Archive for November 5th, 2019

70 dead after gas cylinder explosion sparks fire on Pakistan train

At least 70 people were killed and 30 more injured in a fire that engulfed a train in Pakistan on Thursday morning, after a gas canister that passengers were using to prepare breakfast exploded.

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Blasts claim 14 lives, wound 22 in Afghanistan within 24 hours

At least 14 people including four civilians have been killed and 22 civilians wounded in bomb blasts in the insurgency-battered Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday.

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Afghan air raids kill 6 insurgents in N. Afghanistan

At least six militants were killed as fighting aircrafts pounded a Taliban hideout in Darqad district of Afghanistan’s northern Takhar province on Wednesday, provincial governor’s Spokesman Mohammad Jawad Hajari said Thursday.

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Taliban Attacks Getting More Effective, SIGAR Says

Attacks carried out by Taliban and other insurgent groups in Afghanistan were twice as effective in the third quarter of 2019 than they were earlier in the year, according to a leading oversight authority on Afghanistan that reports to the United States Congress.

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US ramped up strikes in Afghanistan following collapse of Taliban peace talks

The US military ramped up the number of air and artillery strikes it conducted in Afghanistan during the month of September following the collapse of the peace talks with the Taliban after President Donald Trump canceled a Camp David summit with the insurgent group on September 7. US troops carried out 1,113 air and artillery strikes during the month of […]

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Peace Elusive as Kashmir Loses Special Status

Indian Kashmir officially became a federally ruled territory Thursday, nearly three months after New Delhi stripped its decades-old special status, but peace remains elusive in the Himalayan region that has been wracked by a violent separatist insurgency and is the flashpoint of its dispute with Pakistan.

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CIA-Trained ‘Death Squads’ Behind Afghan War Crimes, Says Rights Group

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says CIA-backed Afghan paramilitary forces have “committed summary executions and other grave abuses without accountability” — including extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, and attacks on health-care facilities.

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Taliban Attacks Getting More Effective, SIGAR Says

Attacks carried out by Taliban and other insurgent groups in Afghanistan were twice as effective in the third quarter of 2019 than they were earlier in the year, according to a leading oversight authority on Afghanistan that reports to the United States Congress.

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Pakistani Islamists Converge On Islamabad, Urge PM To Resign

Hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters have gathered in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad, calling for Prime Minister Imran Khan’s resignation over economic hardships.

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11 militants killed, several villages liberated during cleanup operation in S. Afghanistan

A total of 11 militants have been killed in Gizab district of Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province as cleanup operation has been continuing in the restive area, said an army statement released here on Thursday.

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