KABUL. Journalists, both local and foreign, not only face hostile enemy threats but occasionally become target of the protectors themselves, as in the case of Omaid Khpulwak, the young Afghan reporter killed by a US soldier in Uruzgan, a central…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN had closed schools in Andar and Deh Yak districts of southern Ghazni, in retaliation to government’s decision to ban motorcycles. Taliban had been warning students and teachers since last Saturday not to go to schools in the…
WASHINGTON (PAN on Sunday. “The intelligence indicates that Haqqanis were behind the attacks that took place. And we had received a great deal of intelligence indicating that Haqqanis were planning these kinds of attacks,” Panetta told a news conference. On…
KABUL movement which unleashed violent attacks in the city, was detained in the Pul-i-Charkhi area of Kabul on Monday, said security officials. The 101st Kabul zone police said the attacker was arrested on the capital’s eastern outskirts early Monday morning.…
LASHKARGAH/HERAT CITY (PAN): Seven policemen were among 17 people killed in two separate suicide attacks on government offices in southern Helmand and western Herat provinces on Tuesday, officials said. More than 60 others were wounded. The daring assaults came two…
BAGRAM (PAN) said on Sunday. Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers, along with coalition forces, killed five fighters in a shootout in the Manogai district of Kunar province, a statement from the multinational force said. Coalition troops killed two militants spotted…
HERAT CITY (PAN): As the accountability week began, local officials said the security situation improved last year in the western province of Herat. Speaking at a conference, the provincial police chief said the security situation had considerably improved, with a…
BAGRAM (PAN on Friday, the alliance said on Saturday. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said three insurgents were killed in response to rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire in Muqer District of Ghazni province. A statement from the NATO-led…
KABUL): President Hamid Karzai on Friday condemned the assassination of his peace envoy in the Watapur district of eastern Kunar province. Province peace council head Maulvi Mohammad Hashim Munib, who was on his way home from Friday prayers in the…
KABUL): An Afghan government peace negotiator was killed in a suicide attack in the Watapur district of eastern Kunar province on Friday, officials said. Province council head Maulvi in the district centre, was killed in the bombing, the provincial police…
MEHTARLAM (PAN): Unidentified motorcyclists shot dead three civilians and wounded a fourth in the capital city of eastern Laghman province, an official said on Friday. Four motorcyclists opened fire on civilians in the Maidan village on the outskirts of Mehtarlam…
KABUL) soldier was killed in a roadside boming in the troubled south, the alliance said on Friday. The servicemember’s death was announced in a brief statement from the NATO-led force that neither revealed the victim’s nationality nor the exact location…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): Four civilians were killed during a search operation by Afghan forces in the Tagab district of central Kapisa province, officials said on Friday. Two girls, a woman and a child were among the dead, a provincial council…
KABUL injured in separate incidents of violence, officials said on Thursday. Five Taliban were killed in a clash with Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in the Khogiani district of southern Ghazni province. Army commander Gen. Daud Shah Wafadar told Pajhwok…
SHARAN (PAN): Nine members of the local police force were shot dead by their colleague in the Yahyakhel district of southeastern Paktika province, officials said on Friday. Mukhlis Afghan, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News two local police officials…
KHOST CITY (PAN border on Sunday, officials said. Dawlat Khan, the district’s administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News the blast took place in Nori village at about 4:00pm. A seven years old child was killed on the spot and an…
KABUL, has been slapped with 17 charges of premeditated murders of Afghan civilians in the Panjwai district of southern Kandahar province early this month. The US Forces-Afghanistan Public Affairs said the military had charged Staff Sergeant Robert Bales with premeditated…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Two children were killed and eight people injured in a suicide attack in southern Kandahar province on Thursday, officials said. A second suspected suicide bomber was gunned down by police soon after he disembarked from a vehicle…
KABUL, the alliance said on Thursday. The deaths were announced in brief statements from the NATO-led force that neither disclosed the soldiers’ nationalities nor the exact locations. One servicemember died as a result of a non-battle-related injury in the east…
KABUL): Two militants were killed and 26 others detained over the past 24 hours in separate operation across the country, the Ministry of Interior said on Thursday. AT least one fighter was injured in the operations by Afghan and International…
KABUL, the alliance said on Thursday. The death was announced in a brief statement that neither disclosed the soldier's nationality nor the exact location of the incident. Mostly American and British soldiers are based in the Taliban soldiers were killed…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman was killed and six others, including a foreign soldier, were wounded in separate incidents of violence in the southern province of Helmand, officials said on Wednesday. The policeman was killed when the vehicle he was travelling…
FARAH CITY/ GHAZNI CITY (PAN): Security officials in Farah and Ghazni provinces on Tuesday claimed detaining four suicide attack planners and as many other suspects trying to disrupt the Nawroz festival. A security official who did not want to be…
ISLAMABAD (PAN): Notorious militant commander, Mangal Bagh who led his own faction of the Lashkar-i-Islam group, has been killed in a clash in the Tirah valley of the lawless Khyber tribal region near the Afghan border, police said on Monday.…
