrullah Saleh came under attack. Mr. Saleh, a former intelligence chief and President Ashraf Ghani’s running mate, survived the attack, which killed at least 30 people. He was rescued from the building when...
An explosion during Kabul’s busy rush hour on Sunday targeted the office of President Ashraf Ghani’s running mate on the first day of campaigning for September’s elections. The office of Amrullah Saleh’s Green Trend Movement was hit with what a party member said was a “complex, ongoing attack” that began with the detonation of a...
The Afghan Taliban and ISIS carried out bomb attacks in Kabul on Thursday that killed at least 11 people including a Nato soldier and injured scores of civilians. Interior ministry spokesman Nasrat Rahimi said a suicide bomber on a motorcycle rammed into the Nato convoy at about 8am near the Green Village, a compound on...
An investigation by Afghanistan’s spy agency this month led to the arrest of four ISIS recruiters, three of whom were teachers at the country’s largest university, raising questions about the ability of extremists to operate in the capital and recruit from the country’s young students. Of the three suspects, Mubashir Muslimyar was a lecturer, while...
