Afghan

UN agency voices concern at mounting number of Afghans displaced by fighting

3 October 2006
The United Nations refugee agency today voiced concern about the increasing number of people internally displaced in southern Afghanistan as a result of hostilities between government forces, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and insurgents, with 15,000 families uprooted since July.
SRSG Tom Koenigs in Kabul

UN’s Afghanistan envoy condemns suicide attack in Kabul

1 October 2006
The senior United Nations envoy to Afghanistan has condemned a suicide attack outside the Interior Ministry in Kabul city that reportedly resulted in more than a dozen deaths and wounded over 50 other people.