Fourteen insurgents were killed when NATO aircrafts pounded their positions during an ongoing ground and air offensive in southern Zabul province, the Afghan military said on Saturday. A statement from the Afghan National Army’s 205th Atal Military…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
ISLAMABAD (PAN (TTP) head on Saturday, the day his predecessor Hakimullah Mehsud was laid to rest, local officials said. Mehsud was killed along with several close associates in a US drone strike in the Dande Darpakhel area near Miranshah, the…
KABUL insurgents in central Logar province, an official said on Wednesday. The air raid on Tuesday night targeted a group of militants who had gathered to attack police posts in the Alozai area, the governor’s spokesman said. Din Mohammad Darwish…
KHOST CITY (PAN airstrikes in southeastern Khost province, an official said on Wednesday. The airstrikes were conducted late on Tuesday night in Kosain and Shkhal areas of Musakhel district, an official at the 203rd Thunder Military Crops’ media office said.…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): An overnight airstrike by foreign troops killed eight suspected insurgents while planting roadside bombs on a key highway in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Tuesday. The strike that took place around 1am last night targeted…
SHARAN (PAN were killed during an airstrike and clashes with security forces in Paktika and Ghazni province, officials said on Wednesday. The air raid killed 10 militants planting roadside bombs in the Kotni area of Sara Rawza district of Paktika…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN), while as many suspects detained in northern Kunduz province, an official said on Thursday. The fighters were killed on Wednesday night when ISAF aircraft bombed a Taliban hideout in the Damshakh area of Dasht-i-Archi district, government official…
ISLAMABAD (PAN’s northwestern tribal region early Wednesday morning, officials said. Wali-ur-Rehman, the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) number two, was among the dead, though the insurgent group denied his death. The commander was set to succeed Hakimullah Mehsud as TTP chief, according…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN) airstrike in southern Ghazni province on Tuesday, an official said. The raid in Deh Yak district caused no harm to civilians, a spokesman for the Afghan National Army’s 203rd Thunder Corps, Nazifullah Sultani, told Pajhwok Afghan News.…
ISLAMABAD (PAN border, an official said on Wednesday. The pilotless aircraft targeted a house in the Babar Ghar area of Sararogha sub-district on Tuesday night, killing five suspected militants, injuring seven others and destroying the compound, a security official in…
KABUL (PAN): Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense Gen. Zahir Azimi and spokesman for International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Gunter Katz, press conference about militant attacks on border area of Afghanistan, in Kabul. By: Ataullah Khpulwok and Obaidullah Hussam
KABUL on Sunday supported President Hamid Karzai’s intention to ban government forces from requesting airstrikes during operation in rural areas. The operations could still be successful, ISAF Commander Gen. Joseph Dunford told journalists in Kabul on Sunday. He promised continued…
KABUL on Thursday President Hamid Karzai to provide his insights into a joint operation that was conducted a day earlier in eastern Kunar province. Five children, four women, a man and three insurgent commanders were killed in the coalition air…
KABUL border, a media report said on Tuesday. Army jets pounded Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) hideouts in the remote Tirah valley of Khyber and Orakzai regions, the Dawn newspaper reported. Quoting unnamed security officials, the newspaper said ammunition…
KABUL (PAN): Seven civilians and four armed rebels were killed during a predawn operation in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Sunday, officials said. The governor's office said the raid was carried out by Afghan and foreign…
KABUL) in southwestern Nimroz province, an official said on Sunday. Kasrad district chief Muhammad Hashim Noorzai told Pajhwok Afghan News that a militant commander Mullah Fazal Rabi along with his two associates were killed in the attack. Rabi was close…
Heart (PAN): A 20-years-old woman was beheaded in the 7th district of western Herat province, officials said on Wednesday. Magul was beheaded on Tuesday night in 7th district of western Heart province and her dad body was found outside her…
KABUL) confirmed on Friday. Ammar, who managed a network of insurgents and directed attacks against Afghan and coalition forces throughout the province, was killed during the June 29 air raid in Watapur district, the NATO-led force said. LeT leader Khetab…
KABUL that its troops would not carry out airstrikes on civilian homes but maintained the raids would be used as a last resort in self-defence. International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commander Gen. John Allen said he had directed coalition forces…
KABUL on Saturday promised foreign troops would no longer conduct air raids on civilian houses. Three days after a deadly airstrike in central Logar province, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) commander Gen. John Allen held out the strong assurance at…
