WOMEN in Afghanistan are facing increasing violence almost eight years after the fall of the Taliban, a UN report showed yesterday.

The UN joined the row over Iraqis killed by private American security firms today and war said individuals could face war crimes charges.

Afghanistan can no longer accept or understand civilian deaths, President Hamid Karzai said today, after officials reported that 51 villagers died during a US-led operation against Taliban militants in western Afghanistan.

Sectarian violence, armed militias and death squads have created a situation in Iraq where revenge attacks go unchecked, the United Nations’ top humanitarian official said in Geneva today.

A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 40, many just arriving for work, in a busy pedestrian alley next to Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry today, officials said.

World leaders have today welcomed the adoption of Iraq’s new constitution, but some observers cautioned that the country still faces major obstacles on its path to stability.

AFTER the horror of the genocide in which some 800,000 Rwandans were slaughtered in just 100 days, the world vowed ‘never again’.

A FRENCH woman working for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was shot dead yesterday in the Afghan town of Ghazni when two men on a motorcycle opened fire on her vehicle with a pistol.