The National Security Council (NSC) says nearly a hundred civilians have been killed in the country during the second week of the Ramadan month.

Afghan Foreign Ministry on Friday turned down Pakistan’s demand for extradition of ISIS-Khorasan leader, saying he will be tried in Afghanistan under Afghan laws.

 At least seven Afghan civilians were killed when the Taliban attacked security forces in northern Balkh province, local officials said Wednesday.

Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) says at least 50 civilians including 17 children were killed and wounded by airstrikes during the past month in January 2020.

 At least 14 people including four civilians have been killed and 22 civilians wounded in bomb blasts in the insurgency-battered Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, officials said on Wednesday.

Escalating attacks by US forces over the summer have meant a higher toll among Afghan civilians.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Washington remains committed to “peace and stability” in Afghanistan and the fight against terrorism following a bloody bombing in a mosque in Nangarhar province.

Afghanistan’s leading human rights body has alleged that two Afghan civilians killed by Australian forces were both unarmed, contrary to claims that led to the soldier responsible exonerated by a military investigation.

At least 30 civilians were killed and injured in an operation of security forces Musa Qala district, local officials said.

In July alone, UN documented at least 50 civilians killed or wounded daily, highest number since May 2017

The UN mission in Afghanistan has announced that the conflict in Afghanistan killed or wounded 3,812 civilians in the first half of 2019.

Three bombs hit the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday killing at least two people and leaving 24 others injured, officials said. The first bomb was on a bus carrying university students, before two roadside blasts struck.

Air strikes in western Afghanistan this week destroyed a number of Taliban drug labs and also killed dozens of civilians, according to reports from local officials that were rejected by the Afghan government.

More than 300 Afghan civilians and security forces, and over a thousand armed rebels were killed in November in signs of escalating violence in the war-torn country.

In what appears to be statistical proof of evident upsurge in the Afghan war, the US announced to have dropped close to 6000 bombs in Afghanistan this year so far.