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12 April 2019 by AFP
ICC judges reject the investigation in Afghanistan This is another blow for the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. On April 12, ICC judges have rejected her request to investigate crimes committed in Afghanistan. It is « not in the interests of justice », they said. T [...]
22 July 2018 by AFP
Suicide attack at Kabul airport leaves 11 dead, 14 wounded: officials A suicide bomber killed at least 11 people and wounded 14 at the entrance to Kabul international airport on Sunday, officials said, as scores gathered to welcome home Afghan Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum from exile. Senior go [...]
5 February 2018 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
Afghanistan: NGO urges ICC not to forget Guantanamo crimes A human rights NGO has called on the International Criminal Court (ICC) to extend its likely investigations on Afghanistan to crimes committed at Guantanamo. On November 20, 2017, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda asked the court’s  j [...]
23 January 2018 by Human Rights Watch
Kabul Hotel Attack a "War Crime", says HRW This weekend’s attack on the Intercontinental Hotel was just the latest in a long string of incidents targeting civilians in Afghanistan. Those who ordered or carried out this serious violation of the laws of war are responsible f [...]
4 November 2017 by Stéphanie Maupas, correspondent in The Hague
ICC Prosecutor targets Taliban and US crimes in Afghanistan International Criminal Court Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda is about to ask Court permission to investigate crimes committed in Afghanistan and secret CIA prisons in Europe, she announced on November 3. “In due course, I will file my r [...]
30 August 2017 by Patricia Gossman
Agony of Afghanistan’s Enforced Disappearances, according to HRW As the world marks International Day of the Disappeared on August 30, learning the fate of the tens of thousands of Afghans who have been victims of enforced disappearance over the past four decades seems ever more remote. For the [...]
29 August 2017 by Mark Kersten
Pre-Meditated Madness, the International Criminal Court, and Preliminary Examinations Attention among observers and scholars of international criminal justice has increasingly focused on what happens before the International Criminal Court (ICC) intervenes in a situation and issues arrest warrants for perpetrators [...]
17 July 2017 by AFP
Afghan civilian deaths hit new high: UN The people of war-torn Afghanistan continue to bear the brunt of the grinding conflict with civilian deaths at their worst since records began, the United Nations said Monday. Deaths in the capital Kabul accounted for nearly 20 pe [...]
15 April 2017 by AFP
IS death toll hits 90 from huge US bomb in Afghanistan The death toll from the American military's largest non-nuclear bomb nearly tripled Saturday, with Afghan officials saying at least 90 Islamic State fighters were killed, as US-led forces conducted clean-up operations over the rug [...]
14 April 2017 by AFP
Huge US bomb kills dozens of IS militants: Afghan officials The US military's largest non-nuclear bomb killed at least 36 militants as it decimated a deep tunnel complex of the Islamic State group, Afghan officials said Friday, ruling out any civilian casualties. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordna [...]
10 February 2017 by AFP
Hunt for two Red Cross workers after deadly Afghan ambush The Red Cross was desperately searching for two employees who went missing after their convoy came under insurgent fire in northern Afghanistan, leaving six other workers dead, the charity said Friday. The workers were ambushed in [...]
24 January 2017 by AFP
Afghanistan orders arrest of vice-president's guards in abuse case Afghanistan's attorney general has ordered the arrest of nine bodyguards of Vice President Abdul Rashid Dostum for sexually abusing and torturing a rival, an official said Tuesday. Dostum, a former warlord who has a catalogue of w [...]
29 December 2016 by AFP
Russia, Iran ties with Taliban stoke Afghan anxiety Allegations over Russia and Iran's deepening ties with the Taliban have ignited concerns of a renewed "Great Game" of proxy warfare in Afghanistan that could undermine US-backed troops and push the country deeper into turmoil. Mos [...]
17 December 2016 by AFP
Gunmen kill five female airport workers in Afghanistan Gunmen on motorcycles shot dead five female airport workers and their driver in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, underlining the dangers facing employed women in the conservative, conflict-torn country.  The women, employees of a [...]
30 November 2016 by AFP
Rebuilding history? Debate rages over lost Afghan Buddhas For centuries they stood, two monumental ancient statues of Buddha carved into the cliffs of Bamiyan, loved and revered by generations of Afghans -- only to be pulverised by the Taliban in an act of cultural genocide. It felt like [...]
29 September 2016 by AFP
'Butcher of Kabul' calls for peace as signs Afghan pact Notorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar called for peace as he appeared by video to sign a deal with President Ashraf Ghani Thursday, marking a symbolic victory in Kabul's struggle to revive talks with the Taliban. The deal p [...]