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As the US drops ever more bombs on Afghanistan, local residents scramble to escape their native villages as they turn to ruins around them. Some of those lucky enough to make it out alive recounted their ordeal to RT. With the Trump administration ramping up the protracted 16-year Afghan War, more civilians become trapped in […]
REUTERS/Omar Sobhani Just two days after an ambulance bomb killed more than 100 in Kabul, gunmen attacked an army outpost near one of Afghanistan’s main military academies on Monday, killing five and wounding 10. ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Taliban had claimed the others. The Taliban said their attacks had been a […]
Published time: 27 Jan, 2018 08:36 Edited time: 27 Jan, 2018 08:50 An explosion has hit a central district of Kabul, close to where several embassies and government buildings are located, Reuters reports. Preliminary reports say the explosion occurred close to the building which formerly housed Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry. Local media indicate that there may […]
A Bavarian judge who ordered the crucifix to be removed from the courtroom during the trial of an Afghan migrant has faced a backlash. The defendant says he does not mind being tried under the cross. Klaus-Juergen Schmid, a judge in the Bavarian town of Miesbach, has ordered a crucifix to be removed from the […]
Published time: 20 Jan, 2018 17:21 Edited time: 20 Jan, 2018 17:39 The Intercontinental Hotel in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul is under attack according Reuters, citing an interior ministry spokesman. Attackers have taken several hostages in the hotel, according to local news agency Tolo News who cited Kabul police. The gunmen entered through the hotel kitchen, […]
Half a dozen men from Afghanistan and Pakistan who crossed the US-Mexico border illegally to seek refuge were deported after being cleared of ties to ISIS. Their arrests were cited by local and federal officials to call for increased border militarization. The six men were detained by Border Patrol after crossing the US-Mexico border in […]
Share this article From war-torn Afghanistan to the glitzy Swiss Alps, two Afghan skiers are not only inspiring an emerging tourism industry in their poverty-stricken country, but pushing to make history in the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. In December, two young men from a tiny hamlet outside of Bamyan, northern Afghanistan, will make their annual […]
Published time: 24 Oct, 2017 08:10 Edited time: 24 Oct, 2017 08:10 A 31-year-old German man verbally abused and physically attacked a 15-year-old refugee from Afghanistan. He hit the teen in the head, kicked his head on the ground, and performed a Nazi salute in Vogtland, southwestern Saxony. The incident happened on a train late […]
The world’s oldest refugee, who faced deportation from Sweden, will stay in the country after the court ruled the 106-year-old woman was unfit to travel back to Afghanistan. On Wednesday, the Migration Court of Appeal ruled that Bibihal Uzbeki was in “a very bad state of health, which may deteriorate drastically,” overriding an earlier decision […]
Anja Niedringhaus/AP It’s no surprise that the state of affairs in Afghanistan isn’t what the Department of Defense hoped for as the US enters its 16th year of war with the Taliban, but a new analysis of the $ 70 billion spent trying to shore up the Afghanistan National Security Forces, paints an even more […]
