22 Nov 2016 - KABUL - The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) welcomes today’s appointments to electoral commissions. This signals a new phase in the rebuilding of trust in the electoral institutions and process.
The Mission acknowledges the critical task of expediting electoral...
21 Nov 2016 - NEW YORK - The Secretary-General condemns today’s attack in Kabul targeting civilians gathered for worship. The suicide bombing at a mosque where Shia Muslims had gathered follows two similar attacks last month.
Attacks deliberately targeting civilians exercising their right to...
21 Nov 2016 - KABUL - The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) condemns today’s attack at the Baqer-ul Ulom mosque in Kabul that killed at least 32 civilians and injured more than 50 others, many of them children.
A suicide attacker detonated his body-borne improvised explosive...
11 Nov 2016 - KABUL - The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan condemns last night’s attack against civilian residents of the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif.
Shortly before midnight on 10 November, a vehicle laden with heavy explosives detonated in the vicinity of the German Consulate...
06 Nov 2016 - KABUL - The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) is currently investigating allegations that at least 32 civilians were killed and a further 19 injured in air strikes in Kunduz city last Thursday.
In the early hours of 3 November, a series of air strikes were...