The Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission (AIHRC) in a report has claimed confirmation of the involvement of several teachers and school officials in the sexual abuse of children in Logar province.
A Taliban local militant leader and four of his subordinates have been killed in an airstrike in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province, Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
At least five Taliban insurgents were killed by Afghan security forces in an operation conducted in Shina Qala village of Barak-e Barak district of Logar province, officials said.
Five militants including a Taliban shadow governor for Azra district of the eastern Logar province were killed as fighting aircraft targeted the armed group's hideout Sunday evening, provincial police spokesman Shahpor Ahmadzai said Monday.
There is no clarity on who was behind the attack in Logar province's Baraki Barak district with Afghan officials giving conflicting accounts of the air raid on Kuchi nomadic people.
One child and 22 militants were killed following a counter-terrorism operation in Afghanistan's eastern Logar province overnight, Afghan Ministry of Interior Affairs confirmed on Tuesday.
A prominent Taliban commander identified as Shafiqullah has been killed during the operation of Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in central Logar province.
Police have seized an arms depot and nearly 8,000 kilograms of explosives in the Azra district of central Logar province, an official said on Saturday.
Seven people were killed and six others wounded, including women and children, in a traffic accident in central Logar province on Saturday, an official said.
Tribesmen in southeastern Logar have said that a number of civilians had died in a pre-dawn raid by the army in a remote village on Tuesday night as government forces escalated their offensive to squash rebel strongholds there.