UN, partners building roads to reach Rohingya refugees camped in muddy, flood-prone terrain

Nov 11, 2017, at 09:44 am

  New York, Nov 11(Just Earth News): The United Nations migration agency and its partners are rushing to build roads in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar to improve humanitarian access to hilly terrain, where hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees have settled in makeshift camps.

Afghanistan: Car bomb attack kills 1 cop

Nov 11, 2017, at 04:30 am

Lashkargah, Nov 10 (IBNS): At least one person was killed as a car bomb attack rocked southern Helmand province of Afghanistan on Friday, media reports said.

Afghanistan: 2 cops, three Talibans killed

Nov 11, 2017, at 01:37 am

Kabul, Nov 10 (IBNS): During a clash in Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, two policemen and three Talibans were killed on Friday, media reports said.

Pakistan DIG among three police officers killed in Quetta suicide attack

Nov 09, 2017, at 10:56 pm

Quetta, Nov 9 (IBNS) :: A senior police officer was among three officials killed in a suicide attack on Quetta's airport road  on Thursday morning, Pakistan's Geo News reported. .

Six killed or wounded in Afghanistan explosion

Nov 09, 2017, at 10:15 pm

Kabul, Nov 9 (IBNS) : An explosion ripped through a guesthouse in eastern Nangarhar province of Afghanistan leaving at least six people dead or wounded, the local officials said on  Thursday.

ISIS strike kills at least three Taliban militants

Nov 09, 2017, at 07:54 pm

Kabul, Nov 9 (IBNS): A clash between the ISIS and Taliban loyalists resulted in the death of at least three member of the latter's unit in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province, local Khaama Press reported.

Local tribal leader killed in Balkh suicide attack

Nov 09, 2017, at 06:59 pm

Kabul, Nov 9 (IBNS): A local tribal leader was killed in a suicide attack in Afghanistan's Balkh province earlier on Thursday morning, local Khaama Press reported.

Afghanistan: Coordinated Taliban attack repulsed by forces, at least 15 militants killed

Nov 08, 2017, at 07:13 pm

Kabul, Nov 8 (IBNS): A coordinated attack by the Taliban militants were repulsed by Afghan forces in Maidan Wardak province of the country, local Khaama Press reported.

Attacks against places of worship in Afghanistan rise sharply, UN warns

Nov 08, 2017, at 09:47 am

New York, Nov 8(Just Earth News): Afghanistan has seen a sharp increase in attacks against places of worship, religious leaders and worshippers, with civilian casualties since 2016 representing nearly double the cumulative number of the preceding seven years, the United Nations mission in the country said Tuesday in a special report.  

Afghanistan: Gunmen attack TV station in Kabul, 1 killed

Nov 07, 2017, at 09:54 pm

Kabul, Nov 7 (IBNS): Gunmen attacked a private TV sation in Afghanistan's capital Kabul city on Tuesday and left at least one worker dead, media reports said.

Afghanistan: Explosion heard in Kabul, TV station attacked

Nov 07, 2017, at 06:47 pm

Kabul, Nov 7 (IBNS): An explosion was heard near a TV station in Kabul city on Tuesday morning.

UN Security Council calls on Myanmar to end excessive military force in Rakhine state

Nov 07, 2017, at 06:02 pm

  New York, Nov 7(Just Earth News): Strongly condemning the widespread violence in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, which has led to the displacement of over 600,000 members of the country’s minority Muslim Rohingya community, the United Nations Security Council on Monday called on the Government to end the use of excessive military force and intercommunal violence in the region.

Kabul: Curtain shops catch fire, no causality

Nov 04, 2017, at 11:56 pm

Kabul, Nov 4 (IBNS): Curtain shops in Afghanistan capital Kabul city caught fire on Saturday, media reports said.

Thousands of Rohingyas cross into Bangladesh overnight; child malnutrition soars in camps – UN

Nov 04, 2017, at 04:46 am

New York, Nov 3(Just Earth News):As more than 3,000 desperate, tired and hungry Rohingya refugees have crossed into Bangladesh from Myanmar over the past two days, United Nations agencies and their partners are working around the clock to provide urgent life-saving aid and shelter to this latest influx.  

Afghanistan: 7 Talibans killed in clash

Nov 03, 2017, at 10:33 pm

Kabul, Nov 3 (IBNS): At least seven Taliban were killed during clash  in Afghanistan's Arghandab district on Thursday, media reports said on Friday.

