In the beginning of January, Afghan government offices in Kabul, Afghanistan, were stormed by militants after car bomb was set off outside. There were at least 43 deaths in the attack. The attack was said to have lasted at least five hours and broke a period of calm in Kabul, which has been the area of multiple assaults and deadly… Read more »
KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants stormed Afghan government offices in Kabul on Monday after setting off a car bomb, and officials said at least 43 people were killed. The attack lasted at least five hours and shattered a period of relative calm in the Afghan capital, which over the years has been subjected to deadly and audacious assaults by militants opposed… Read more »
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — After the Chinese Consulate in a major Pakistani city was attacked by a squad of suicide bombers last month, Pakistani officials pointed fingers at the commander of a separatist group waging an insurgency in the southwestern province of Baluchistan. On Tuesday, a suicide bomber killed that commander, Aslam Baluch, along with five associates in an upscale neighborhood of Kandahar, in southern… Read more »
India’s army chief said on Thursday that gay sex and adultery would not be tolerated in the army’s ranks, months after a landmark court ruling struck down colonial-era prohibitions against homosexuality and infidelity. After a decades-long campaign by activists the supreme court last year decriminalised Section 377 – also known as “unnatural offences” – and the adultery law from the statue… Read more »
MAZAR I SHARIF, Afghanistan — Violence in northern Afghanistan has intensified in recent days, with both Afghan security forces and the Taliban suffering heavy casualties, but the heavy fighting has failed to shift the battle lines in the 17-year-old war. While many previous winters brought a relative lull to the war, as low temperatures and snow set in, this year… Read more »
In Afghanistan, multiple attacks of terror were conducted which left more than two dozen citizens and officers dead. In the city of Kabul, at least 12 people were killed in the outskirts of the city on Tuesday, when a vehicle wired with explosives was detonated near a convoy of security forces which left at least 12 others wounded. This attack… Read more »
KABUL, Afghanistan — At least 12 people were killed on the outskirts of Kabul on Tuesday when explosives in a vehicle detonated near a convoy of security forces, Afghan officials said, and at least 12 others were wounded. It was the deadliest of several violent attacks across Afghanistan on Tuesday that left a total of more than 30 dead, most… Read more »
KABUL, Afghanistan — One of the boldest efforts to date to stabilize Afghanistan through economic development began on Friday with a ceremonial start to construction on a $22.5 billion natural gas pipeline crossing the country’s war-ravaged south. The pipeline, known as TAPI for its route through Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, taking in some of the world’s most contested land,… Read more »
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani Christian woman who was cleared last week of blasphemy charges after spending eight years on death row has been released from prison but remains under government protection because of threats to her life, officials said Thursday. The woman, Asia Bibi, was released from a prison in central Pakistan and flown to the capital, Islamabad, late… Read more »
KIEV, Ukraine — The terrorist attack in New York on Tuesday was carried out by a young man from Central Asia, a former backyard of the Soviet Union known for poverty, isolation and repressive governments — all elements in breeding some of the most militant Islamist activity in the world. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Islamist insurgencies have erupted throughout… Read more »