A bus bomb kills five people in the Capital of Afghanistan and wounding around 10 people. This bus was carrying government employees. The government employees were from the Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission. The organization that took responsibility for the blast was the Islamic State militant group. Explosions are not something that is new to the country of… Read more »
While the US is attempting to rebuild Afghanistan’s infrastructure, afghani security is harassing and stealing from the construction sites. It’s causing the projects to be on hold due to the harassment so there is no more development and Afghanistan will not be able to rebuild. Most of the buildings that were attacked were homes that families lived in and required… Read more »
The Taliban’s elusive one-eyed leader Mullah Omar lived within walking distance of US bases in Afghanistan for years, and American troops once even searched the house where he was hiding but failed to find a secret room built for him, a new biography claims. The account exposes an embarrassing failure of US intelligence, which put a $10m bounty on Omar’s head after… Read more »
The United States has announced it will revoke or deny visas to members of the International Criminal Court involved in investigating the actions of US troops in Afghanistan or other countries. The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said Washington was prepared to take further steps, including economic sanctions, if the war crimes court goes ahead with any investigations of US or allied… Read more »
A report into US efforts to rebuild Afghanistan’s war-damaged infrastructure has called for urgent action after revealing that Afghan security forces have been harassing, abusing and stealing from contractors at military bases. Members of the Afghan national defence and security forces (ANDSF) have held workers at gunpoint and confiscated their equipment, costing the US hundreds of thousands of dollars, a US government… Read more »