KABUL militants committed “serious human rights violations” during their brief occupation of Kunduz City, the capital of northeastern Kunduz province. The 18 page investigative report by the AIHRC is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, affected people, local influential individuals, hospital…
A high-level fact-finding commission tasked with investigating the fall of Kunduz City on Monday assured to get to the bottom of the northern province’s security shortcomings, insisting their findings should be start of the next steps by the…
Refugee and Repatriation Minister Syed Hussain Alemi Balkhi on Sunday put the number of people displaced by the conflict from nothern Kunduz to other provinces at more than 100,000 individuals. Talking journalists in Kabul, Balkhi said a special…
The education career of as many as 138,000 students remains in quandary as security situation could not be fully restored in northern Kunduz province. Officials at the education department say 119 schools were active before Taliban captured Kuduz…
Balkh Governor Atta Mohammad Noor on Saturday alleged Kunduz City, the capital of northern Kunduz province, had fallen to the Taliban due to bad governance and mismanagement. During a farewell ceremony for outgoing Deputy Governor Zahir Wahdat in…
President Ashraf Ghani, who met elders from northern Kunduz province, on Thursday appointed a high-level fact-finding delegation to review the troubled province’s security situation. The delegation comprising Amrullah Saleh, a former head of the National Directorate of Security,…
President Ashraf Ghani, who met elders from northern Kunduz province, on Thursday appointed a high-level fact-finding delegation to review the troubled province’s security situation. The delegation comprising Amrullah Saleh, a former head of the National Directorate of Security,…
Some of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from northern Kunduz province have been infected with diarrhea and pneumonia diseases in a refugee camp in Takhar province, an official said on Thursday. One of the IDPs, Amina, told Pajhwok…
KABUL’s advances in northern Kunduz province have worried Russia and central Asian countries. The Taliban captured Kunduz City, the capital of northern Kunduz province which borders Tajikistan, last week and ruled the city for three days before they were pushed…
KABUL militants soon. Atmar was talking to European Union Special Representative in Afghanistan Franz-Michael Skjold Mellbin at the former’s office, a statement from Atmar’s office said. The meeting discussed relations between Afghanistan and the European Union (EU), recent insecurity incidents…
Taliban torched a marketplace and two private banks in Kunduz City, the capital of northern Kunduz province, and recaptured some areas, residents and provincial council members said on Tuesday, but security officials flatly rejected the claims. Amruddin…
Security officials on Monday claimed clearing the remaining areas of Kunduz City, the capital of northern Kunduz province, from Taliban militants, putting the Afghan national flag back up at the governor’s house. The Taliban captured Kunduz City last…
Militants kidnapped a man along with three sons in eastern Kunar province, where eight people were wounded in a traffic incident in Watapur district, an official said on Monday. Police chief Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Syedkhel told Pajhwok…
The current insecurity situation and recent airstrikes on a Doctors with Borders hospital have left doctors and health workers with no option but to leave northern Kunduz province. He and some of his friends left Kunduz as the…
Afghan security forces cleared the Bala Hisar fortress and the National Directorate of Security (NDS, officials said on Sunday. Afghan commandos, who recaptured the two important locations during an operation launched at 2am, were advancing in accordance…
Afghan security forces cleared the Bala Hisar fortress and the National Directorate of Security (NDS, officials said on Sunday. Afghan commandos, who recaptured the two important locations during an operation launched at 2am, were advancing in accordance…
Afghan traders on Sunday urged the warring factions in northern Kunduz province to suspend fighting to allow them to deliver humanitarian aid they had collected for the people in need. They said they have collected $300,000 for Kunduz…
A youth group on Sunday said more than 600 displaced families from northern Kunduz province had arrived in central capital Kabul. Sayed Obaidullah Hashemi, the National Assembly of Afghanistan’s recent actions in Kunduz were anti-Islamic and inhumane and…
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), also known as Reporters Without Borders, has condemned the bombing of its hospital in Kunduz province as a grave violation of international humanitarian law. A dozen MSF staff members and at least seven patients,…
A day after US military airstrikes heavily hit its hospital, the Doctors without Borders charity on Sunday pulled out its staff from northern Kunduz province. The Saturday’s pre-dawn airstrikes killed at least 19 people inside the hospital in…
KABUL Governors Association (AGA) on Sunday slammed the dismissal of Kunduz Governor Mohammad Umar Safi as unjust before the completion of an ongoing investigation into the fall of the provincial capital. The AGA, however, praised the government’s decision to investigate…
KABUL announced on Thursday. Public Health Ministry spokesman Wahidullah Mayar said the four days of clashes in Kunduz City had resulted in the death of 40 people and injuries to another 340. A day earlier, Public Health Minister told a…
KABUL speaker Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi on Thursday called for the ongoing military operation in the capital of northern Kunduz province to be continued and stressed better administrative management there. Kunduz City fell to the Taliban late on Monday after they…
Chief Executive Officer Abdullah Abdullah has said there is no doubt negligence had been committed in the Kunduz incident and reasons behind the fall would be investigated. Abdullah, who attended the 70th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), was…
