Posted in Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, Fire, Insurgents, NATO/Allies, South Asia, Taliban on August 8, 2011|
VOA News | Moby Media Updates| August 5, 2011
An anti-NATO demonstration in southern Afghanistan’s Zabul province turned violent Friday, when three Afghan civilians and a police officer were shot dead.
Afghan police say they were forced to fire into the crowd after insurgents infiltrated the protest in the town of Qalat and shot and killed a police officer. Officials say three civilians were killed when the police returned fire. (more…)
Posted in Afghanistan, Air Strike, Civilian Casualties, NATO/Allies, Night Raid, South Asia on July 14, 2011|
Fazel Reshad | Asia | CNN News |July 14, 2011
Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) — A NATO-led raid in eastern Afghanistan left six civilians dead overnight, and President Hamid Karzai on Thursday ordered authorities to launch an investigation, Afghan officials told CNN on Thursday.
Mubarez Zadran, a provincial government spokesman, told CNN that the civilians were killed in a residential area of Khost province’s Matoon district and said two others were wounded. (more…)
Posted in Afghanistan, Air Strike, Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Ground Assault, Insurgents, NATO/Allies, Night Raid, South Asia, Suicide Bomb, Taliban, United Nations on July 14, 2011|
By Associated Press| World | Wall Street Journal with Foreign Policy | July 14, 2011
Violence has been on the rise as the Taliban and other insurgents try to regain territory lost in the fall and winter to the U.S.-led coalition in southern Afghanistan. (more…)
Posted in Afghanistan, Bomb, Civilian Casualties, Insurgents, South Asia on July 14, 2011|
By Joshua Partlow and Kevin Sieff | World | Wall Street Journal with Foreign Policy | July 14, 2011
For the distinguished guests clustered on the side of the vast carpeted prayer hall — including Kandahar’s governor and four of Karzai’s brothers — a meal was ready across town at Mandigak palace, where the provincial council meets, the cleric said.
As the guests stood to leave, a bomb hidden inside a man’s turban detonated, killing at least four people and wounding 15 others, according to Afghan officials and witnesses. (more…)
Posted in Afghanistan, Terrorists, tagged Afghanistan, Taliban, weapons, women and children on July 3, 2011|
Ravi Velloor | The Straight Times | Moby Media Group | July 3, 2011
IN Uruzgan, central Afghanistan, two days ago, men approached an eight-year-old girl and told her to take a bag to a nearby police contingent. As the child approached a police vehicle, militants standing at a safe distance detonated the bomb in the bag with a remote-controlled device.
The policemen survived, but the girl was blown to bits. Add one more to the Taliban’s latest strategy of using children and women for suicide attacks.
In the swathe of largely ungoverned territory across the Afghanistan-Pakistan borderlands and beyond, the Taliban are resorting to desperate tactics to catch the patrolling army and policemen off-guard, such as fitting children as young as six with explosive vests and sending them up to uniformed men standing at checkpoints or sitting in police vehicles. (more…)
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