Archive for December 16th, 2021

Srinagar: Three dead, 11 injured in militant attack on police bus

Three policemen were killed and 11 injured after militants attacked a bus carrying security forces in Indian-administered Kashmir, police officials said. They said three militants fired indiscriminately on the bus near a police camp in Srinagar city on Monday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his condolences, and has sought more details on the attack. The area has been cordoned off, […]

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UN sounds alarm over extrajudicial killings in the Taliban’s Afghanistan

The United Nations (UN) said Tuesday that it was alarmed by continuing reports of extrajudicial killings across Afghanistan, including hangings, beheadings and public displays of corpses. “Between August and November, we received credible allegations of more than 100 killings of former Afghan national security forces and others associated with the former Government, with at least 72 of these killings attributed […]

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US should compensate families of victims killed in drone strike: IEA

The United States military is accountable for killing innocent Afghan civilians through indiscriminate drone strike, and the U.S. government should compensate the families of the victims, said a spokesman for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan [IEA] on Tuesday, Reuters reported. The statement came following the U.S. Department of Defense’s decision on Monday that no military personnel involved in a drone […]

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