KABUL (Pajhwok): Former president Hamid Karzai on Monday said killing civilians “is an act against all Islamic and human rules and a crime against humanity.” A statement from Karzai’s media office to Pajhwok Afghan News said a number of Afghan...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Sixty-four thousand civilians have been killed and wounded over the past nine years in Afghanistan , with the government lacking strategy for their protection, the Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) said on Wednesday.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Taliban militants on Friday rejected a United Nations (UN) report that blamed the militants for 65 percent of civilian casualties in 2017. The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Thursday released its annual...

KABUL (Pajhwok): As many as 1,372 civilians lost their lives and 2,360 others sustained wounds in violent incidents during the last eight months of 2017 in Afghanistan , the Civilian Protection Advocacy Group (CPAG) said on Wednesday. Announcing...

KABUL (Pajhwok): June proved to be the deadliest month for civilians in Afghanistan during the past 15 years as more than 1,000 people were either killed or wounded in violent incidents across the country, a group said on Monday.

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): Nine members of a family have allegedly been killed during an operation in the Greshk district of southern Helmand province, but local officials reject the claim as baseless. Residents of Greshk said they tried to place the...

LASHKARGAH (Pajhwok): The provincial government of southern Helmand province on Monday confirmed those killed and wounded in recent NATO airstrikes in the troubled Sangin district were civilians including women and children. At least 25 civilians,...

SAR-I-PUL CITY (Pajhwok): At least five civilians have been killed and two others injured by unidentified armed men in Sancharak district of northern Sar-I-Pul province, an official said Monday. Provincial deputy police chief, Col. Enayatullah...

PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Civilian causalities resulting from Taliban attacks have increased in central Logar province, local officials said on Monday, a claim the militants rejected. Governor’s spokesman Saleem Saleh told Pajhwok Afghan News civilian...