Reports

DATE=10/31/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205392 TITLE=AFGHANISTAN / BOMBING (L) BYLINE=TIM JOHNSTON DATELINE=KABUL CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: IN AFGHANISTAN, THREE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN KILLED AND SEVEN OTHERS INJURED THURSDAY MORNING IN A BOMBING RAID ON NORTHWEST KABUL. AS TIM JOHNSTON REPORTS, THEY ARE THOUGHT TO BE THE FIRST CIVILIAN…

KABUL, Afghanistan (Reuter) - Afghan rivals fought a daylong battle north of Kabul Thursday during which the Taleban-held city was bombed and the militia said another intense bid to break through their lines had been repulsed. As dusk fell, there…

The disaster As the flooding recedes in the six provinces and districts of Phnom Penh along the Mekong river, four other Cambodian provinces have become inundated. In Svay Rieng 10,453 people were affected by floods caused by a freak combination…

(Text: U.S. delegate Linda Tarr-Whelan on women) (2250) United Nations -- The situation of women and girls in Afghanistan requires urgent attention, the U.S. Representative to the Commission on the Status of Women said October 29. Speaking during the General Assembly's Third…

I. OVERALL SITUATION On 22 October, UN Security Council Resolution 865 (1996) on Afghanistan was unanimously adopted, calling, inter-alia for an end to the hostilities, a need to find a political solution to the military confrontations in the country, respect…

DATE=10/29/96 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT NUMBER=2-205262 TITLE=TALEBAN / FIGHTING (L-O) BYLINE=SARAH HORNER DATELINE=KABUL CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: IN AFGHANISTAN, A SENIOR TALEBAN MINISTER SAID TALEBAN FORCES HAVE INFLICTED HEAVY CASUALTIES AMONG TROOPS LOYAL TO THE OUSTED GOVERNMENT IN FIGHTING OVERNIGHT NEAR KABUL. THE MINISTER ALSO WARNED THAT IN THE…

(Fear of compulsory military service main reason for departure) (270) By Wendy Lubetkin USIA European Correspondent Geneva -- A "sharp rise" in the number of Afghan refugees crossing into Pakistan has been observed by the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). According to…

Kabul, 29 October 1996 (RFE/RL) -- Fighters loyal to General Abdul Rashid Dostum tried to push back forces of the Taliban militia today in fighting north of the Afghan capital, Kabul. Taliban spokesman Amir Khan Mattaqi said its forces held…

UNHCR monitors on the Afghanistan=ADPakistan border report a significant upward trend in the number of Afghan refugees crossing into Pakistan. Whereas in early October an average of around 125 new arrivals were counted entering Pakistan each day, we're now…

KABUL (Reuter) - Fresh land and air assaults on Afghanistan's Taleban appear to have failed to significantly dent the purist Islamic militia's positions in Kabul and on the front to the north, witnesses said Monday. Airport sources said warplanes belonging to…