KABUL): Four Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed during separate incidents in Faryab and Ghazni provinces, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Saturday. A MoD statement said three troops were lost to a roadside bombing in Qaisar…
SHARAN (PAN): Equipment of the Paktin Voice Radio in a border district of southeastern Paktika province has allegedly been auctioned instead of being handed to the authorities, the station’s former officials said on Wednesday. Haji Suliman Faisal, the former official…
KABUL): Four Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed and five others wounded in different security incidents in the country over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. Two soldiers were killed and three others…
KABUL (PAN): A large number of people coming all the way from central Uruzgan province staged a protest rally in Kabul on Monday, calling for the public hanging of a serial killer, Hakimullah Shujayee. Shujayee, a resident of southern Ghazni…
KABUL): Five Afghan National Army (ANA) troops and eight insurgents have been killed in separate incidents of violence across the country, the Ministry of Defence said on Sunday. Six armed rebels were killed during an operation in the Zankhan district…
CHARIKAR): A man been killed and two others, including a district chief, wounded during separate road accidents in Ghazni and Paktika provinces, officials said on Saturday. Orgun district's administrative head Azizullah Hayaee was wounded late on Friday when his car…
KABUL): Seven Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed in separate explosions over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on Sunday. Three soldiers were killed during a blast in the Mohammad Agha district of central…
JALALABAD (PAN): Gun toting Taliban fighters marched through an outcrop of east Jalal Abad province on Monday after a deadly firefight with Afghan security forces in the area on Friday. Taliban members noisily revved captured Afghan Police jeeps, chanting "long…
KABUL): Two Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers werelost to a roadside bombing in the Khak-i-Jabar district of central Kabul province, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Wednesday. In a brief statement, the ministry said the attack took place on…
KABUL): Seven Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed during separate security incidents over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Wednesday. A MoD statement said the troops were killed in southern Helmand, Ghazni and…
LASHKARGAH/CHAGHCHARAN (PAN provinces, officials said on Tuesday. Up to 12 rebels were killed and 20 others wounded late on Monday during Operation Eagle by the Afghan National Army (ANA) in the Marja district of Helmand, the 215th Maiwand Military Corps…
KABUL): Fourteen Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed and several others wounded in incidents of violence in different parts of the country, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Sunday. Seven of the soldiers were killed and three…
JALALABAD (PAN attack. The lightning storm occurred as heavy rains lashed the Shigal district of Kunar on Wednesday afternoon, police spokesman Sher Wali Samim told Pajhwok Afghan News. The dead included two young men, he said. In Nangarhar, a group…
KABUL (PAN): A Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the Supreme Court in the nation’s heavily-fortified capital on Tuesday, killing 17 civilians and wounding 39 others, police said. Women, children and court employees were among the…
KABUL (PAN): Triggered by a brazen assault on the Kabul International Airport early Monday morning, clashes between insurgents and security forces ended with the killing of all seven attackers, the Ministry of Interior said. Two of the militants blew themselves…
KABUL (PAN): The United States and NATO on Thursday strongly condemned an insurgent attack on an office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in eastern Nangarhar province. Wednesday’s suicide attack in Jalalabad killed one ICRC staff member…
KABUL): Five Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed over the past 24 hours in southern Helmand province, the Ministry of Defence said on Thursday. Three soldiers were wounded during security incidents in Musa Qala, Greshk and Sangin districts,…
KABUL): As many as 553 militants were killed and 581 others detained during security operations over the past one month, when 106 Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Sunday. An MoD statement…
KABUL (PAN): A well-coordinated Taliban attack that killed 10 people, including six attackers, and wounded 14 others drew strong condemnation on Saturday from the US, the UN and NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan. UN's Secretary General Ban Ki-moon strongly condemned…
KABUL insurgents, four Afghan army soldiers and a tribal elder have been killed in separate incidents in different parts of the country, officials said on Tuesday. A notorious Taliban commander, Mullah airstrike on the outskirts of Pul-i-Alam, the provincial capital…
KABUL): Seven Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers have been killed in different parts of the country, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. A statement from the ministry said six soldiers were killed in two blasts in the Bala Baluk district…
JALALABAD (PAN): Thousands of people rallied in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, against Pakistan on Thursday, supporting Afghan security forces. Afghan forces pulled down a border gate following a seven-hour clash with Pakistani troops in the Goshta district…
WASHINGTON (PAN are evincing increasing interest in joining the country’s army and the police force, reflecting the significant progress made by them, a top Pentagon official told lawmakers on Friday. Family pressure is the biggest obstacle to their joining the…
KABUL): Up to 107 Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel and 467 militants were killed over the past one month, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said on Sunday. Afghan soldiers conducted 2,209 counterinsurgency operations and 622 search offensives in different parts…
