The death toll has risen to 50 with more than 100 others critically injured from a fuel tanker that exploded at a gas station in western Afghanistan on Sunday, according to doctors in the western province of Herat. Since the explosion on Sunday afternoon, 15 more people have died due to a lack of proper health facilities.
Qummergal grimaced as she bared her face to a camera for the first time. But when she saw her portrait, she giggled with delight. ”I can’t believe it’s me,” she said. ”Look at me. It’s wonderful!” Qummergal was registering to vote in Afghanistan’s first elections since the advent of war 25 years ago.
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/ 23 February 2004
Osama bin Laden is still in Afghanistan and is planning further attacks on United States interests, a spokesperson from Afghanistan’s ousted Taliban regime said on Monday. The spokesperson read a statement that rubbishes claims by the US military that they are confident of capturing the al-Qaeda leader by the end of the year.
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/ 25 December 2003
A bomb blast destroyed the wall of a United Nations compound close to the presidential palace in Kabul early on Thursday but there were no casualties, the Afghan security service and international peacekeepers said. The bomb had been placed near the wall of the compound, which is close to the presidential palace.
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/ 10 December 2003
Six children were killed on Friday during an assault by United States forces on a compound in eastern Afghanistan, an American military spokesperson said on Wednesday. It is the second time in a week that civilians have died in action against Taliban and al-Qaeda suspects.
Afghanistan’s children have shown remarkable resilience in the face of war, relying on the support of family and community to deal with the conflict that has plagued the country for more than two decades, according to a joint report by the United Nations Childrens’ Fund and UK-based charity Save the Children.
A suicide bomber in Kabul blows up a bus and kills German soldiers in the latest, deadliest attack on Afghan capital.
In a workshop with soot-covered walls, feeble rays of sunlight struggle against the dust in which 11-year-old Nasser stirs a basin full of sweets destined for other children living, like him, in poverty in Afghanistan.
A series of powerful explosions has torn through a local army munitions depot and destroyed international aid buildings in southern Afghanistan, with one aid worker putting the death toll from the blasts at 32.
Archaeological experts are set to search for another giant statue thought to be buried close to the world famous Bamiyan Buddhas.
Security forces in Afghanistan have confirmed the discovery of a bomb concealed in a child’s remote-controlled car outside a UN guest house in Kabul.
A US Special Forces soldier and 10-year veteran of the West Virginia National Guard was killed in eastern Afghanistan during a skirmish on Sunday afternoon.
The Afghan capital awoke on Friday to a state of siege following an assassination bid against its president, Hamid Karzai, and a devastating car bomb that killed 26 people and wounded 150.
Drought-breaking rains in Afghanistan’s north and west have resulted in a boom in lucrative opium poppy harvests.
The Afghan government and US military on Tuesday began
investigating an apparent accidental bombing of a wedding party in central Afghanistan that locals say killed 40 people.
Only one of the two giant Bamiyan Buddhas blown up by the Taliban is to rebuilt.
A bus carrying people to a picnic area hit a land mine in central Afghanistan, killing 13 passengers and injuring six others, a UN official said on Sunday
Afghan Finance Minister Ashraf Ghani said on Thursday that a move to replace the troubled afghani currency with new bank notes showed the government’s commitment to the independence of the central
bank.
Emergency medical teams are preparing to travel to Afghanistan to treat what appears to be a lethal Ebola-like disease.
Gunmen assassinated Afghan Vice President Abdul Qadir on Saturday, the interior minister said. His driver was also killed but the gunmen escaped.
Afghanistan is still the top supplier of heroin to Europe and produces almost the entire bulk of opiates consumed in central Asia, a top United Nations narcotics official said on Tuesday.
A bicycle bomb aimed at a vehicle carrying Nato-led peacekeepers exploded on Monday east of the Afghan capital, Kabul, wounding at least seven Afghan civilians, some seriously, police and officials said. The remote-controlled bomb was set on a bicycle left on the side of the main road from Kabul to the eastern city of Jalalabad and detonated at about 9.30am.