Afghanistan

A view of women on the streets of Jalalabad, Afghanistan. (file)
UN Photo/Fardin Waezi

Afghanistan: Jalalabad attacks provoke ‘outrage’ and ‘strongest’ condemnation from UN Mission

31 July 2018
Peace and Security

As part of a recent pattern of attacks in Afghanistan, at least 13 civilians were killed and 20 others wounded on Tuesday in Jalalabad, drawing “outrage” and condemnation “in the strongest terms” from the United Nations Assistance Mission in the country, UNAMA.

Afghan journalist Sabawoon Kakar, a Radio Azadi reporter, is laid to rest following a suicide attack in Kabul that killed Kakar along with eight other journalists on 30 April 2018.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

Afghanistan: UN mission condemns deadly attack near Kabul airport

23 July 2018
Peace and Security

The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has condemned Sunday’s terrorist attack outside Kabul’s airport that reportedly killed and injured scores of civilians.

Funeral of civilian killed in a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 2018. The UN mission in the country has reported that a record number of Afghan civilians were killed by warring parties in the first half of 2018.
Fardin Waezi/UNAMA

Civilian deaths in Afghanistan hit record high – UN

15 July 2018
Peace and Security

The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan hit a record high in the first half of the year, despite last month’s unprecedented ceasefire between the Afghan Government and the Taliban, the United Nations reported on Sunday.

Headquarters of the United Nations Mission in Afghanistan.
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

Afghanistan: Bring ‘architects’ of latest ‘appalling’ suicide bombing to justice, says deputy UN mission chief

2 July 2018
Peace and Security

In the wake of dozens of civilian deaths – the most recent, a suicide attack in Jalalabad on Sunday – a high-level United Nations representative on the ground called for “the architects of this appalling crime” to be brought to justice.