Reports

06 Mar 2012 08:11 Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 0800 GMT on Tuesday. KABUL - A homemade mine killed two insurgents and their two children in the southern Helmand province on Monday, the interior ministry said…

Kabul, March 5, 2012—The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has opened a new maternity hospital in eastern Khost Province in Afghanistan, which will provide pregnant women in the region with desperately…

Interview During this transition period and the eventual drawdown of international forces, ICRC Head of Delegation Reto Stocker reflects on the major humanitarian challenges and the situation for ordinary Afghans caught up in conflict. How do you see…

JALALABAD, 27 February 2012 (IRIN) - The Pakistani army and intelligence service are increasingly harassing Afghan migrants and refugees living in Pakistan's tribal border area, in an attempt to drive them out of the country, Afghans…

JALALABAD/SARACHA, 27 February 2012 (IRIN) - Baswra squats on a dirty street corner in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, watching fellow Afghans walk by with packages of assistance from aid agencies. When the door to…

by Matt Pennington It’s been quite a month for those of us following the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan. On February 3, the New York Times exposed one of the terrible tragedies of this year’s abnormally harsh winter:…

KABUL, 24 February 2012 (IRIN) Thousands of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Afghanistan, mainly from the strife-torn southern provinces, have been heading for Kabul in the hope of finding work and a better life, but most end…

To the casual observer the thousands of caves that dot the sandstone cliffs of the ancient Afghan city of Bamiyan hearken to another era, when monks visiting the region's famous Buddha statues took residence there. But for…

Afghans fleeing war find misery in urban slums Half a million Afghans displaced by fighting are struggling to survive in makeshift shelters let down by their government and international donors that look the other way, Amnesty…

Following reports that at least 28 children living in camps near Kabul have already died because of freezing temperatures, Save the Children is warning that even more could die from cold in what is Afghanistan's worst…