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News Source: Voice of America
| about 1 year ago
Afghan police say gunmen on motorbikes have killed a foreign woman who worked for an aid agency in Kabul. Officials say the woman gunned down early Monday in the Afghan capital is believed to be from South Africa. Taliban insurgents have increasingly...
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News Source: CNN
| about 1 year ago
Gunmen on a motorbike fatally shot a foreign aid worker Monday who was on her way to work in Kabul, the Afghan Interior Ministry said. There were conflicting reports about the aid worker's nationality. The British Foreign Office identified the woman...
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News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
A British woman working for a Christian aid group was shot dead on the street in Kabul this morning by Taleban militants who accused her of spreading Christianity. The woman, a member of staff with the Christian charity Serve Afghanistan, was gunned...
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News Source: The Daily Telegraph
| about 1 year ago
Afghan capital Kabul today in a killing claimed by the Islamic Taliban militia which accused her organisation of "preaching Christianity." The woman was shot several times by two men on a motorbike as she walked to work in the west of Kabul, the...
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
General Ali Shah Ahmadzai, Kabul's deputy police chief, also said a member of Afghanistan's royal family was abducted late on Sunday. The incidents seemed to reflect the growing effort by Taliban insurgents and their allies to challenge the...
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News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 year ago
The attackers, who were riding on motorbike, fled the area following the shooting, said Zemarai Bashary, interior ministry spokesman. Bashary declined to provide more information or identify the victim. But a police official, who did not want to be...
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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| about 1 year ago
The South African woman worked with handicapped Afghans and was killed in the western part of Kabul as she was walking alone around 8 a.m., said Najib Samsoor , a district police chief...Embassies, military bases and the U.N. are erecting cement wall...
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News Source: Gulf News
| about 1 year ago
The woman was from South Africa, an intelligence official said, but other officials said they were unable to confirm her nationality. Two men on a motorbike shot the woman in a southern district of Kabul, the private Tolo TV station said. Taliban...
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News Source: Guardian Unlimited
| about 1 year ago
Asadullah and his fellow 55 passengers are taking a ride along the 483-km highway that many believe is the most dangerous stretch of road on the planet. Afghanistan's two largest and most economically vital cities - and completed almost five years...
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Taliban insurgents pulled some 50 passengers off a bus in southern Afghanistan and beheaded as many as 30 of them after accusing them of being soldiers traveling in civilian clothes, Afghan officials in the region said Sunday. The police chief of...