Taliban execute three civilians in Afghanistan

September 30th, 2009 12 Afghan civilians killed in roadside bomb blastKABUL — A roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan has killed 12 civilians. Police chief Bismullah Khan says a civilian bus hit a bomb in Kandahar province's Maiwand district Tuesday morning, killing the 12 civilians and wounding another 15.

September 29th, 2009 KABUL - At least 30 people were killed and 39 others injured Tuesday when the passenger bus in which they were travelling struck a landmine in southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the interior ministry said in a statement. "In the tragic incident, occurred in Maiwand district, 30 civilians including 10 children, seven women and 13 men were killed and 39 others sustained injuries," the statement said.

September 5th, 2009 KUNDUZ - Three German soldiers were injured in a suicide bombing Saturday in northern Afghanistan, a day after a German-ordered airstrike in which dozens of people were killed in the same province. The bomber blew himself up in an explosives-packed car, said Mohammad Omar, governor of Kunduz province.

August 13th, 2009 Bombs kill 14 civilians in southern AfghanistanKANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Two separate roadside blasts in southern Afghanistan killed 14 civilians, including three children, underscoring the high price paid by ordinary people in the conflict with the Taliban, officials said Thursday. Officials blamed the blasts on Taliban militants, who have made roadside bombings their primary weapons.

August 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Civilian deaths in Afghanistan rose 24 percent in the first half of 2009, and according to a U.N.new report, the Taliban has more of a hand in them than the U.S.-led NATO troops. According to the Christian Science Monitor (CSM).

July 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Taliban in Afghanistan has launched a public relations exercise to win the hearts of people by circulating among them a 'field manual' that calls for efforts to limit civilian casualties, a media report said Thursday. The little book with a blue cover, "Rules for Mujahedeen", directs Taliban militants on how to behave while on deployment and how to deal with enemy combatants, treat prisoners of war and interact with civilians, the Washington Times reported.

June 23rd, 2009 Suicide bomber kills 2 civilians in AfghanistanKABUL — A suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of international troops in central Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing two Afghan civilians, officials said. The driver of the car rammed into the convoy on a highway in Ghazni province about 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) west of Ghazni city, said Ismail Jahangir, a spokesman for the provincial governor.

May 6th, 2009 US commander: Taliban beheading led to air strikesKABUL — Amid a U.S. apology for civilian deaths in Afghanistan, the commander of U.S.

May 4th, 2009 KABUL - A roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan killed 12 civilians Monday, while Taliban militants attacked a supply convoy in the same region, killing six private security guards and two civilians, officials said. The roadside bomb blew up a tractor-trolley carrying civilians in Shamalzai district of southern Zabul province Monday morning, killing 12 civilians, Wazir Jawadi, the district's administrative chief said.

May 3rd, 2009 KABUL - Three civilians including two children were killed and eight wounded Sunday in a roadside bomb blast in southern Afghanistan, the interior ministry said. The victims, including an eight-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy, were killed in the blast at a main market in Gerishk district of southern Helmand province Sunday morning, the ministry said in a statement.

April 14th, 2009 KABUL - Taliban militants have executed a girl and a boy on charge of eloping in the Afghanistan's Nimroz province, an official said Tuesday. 'The tragic incident occurred in Khashrod district Monday.

March 30th, 2009 KABUL - A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-filled vest inside a district headquarter in southern Afghanistan Monday, killing eight people including police and civilians and wounded six others, a government spokesman said. The bomber carried out the attack inside the Dand district in southern Kandahar province Monday morning, killing three policemen and five civilians, provincial spokesman Zelmai Ayoubi said.

March 25th, 2009 KABUL - Nine civilians were killed and seven others wounded Wednesday when their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, a senior police official said. The blast occurred in Sabari district of the south-eastern province of Khost when a bus en route to the provincial capital of the same name was struck by a roadside bomb, police chief Abdul Qayoom Baqizoy said.

March 22nd, 2009 KABUL - Two mines planted by militants Saturday struck two vehicles in Kandahar, the former stronghold of Taliban, leaving three people dead and three injured, all of them civilians, an Afghan official said. 'The first incident took place in Arghandab district as the mine planted by rebels hit a van.

March 22nd, 2009 KABUL - Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai described terrorists as the enemies of peace in his country and strongly condemned the terrorist attack in eastern Nangarhar province that claimed the lives of six persons on the first day of Afghan New Year Saturday. 'The president said the enemies of Afghanistan by carrying out such coward attacks have shown that they want nothing except killing Afghans and destruction of Afghanistan,' said a press release issued by Presidential Palace.