KABUL (Pajhwok): A number of Wolesi Jirga or lower house members on Saturday strongly criticized civilian casualties during operations, asking for decisive steps to be taken for preventing innocent human losses. Last week, 23 civilians were killed...

KABUL (Pajhwok): President Ashraf Ghani has sent a high-level delegation to northern Uruzgan province to investigate civilian casualties in recent clashes between local residents and an illegal commander. Shah Hussain Murtazavi, deputy spokesman to...

KABUL (Pajhwok): Besides targeted killings, most civilian casualties occurred last month as a result of air and ground operations by security forces, sparking public concerns. In its latest monthly report, the Civilian Protection Advocacy Group (...

JALALABAD (Pajhwok): At least 15 people, including two Taliban insurgents, have been killed in a special forces’ operation in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Wednesday. Ajmal Omar, a member of the provincial council, told Pajhwok...

KABUL (Pajhwok): The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) on Wednesday said more than 64,000 Afghan civilians were either killed or wounded during the past nine years, with the Taliban causing 70 percent of the casualties.

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...