SHIBERGHAN (PAN had been stored, in the northern province of Jawzjan, officials said on Friday. The gunmen entered the middle school in Alamleek village of Mordyan district, wounded two security guards and set the building on fire, the deputy governor…
KABUL in the past 24 hours, the US military said on Friday. A joint force found and defused four IEDs -- two in Ghazni City, one in Khwaja Omari district and one in Gilan, a statement from the Bagram Airbase.…
KABUL): At least 22 people were killed and several others wounded after a group of five suicide bombers laced with guns stormed a hotel overnight in the heavily-fortified central capital, police said on Friday. The latest coordinated attack was launched…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Three American soldiers were among 25 people killed and 30 others injured on Wednesday morning when a suicide bomber blew himself up near a foreign troop convoy in southeastern Khost province. The attack took place at 11:30am…
KABUL-led force said on Tuesday. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement the individuals in police uniforms turned their weapons against coalition soldiers in southern Afghanistan and killed a service member. The three individuals fled the area…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Seven insurgents were killed and 10 coalition troops wounded in a fierce clash triggered by a suicide attack on foreign military base in the southern province of Kandahar on Tuesday morning, officials said. The Taliban) base in…
AZADABAD (PAN killed two tribal elders after inviting them to negotiations in the Narai district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Tuesday. District chief Gul Zaman told Pajhwok Afghan News the insurgents shot dead the elders on Monday…
Ghazni City (PAN-Kandahar Highway in the Syedabad district in central Maidan Wardak province on Tuesday morning. The governor’s spokesperson said the ill-fated passenger car -- travelling from Kabul to Ghazni province -- hit a roadside bomb in the Salar area…
SAR-I-PUL CITY (PAN): Five people were killed and 31 others wounded during a daring jailbreak that led to the escape of dozens of prisoners in northern Sar-i-Pul province, officials said on Friday. The jailbreak followed a powerful bomb blast inside…
JALALABAD (PAN convoy in the eastern province of Nangarhar on Saturday, an official said. Foreign forces suffered no casualties in the attack. The incident took place on the Torkham-Jalalabad highway at around 10 am when the bomber detonated his explosives-laden…
PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): A rocket shell landed inside the house of Pajhwok Afghan News reporter, but no one was injured in the incident in the central province of Logar, officials said on Thursday. The shell hit the house of reporter, Maqsud…
KABUL, the coalition forces said on Sunday. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in a statement confirmed the deaths but neither revealed the soldiers’ nationalities nor the exact locations of the incident. Mostly, the US and British soldiers are stationed…
BAMYAN CITY (PAN): Unidentified gunmen raided a civilian home in the central province of Bamyan, killing a local influential person and wounding two others, local officials said on Thursday. The businessman Saleh Bai was gunned down at his residence by…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Security incidents have declined by 60 percent, compared to 2011, in southern Kandahar province, where Afghan armed forces have extended their writ to remote areas, the governor said on Wednesday. However, he gave no specific figures. Governor…
KABUL Arsalan Rahmani, a prominent peace negotiator who was buried amid moving scenes in Kabul. Rahmani’s funeral prayers were attended by hundreds of people, including his colleagues, government officials and residents in the Dehbori area of Kabul -- a day…
KABUL Arsala Rahmani, who was shot dead on his way to parliament in Kabul. “We had twice informed Rahmani about the plot. The information was shared with him by an NDS operative in person,” a spokesman for the Afghan spy…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN): A senior counter-terrorism official was killed along with a security guard in a bomb attack in northern Sar-i-Pul province on Friday morning. A knowledgeable source, who did not want to be named, confided to Pajhwok Afghan News that…
CHARIKAR): An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier shot dead his aunt after a verbal clash over a property dispute in the Bagram district of central Parwan province on Thursday, an official said. The 23-year-old was killed in the Qalacha Sokhta…
QALA-i-NAW (PAN insurgents during a poppy eradication campaign in the Moqur district of northwest Badghis province, officials said on Wednesday. Col. Abdul Qadir, crime branch chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the soldiers from the third battalion of the 207th Zafar…
QUETTA (PAN’s southwestern Balochistan province, police said. The bombing happened on Sariab Road at about 2pm, local police officer Mohammad Riaz told Pajhwok Afghan News. The dead included Frontier Corps (FC) personnel. He said the loud blast near a grid…
GARDEZ (PAN): The Samkani district mayor was shot dead and two of his security guards were wounded in a militant attack in southeastern Paktia province, officials said on Monday. Taliban ambushed Mayor Mohammad Wazir in the Zawa area of Zurmat…
KABUL): Five insurgents and two police commanders were killed, while 21 insurgents were detained in various security operations, said officials on Sunday. The operations were conducted jointly by Afghan and foreign troops in Nangarhar, Kunduz, Kapisa, Kandahar, Helmand, Khost, Ghazni,…
KABUL-led soldiers were killed in a bomb attack and a fourth was shot dead by his Afghan counterpart separately in south and east of the country, the alliance said on Friday. An International Security Assistance Force (ISAF late on Thursday.…
SHARAN (PAN): Three local policemen and a resident were arrested for carrying a suicide vest in a police vehicle in southeastern Paktika province on Thursday, an official said. The four were arrested with the suicide belt in Barmal district, local…
