Polish troops on Sunday handed over the security responsibility to their Afghan counterparts after wrapping up mission in southern Ghazni province. A special ceremony marked the security transition at Forward Operating Base, where the provincial governor and…
A bomb exploded at a Persian new year function in the Khakrez district of southern Kandahar province on Friday, killing a senior government officer and a policeman. Brig. Gen. Abdul Razzaq told Pajhwok Afghan News seven people were…
Eighteen people were killed and 22 others wounded during coordinated bomb attacks and shooting by the Taliban in the capital of eastern Nangarhar province on Thursday morning, officials said.
KABUL a day earlier after held captive during the Feb. 23 attack on their post in eastern Kunar province, on Friday said Taliban freed them after tribal elders guaranteed that they would not resume job. Staff Sergeant Khairuddin and Mir…
KABUL attack in eastern Kunar province, where two of the six soldiers missing since the Feb 23 attack had been freed. The soldiers were recognised posthumously for repulsing the attack on an ANA border post in the Ghaziabad district and…
Four Afghan army and two police personnel were killed on Saturday when a booby-trapped bomb they were attempting to defuse exploded in eastern Laghman province, an official said. The blast occurred in the morning when the security officials…
Three Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and ten militants have been killed during separate security operations in various parts of the country, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday. The operations were conducted in Birmal district of southeastern…
Kunar Governor Shujaul Mulk Jalala on Monday said a search operation had been accelerated to recover missing Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers. As a result of a daring predawn Taliban attack, 21 ANA personnel were killed and eight…
20 ANA soldiers killed in Kunar attack from Pajhwok Afghan News. KABUL (Pajhwok): At least 20 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed early Sunday morning when militants stormed their check-post in eastern Kunar province, officials said. A group of…
KABUL, their foreign accomplices and the intelligence network of a certain country, the Ministry of Defence alleged on Monday. At least 20 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed and eight others kidnapped early on Sunday morning when militants stormed…
At least 20 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed early Sunday morning when militants stormed their check-post in eastern Kunar province, officials said. A group of Afghan and foreign insurgents mounted the attack on ANA's Sher Ghashi…
Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) contracted-civilians were killed in a suicide attack in the 12th police district of Kabul on Monday afternoon, officials said. The Ministry of Interior confirmed the bombing in the Ahmad Shah Baba Mina Square,…
A group of 18 Afghan security personnel graduated last week from an Explosive Hazardous Reduction Course (EHRC) in the Gilan district of southern Ghazni province, the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-Afghanistan (CJSOTF-A) said on Saturday. Afghan…
The Ministry of Defence on Thursday said it was paying ample attention to Afghan security personnel’s literacy, with tens of thousands of soldiers and policemen having completed such courses. Ministry spokesman Gen. Zahir Azimi, in an exclusive interview…
Four people were killed and 22 others injured during a Taliban suicide attack on a Ministry of Defence bus in the central capital Kabul on Sunday morning, officials said. The bombing took place in the Market area of…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): A 10-year-old girl, forced by her brother into carrying out a suicide bombing, surrendered to police in southern Helmand province, an official said on Monday. The girl turned in herself to the sixth border zone police in Khanshin…
JALALABAD (PAN): A group of insurgents stormed a terminal near a NATO base in the border town of Torkham in eastern Nangarhar province on Wednesday morning, officials said. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor's spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News that militant…
KABUL (PAN): An explosives-laden car exploded at the entrance to a NATO troops’ facility on the Qasaba Road near the Kabul International Airport on Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports about casualties, officials said. The Ministry of Interior (MoI)…
GHAZNI (PAN): It’s been five years since Poland first sent troops to Ghazni. Here the 10th Armoured Cavalry Brigade take over from the 25th Air Cavalry Brigade in the same week as the Polish side of the joint Provincial Reconstruction…
KABUL (PAN): At least 10 people were killed and several others wounded when powerful explosion rocked the Polytechnic area of the central capital Kabul on Saturday afternoon, officials said, fearing heavy casualties. The incident took place at 3.15pm close to…
KABUL): Five Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed in separate incidents in different parts of the country, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Wednesday. Four of the soldiers were killed and one wounded during a bomb blast…
KABUL): Four Afghan National Army (ANA) troops have been killed and half a dozen injured during separate roadside bomb and gun attacks in Jawzjan, Kunar and Ghazni provinces past 24 hours, officials said on Thursday. Unknown motorcyclists shot dead two…
KABUL): A first ever military academy has been inaugurated in a move to strengthen the capacity and enhance professionalism of Afghan National Army (ANA) officers, an official said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference, Brig Gen. Mohammad Sharif Sharifi, a…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Eight Afghan National Army (ANA) troops have reportedly been killed and as many others injured during two separate insurgent attacks in central Parwan and western Farah provinces, officials said on Tuesday. Six ANA soldiers were killed when…