Baloch separatist leaders slam Pakistan, promises to make it pay for inhuman treatment

Nov 03, 2017, at 06:39 pm

Quetta, Nov 3 (IBNS): Going on the offensive, Baloch separatist leaders, who regularly slam Pakistan, have upped the tempo and have promised to make  the country's government to pay for the inhuman treatment being meted out to the ethnic community.

Afghanistan: Air, artillery strikes kill at least 11 Taliban militants

Nov 03, 2017, at 06:18 pm

Lashkargah, Nov 3 (IBNS): At least 11 Taliban militants were killed by air and artillery strikes conducted by the Afghan forces in Helmand province, local Khaama Press reported.  

Diarrhoea-related diseases claim lives of 26 children each day in Afghanistan – UNICEF

Nov 03, 2017, at 09:37 am

New York, Nov 3(Just Earth News): Although the number of children under five years dying from diarrhoea each year in Afghanistan has dropped below 10,000 for the first time, the disease still claims the lives of 9,500 children, or 26 each day, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Thursday.

Rohingya crisis: Suu Kyi visits Rakhine in one-day unannounced trip

Nov 02, 2017, at 05:55 pm

Naypyidaw, Nov 2 (IBNS): Myanmar's de-facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Thursday visited the violence hit Rakhine state in a one-day unannounced trip, reports said.  

FEATURE: As Afghan war grinds on, a marginalized young generation raises its voice

Nov 01, 2017, at 01:24 pm

New York, Nov 1(Just Earth News): It is “show time” on Asia Television in Western Afghanistan, as talk show guest Somaia Ramish replies to a pointed question about war and peace.

Rohingya refugees drown as boat capsizes in rough waters off coast of Bangladesh – UN

Nov 01, 2017, at 05:38 am

New York, Oct 31(Just Earth News): At least four Rohingyas fleeing unrest in Myanmar drowned when a small fishing boat capsized in rough seas off the Bangladesh coast, the United Nations reported Tuesday, also warning that with thousands of refugees still heading to Cox's Bazar every day, sprawling makeshift camps there are now dangerously congested and overcrowded.

Afghanistan: Blast rocks Kabul, several feared killed

Oct 31, 2017, at 11:59 pm

Kabul, Oct 31 (IBNS): A blast rocked Afghanistan's Kabul city on Tuesday, media reports said.

Pakistan returns helicopters to US

Oct 31, 2017, at 09:31 pm

Islamabad, Oct 31 (IBNS): Pakistan have returned five of the helicopters to the US which were given to monitor border areas of the nation with Afghanistan, media reports said.  

Pakistan: Woman kills 15 in-laws with 'poisoned lassi'

Oct 31, 2017, at 09:30 pm

Multan, Oct 31 (IBNS): At least 15 people were killed after consuming poisonous lassi in Tehsil Alipur's neighbourhood Lashari area of Pakistan, media reports said on Tuesday.

Afghanistan: 12 injured in magnetic bomb blast

Oct 30, 2017, at 10:05 pm

Kabul, Oct 30 (IBNS): At least 12 people were injured in a magnetic bomb blast on a vehicle in northern Baghlan province of Afghanistan on Monday, media reports said.

Khaleda Zia to meet Rohingya refugees, distribute aides in Cox's Bazar

Oct 30, 2017, at 06:30 pm

Cox's Bazar, Oct 30 (IBNS): The opposition leader and the Chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Khaleda Zia, will be meeting the Rohingya refugees in Cox's Bazar, where she will distribute support materials.  

Six cops, 8 militants killed in Afghanistan clash

Oct 29, 2017, at 10:22 pm

Kabul, Oct 29 (IBNS): At least six policemen and eight terrorists were killed during a clash at Afghanistan's Arghandab district, media reports said on Sunday.

Bangladesh: Vehicles in BNP motorcade attacked, Zia unhurt

Oct 29, 2017, at 05:00 am

Dhaka, Oct 28 (IBNS): BNP leader Khaleda Zia's motorcade was attacked by unknown men in Bangladesh's Feni area on Saturday, media reports said.

Nepal bus crash kills 31, several injured

Oct 29, 2017, at 12:55 am

Kathmandu, Oct 28 (IBNS): At least 31 people, including an Indian woman, died in a bus crash in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal, local media reports said.

20 Taliban killed in Afghanistan

Oct 28, 2017, at 10:47 pm

Kabul, Oct 28 (IBNS): In two separate airstrikes and a clash at least 20 Talibans were killed in Afghanistan's Zabul province, media reports said.