Nazyan district chief killed in bomb blast from Pajhwok Afghan News. JALALABAD (Pajhwok): A district administrative head and his bodyguard were killed when a bomb hidden in their car was detonated in the capital of eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday,…
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…
Fires erupted in two forests as a result of missile attacks by Pakistani troops into eastern Kunar province, local officials claimed on Wednesday. Provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdul Habib Syedkhel, said 24 missiles had been fired over…
2 dead, 6 injured in Kunduz suicide attack from Pajhwok Afghan News. KUNDUZ CITY (Pajhwok): Two civilians were killed and six others wounded in a suicide attack in the Khanabad district of northern Kunduz province on Saturday, officials said. A…
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,…
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…
KABUL-claimed group suicide attack on a Lebanese restaurant in downtown Kabul, in which 21 people, including a Pakistani and a Russian, had been killed. The attack in Wazir Akbar Khan diplomatic district began around 7:20pm, when one suicide bomber detonated…
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)…
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…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): The deputy governor of northern Balkh province on Sunday escaped unhurt in a suicide attack, which caused several civilian casualties, an official said. Provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Abdur Rahman Rahimi, told Pajhwok Afghan News the suicide…
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…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Security forces discovered a depot of explosive and arrested an individual in this connection in the Guzra district of Herat province, an official said on Wednesday. Nisar Ahmad Popal, the district chief, told reports the explosives were…
JALALABAD (PAN): Intelligence operatives in eastern Laghman province have detained 21 children, some as young as 7, being taken to Pakistan for receiving suicide attack training, an official said on Thursday. The children, aged between 7 and 12 years, were…
PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): A rebel was killed and four civilians were wounded in a militant attack on a wedding party on the outskirts of Pul-i-Alam, the capital of central Logar province, an official said on Saturday. The incident took place on…
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): The Afghan government on Saturday denounced as cowardly the terrorist attack on the Indian consulate in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province. The bomb-gun attack resulted in the death and injury of more than 20 innocent Afghans men,…
JALALABAD (PAN): At least eight people were killed and 21 others wounded in a suicide attack on the Indian consulate in eastern Nangarhar province on Saturday, officials said. A powerful blast, followed by intense gunfire, took place at the entrance…
JALALABAD (PAN): More than 100 people, including policemen, civilians and insurgents have been killed in a new wave of violence in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said Friday. Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News 16 militants, including…
TIRINKOT (PAN officer was among four people shot dead by suspected insurgents in central Uruzgan province late on Wednesday, an official said. Abdul Hadi Khan, the education officer for Khas Uruzgan district, was gunned down along with his son Aziz…
TIRINKOT (PAN): Two separate explosions killed six security men and injured 14 others, mostly civilians, in the central province of Uruzgan, officials said on Tuesday. The first blast took place in Tirinkot, the provincial capital, late on Monday, injuring nine…
KABUL) said. Announcing the death in a brief statement, the alliance deferred casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities. Mostly American forces are stationed in eastern Afghanistan and they have borne the brunt of casualties in the war against…
TIRINKOT (PAN): A former district chief was gunned down by assailants on a motorbike in central Uruzgan province on Tuesday, an official said. Syed Rasul Khan, ex-administrative head of Charchino district, came under gun attack in the first police district…
