Category: Afghanistan

This should come as no surprise to anyone.

ISIS has claimed responsibility for a series of explosions that were targeted at journalists and medics in Kabul.

A suicide bomber targeted a group of Sikhs and Hindus on their way to meet Afghanistan’s president in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, killing at least 19 people.

A bomber killed at least seven people in an attack on a gathering of the country’s top Muslim clerics, on the same day the organization declared an Islamic ruling against suicide attacks.

President Donald Trump’s airstrikes over Afghanistan are having the successful effect of putting Taliban heroin operations on the run.

A prayer leader of a mosque was killed when a landmine he was planting in this capital city of western Ghor province went off accidentally.

Because free and fair elections — individual rights — are unislamic. The message is clear: purple fingers (remember that?) get blown off.

Respect it, infidels.

U.S. troops deploying to Afghanistan were taught for years that child sex abuse is a “culturally accepted practice” in the country, and were provided no guidance that it constituted a violation of the law and human rights until late 2015.

Muslims in Afghanistan brutally and horrifically cut off an elderly woman’s limbs, just before they murdered her.

The International Committee of the Red Cross has been forced to dramatically decrease its presence in Afghanistan, thanks to the ongoing and escalating swell of terrorist attacks.

President Trump has a fatwa on his head.

Trump has been McMastered.

Iran is making terror inroads in Afghanistan, and becoming a key playing in the transfer of funding and weapons from Russia to Taliban terrorists.

Hundreds of such outposts of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a front-line force armed and funded with U.S. taxpayer dollars, and other pro-government militias are believed to have enslaved young boys for dancing and sexual companionship, many of them kidnapped.

Afghan police have arrested human traffickers for trying to ship kidnapped kids to the Taliban to be used as suicide bombers.

John Lindh, imprisoned “American Taliban” extremist, has only moved more radical in jail — and now gives “cautious support” for ISIS.

How are our soldiers supposed to distinguish the jihadists from people on our side? Trump must change this — but he hasn’t yet.

An increasing number of Taliban terrorists are jumping ship and swearing loyalty instead to ISIS.

Three American Sons were murdered by a jihadi they were ordered to trust and train.

Ghor is a remote mountain province 400 km west of the capital Kabul. The Taliban and other armed groups are active, and state control is weak. It’s also one of the least-developed provinces in Afghanistan: child marriage is common, and “honour killings” – often women trying to flee marriages they were forced into – are frequent.