Shiites protesting insecurity in Afghanistan hit by explosion in Kabul, killing 6

By Sayed Salahuddin and Sharif Hassan 

November 12 at 10:20 AM

KABUL — A suicide bomber attacked a demonstration by minority Shiites in the Afghan capital Monday, killing at least six people as the crowd protested a spate of deadly insurgent attacks on Shiite communities in Ghazni province, police and witnesses said.

Hundreds of ethnic Hazara Shiites had gathered outside the presidential palace since Sunday night, angry over the government’s inability to stop a string of recent attacks on predominantly Hazara areas of the province southwest of the capital.... Continue Reading...

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Taliban Slaughter Elite Afghan Troops, and a ‘Safe’ District Is Falling

By Rod Nordland
Nov. 12, 2018

SANG-E-MASHA, Afghanistan — One pickup truck after another arrived at the government compound in a district capital in Afghanistan on Sunday, pulling around to the back of the governor’s office to unload the dead, out of sight of panicked residents.

Soldiers and police officers, many in tears, heaved bodies of their comrades from the trucks and laid them on sheets on the ground, side by side on their backs, until there were 20 of them.

The dead all wore the desert-brown boots of Afghanistan’s finest troops, the Special Forces commandos trained by the United States. Four days earlier, the soldiers had been airlifted in to rescue what is widely considered Afghanistan’s safest rural district, Jaghori, from a determined assault by Taliban insurgents.... Continue Reading...

درد یک مادر معترض: او برای همه‌ی شهروندان افغانستان امنیت می‌خواهد.

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