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Afghan government officials have proposed reintroducing public stoning as a punishment for adultery, Human Rights Watch said. “Men and women who commit adultery shall be punished based on the circumstances to one of the following punishments: lashing, stoning [to death],”…
Four US soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, hours after the US announced direct talks with the Taliban, reports say. The soldiers were killed by “indirect fire” from insurgents at Bagram air base, US officials said. Bagram, near the Afghan…
At least 70 students and teachers at an all girls school in Takhar province’s capital, Taluqan, northern Afghanistan, have been sickened by an unknown gas that spread through classrooms. School authorities evacuated everyone from the building and many of the…
Britain’s Prince Harry, third in line to the British throne, is serving his country in Afghanistan as a gunner in Apache attack helicopters. No one knows how many Afghan insurgents had he killed during his 20-week deployment, but he did…