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News Source: The Guardian
| about 1 year ago
So far this year, 29 aid workers, either foreign or Afghans employed by one of the 100-plus agencies in the country, have been killed. In August, three western women working for an American aid organisation and their Afghan driver were shot dead in a...
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News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 year ago
The rapid-fire shooting left the woman crumpled on a sidewalk in front of a residential compound frequented by foreigners, witnesses said. Zemeri Bashary, a spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Interior, identified the woman as a South African...
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News Source: Los Angeles Times
| about 1 year ago
The brazen attack in broad daylight against a woman who works for a Christian aid group sends a chill through foreigners living in Kabul. In northern Afghanistan, a suicide bomber kills seven people...Western military officials consider this an...
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News Source: The Boston Globe
| about 1 year ago
Two Taliban gunmen killed a British woman aid worker in the Afghan capital on Monday, accusing her of spreading Christian propaganda, in an attack that could help further restrict humanitarian activities in Afghanistan. Taliban insurgents have...
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| about 1 year ago
Five children and two foreign soldiers have been killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack in northern Afghanistan, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) has said. The German defence ministry said on Monday the attack had...
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News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Taleban, claimed reponsibility for the attack on behalf of the militants, and said that a dozen foreign soldiers were killed. Violence in Kunduz, to the north of Afghanistan, has been on the increase recently...
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News Source: The Jakarta Post
| about 1 year ago
The dual South African-British national worked with handicapped Afghans and was killed in the western part of Kabul as she was walking to work around 8 a.m., officials said. The gunmen, who were on a motorbike, shot the woman in the body and leg with...
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| about 1 year ago
Afghanistan is a conservative Islamic nation where proselytizing is prohibited by law and where other Christian missionaries or charities have faced severe hostility. Last year, a group of 23 South Korean aid workers from a church group were taken...
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News Source: The independent
| about 1 year ago
A British woman working for a charity in Afghanistan was shot dead today. Aid worker Gayle Williams was killed by gunmen on a motorcycle as she walked alone in the capital, Kabul, at about 8am local time. A Foreign and Commonwealth Office...
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News Source: Times Online
| about 1 year ago
The vulnerability of aid workers in Afghanistan has been a constant source of concern for the many non-governmental organisations which operate in all parts of the country. They are unarmed civilians, and yet they face the same dangers and risk to...