Bomb Kills Foreign Security Contractors in Kabul Kareem Fahim and Jawad Sukhanyar, The New York Times 20 June 2016     Video: Nepalese security guards traveling by bus were killed by a suicide bomber in Kabul on Monday. The Taliban took responsibility. By THE NEW YORK TIMES on Publish DateJune 20, 2016. Photo by Omar Sobhani/Reuters.  KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban suicide bomber attacked a minibus carrying Nepalese and Indian security

A young man is skinned alive. A sign of new Taliban brutality? Tim Craig, The Washington Post June 11 2016 Image: A member of a breakaway faction of the Taliban guards a gathering in the Shindand district of Herat province in Afghanistan on May 27, 2016. (Allauddin Khan/AP) KABUL — In a remote area of Afghanistan, where thousands of years of hardscrabble tribal culture increasingly mixes with a resurgent Taliban militancy, this is how Fazl Ahmad

U.S. Commander in Afghanistan Apologizes for Bombing of Hospital Mujib Mashal & Najim Rahimmarch 22 March 2016   Image: The remains of the Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, after it was hit by an American airstrike in October. CreditNajim Rahim/Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan — The new commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan issued an unreserved apology on Tuesday to the victims of the United States’

Afghans Protest 'Beheadings of Ethnic Hazara by ISIL': Thousands call for increased security after seven people, including women and a child, allegedly decapitated by ISIL. Shereena Qazi , Al Jazeera 11 November 2015 Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of Afghanistan's capital on Wednesday with coffins carrying the bodies of seven ethnic Hazara demanding justice after their beheadings.  The protests included women and men from Afghanistan's

5 November 2015     Hospitals have protected status under the rules of war. And yet in the early hours of 3 October, the MSF hospital in Kunduz came under relentless and brutal aerial attack by US forces. Patients burned in their beds, medical staff were decapitated and lost limbs, and others were shot by the circling AC- 130 gunship while fleeing the burning building. At least 30 MSF staff and patients were killed. This week, MSF concluded

New Report Reveals MSF Staff's Fruitless Calls for Help as Hospital Came under Fire: Internal Report Offers Details of Medical Staff’s Frantic Efforts to Alert Kabul and Washington, Only to Receive a Text 30 Minutes Later: ‘I’m Sorry to Hear That’ Sune Engel Rasmussen, The Guardian   5 November 2015  Faizabad- As an American gunship unleashed burst after burst of cannon fire on Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, medical

The Islamic State is making these Afghans long for the Taliban Sudarsan Raghaven, The Washington Post 13 October 2015     Image: A man sits with a girl — the only female seen here — in one of the incomplete houses in Amanullah Khan Town, where they and other families have found shelter after being forced from their villages by Islamic State fighters. Andrew Quilty/For The Washington Post Aug. 26, 2015 SAR SHAHI, AFGHANISTAN – When

Taliban End Takeover of Kunduz After 15 Days Rod Nordland, New York Times 13 October 2015     A man injured in a rocket attack by the Taliban in Ghazni on Tuesday, while Afghan forces retook control of Kunduz to the north. Credit - Rahmatullah Alizadah/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban announced that they had withdrawn completely from the northern city of Kunduz on Tuesday, ending their first takeover

Obama is Rethinking Pullout in Afghanistan, Officials Say Matthew Rosenberg, New York Times 14 October 2015     NATO soldiers at the scene of a car bomb on Sunday in Kabul, Afghanistan. NATO has 17,000 troops in Afghanistan; 9,800 of those are from the United States. Credit - Noorullah Shirzada/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images WASHINGTON — With pressure building on the White House to slow or completely halt the withdrawal of American

 Afghan ISIS Branch Makes Inroads in Battle Against Taliban Mujib Mashal, New York Times 13 October 2015 Image: Afghans fleeing their village in the Koh District of Nangarhar Province last month during an operation against Islamic State militants. Credit - Ghulamullah Habibi/European Press photo Agency SORKHROAD, Afghanistan — At least three times a week, Malaika hikes up the mountain, past mulberry and pine trees, to a clearing where she can