December 2011
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President Karzai called for Taleban office inside... →
President Hamid Karzai called for the Taleban to open a political office inside Afghanistan in a bid to retake control of secret US-led negotiations.
Huge loss for one family in ‘attack on all... →
Eight relatives from an extended family — three women and five children — were buried on a hillside overlooking Kabul yesterday after being killed in a single suicide attack.
Suicide attack and explosion kills 48 at Afghan... →
Twin explosions at Afghan shrines on the Shia holy day of Ashura left at least 48 people dead in Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, according to police and a news agency photographer.
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WatchAn explosion ripped through a crowd of Shia worshippers outside a shrine in Kabul, killing at least 55 people and wounding at least 134 more, Dec 6, 2011.
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Carnage in the street as 55 Shia killed at shrine... →
The Times Jerome Starkey in Kabul
The bodies lay mangled in a circle, twisted and torn. Some were caked in blood and dust, others clean. A few were heaped together and hard to tell apart, others lay alone.
All around them was the debris of violent death: limbs, viscera and fragments of bone; sandals, hats, and a yellow plastic bag spilling powdered milk towards a lifeless, punctured hand.
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WatchHerat’s refurbished citadel, bits of the Blue Mosque, a couple of shots of the city and a look inside the Burns Hospital which deals with horrific self-immolation cases. See more Afghan portraits here, images from a motorbike roadtrip to the Minaret of Jam here, and graphic pictures of an American Air Ambulance in Kandahar here.
Kazai overturns sentence of jailed rape victim →
An Afghan woman who was jailed for being raped and then told to marry her attacker by a judge has had her sentence overturned by the country’s president.