Afghan

Photo: UNAMA/Fardin Waezi
UNAMA/Fardin Waezi

Afghanistan: UN mission condemns killing of at least 15 civilians in airstrike

29 September 2016
The United Nations mission in Afghanistan has condemned the killing of at least 15 civilian men and the injuring of at least 13 others, including at least one boy, in an airstrike targeting the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/Da’esh) conducted yesterday in the country’s eastern district of Achin.
Tadamichi Yamamoto, Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Afghanistan and Head of UNAMA, briefs the Security Council.
UN Photo/JC McIlwaine

Avenues for peace in Afghanistan must be explored with ‘utmost urgency’ – UN envoy

14 September 2016
Highlighting the challenges facing Afghanistan due to decades-long violence and instability, the United Nations envoy to the country stressed today that avenues for peace there must be explored with utmost urgency and seriousness.