Afghan father guns down daughter over ‘affair’
In front of 300 villagers, Halima’s father shot her in the head, stomach and waist — a public execution overseen by local religious leaders in Afghanistan to punish her for an alleged affair.
In front of 300 villagers, Halima’s father shot her in the head, stomach and waist — a public execution overseen by local religious leaders in Afghanistan to punish her for an alleged affair.
A civilian cargo plane owned by an American company crashed at Bagram Air Field, north of the Afghan capital, soon after takeoff on Monday, killing all seven people aboard, the U.S.-led military coalition said.
Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan on Saturday announced the start of their annual “spring offensive” against the US-backed government, vowing a nationwide series of attacks as foreign troops withdraw.
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake struck Afghanistan on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said, with strong tremors felt in the capital Kabul and Islamabad in neighboring Pakistan.
A roadside bomb exploded under an Afghan bus southwest of Kabul on Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 22 others in an attack blamed on Taliban militants, officials said.
A NATO air attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed 10 children, officials said Sunday, the latest case of civilian casualties which provoke great anger in the war-torn country.
Barely able to walk even with a cane, Ghulam Rasool says he padlocked his front door, handed over the keys and his three cows to a neighbor and fled his mountain home in the middle of the night to escape relentless airstrikes from US drones targeting militants in this remote corner of Afghanistan.
A helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan has killed five American service members, officials said Tuesday.
A suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday killed eight children and one policeman, officials said, adding the target of the strike was Afghan and international forces.
A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed nine people outside the defence ministry in central Kabul on Saturday during a visit to the Afghan capital by new US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel.
A Soviet soldier from Uzbekistan who went missing in 1980 while serving in the Red Army during the war in Afghanistan has turned up living in the west of the country over three decades later.
Two suicide car bombings in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed two intelligence agents and a police officer, officials said.
A bomb hidden in a water tank ripped through a crowded vegetable market in a mostly Shiite neighborhood in a southwestern Pakistani city Saturday, killing at least 81 people, officials said.
