I (mostly) quote the BBC:
The number of people who were killed in a militant attack on a maternity ward in Kabul, a few days ago, has risen to 24. Mothers, newborn babies and nurses were among the victims. At least 16 people were injured, the health ministry said. In a second incident on the same day, a suicide bomber killed at least 32 people at a funeral in Nangarhar, in the east of the country.
The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack on the police commander's funeral in Nangarhar.
It is still not clear who carried out the attack at the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, and the Taliban have denied any involvement. However, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has blamed IS for the hospital attack, saying the jihadists want to undermine recent peace efforts and fan a sectarian war.
Little Amina (one of the injured babies) is now recovering in a different hospital. She has already had one round of surgery, with at least two more to go. The doctors hope they can save the leg shattered by a bullet, but they don't know yet.
The family fear for her future if they do have to amputate - life is not likely to be easy for a disabled girl in Afghanistan.
But right now, they are just trying to understand why, as the country supposedly moves towards peace, this happened.
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52673563 , https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52642503)
Why are things like that happening?
It seems to me that at least one of the reasons is the very brutal and violent way the Islamic State militants are being dealt with (and killed) themselves by the U.S. mostly (but also by its allies). I suspect the extraordinary violence by Isis is a reaction to the violence that they suffer themselves, after they created a pseudo-state in Iraq and Syria, following the illegal U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003:
Something similar happened during WWII: Nazi violence against the Jews enormously increased after the UK and France (joined later by the U.S., after Pearl Harbor) declared war to them.
In other words, if you want real progress (in Afghanistan and elsewhere), and not just more of the same, the U.S. should (in my opinion) learn to treat the members of the Islamic State like human beings, as opposed to some kind of infected rats that would need to be eliminated.
The number of people who were killed in a militant attack on a maternity ward in Kabul, a few days ago, has risen to 24. Mothers, newborn babies and nurses were among the victims. At least 16 people were injured, the health ministry said. In a second incident on the same day, a suicide bomber killed at least 32 people at a funeral in Nangarhar, in the east of the country.
The Islamic State (IS) group said it was behind the attack on the police commander's funeral in Nangarhar.
It is still not clear who carried out the attack at the Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, and the Taliban have denied any involvement. However, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad has blamed IS for the hospital attack, saying the jihadists want to undermine recent peace efforts and fan a sectarian war.
Little Amina (one of the injured babies) is now recovering in a different hospital. She has already had one round of surgery, with at least two more to go. The doctors hope they can save the leg shattered by a bullet, but they don't know yet.
The family fear for her future if they do have to amputate - life is not likely to be easy for a disabled girl in Afghanistan.
But right now, they are just trying to understand why, as the country supposedly moves towards peace, this happened.
(https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52673563 , https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-52642503)
Why are things like that happening?
It seems to me that at least one of the reasons is the very brutal and violent way the Islamic State militants are being dealt with (and killed) themselves by the U.S. mostly (but also by its allies). I suspect the extraordinary violence by Isis is a reaction to the violence that they suffer themselves, after they created a pseudo-state in Iraq and Syria, following the illegal U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003:
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam...nter_the_Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant)
Something similar happened during WWII: Nazi violence against the Jews enormously increased after the UK and France (joined later by the U.S., after Pearl Harbor) declared war to them.
In other words, if you want real progress (in Afghanistan and elsewhere), and not just more of the same, the U.S. should (in my opinion) learn to treat the members of the Islamic State like human beings, as opposed to some kind of infected rats that would need to be eliminated.
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