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A still image from a video posted by the Taliban on social media on December 19, 2016 shows American Caitlan Coleman (left) speaking next to her Canadian husband Joshua Boyle and their two sons. Reuters
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Taliban militants pose with weapons in an undisclosed location in Nangarhar province in this December 13, 2010 picture. (Reuters)
Taliban Not Sending Delegation to Muscat for New Afghan Peace Talks
Kabul, Peshawar – At least eight Taliban militants have been killed in a US air strike in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan news agency reported. The air strike came as Reuters said that representatives of Afghanistan, China, Pakistan and the United States will...Caption:
Gul Meena showed the scars on her face. After she ran away from an arranged marriage, her brother and uncle found her and attacked her with an ax. Credit Jim Huylebroek for The New York Times
Forced Child Marriage … an Afghan Tragedy
Kabul – Afghanistan is a place where all too often a young girl’s dreams die. But not always. So it has been with three Afghan friends, whose unrelated cases were all so awful that they are painful to talk about even now that the three are young women, years...Caption:
Afghan men unload a coffin of an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) employee, who was killed by gunmen in Jwzjan province, at a hospital in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan February 8, 2017.REUTERS/Stringer
Red Cross to ‘Drastically’ Cut Afghan Operations After Attacks
Kabul- The International Committee of the Red Cross will “drastically” reduce operations in war-torn Afghanistan after seven of its employees were killed in attacks this year, the aid group said on Monday. The announcement underlines the deteriorating...Caption:
Afghan policemen keep watch in Mazar-i-sharif, Oct. 12, 2014. AFP file photo