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Afghans workers with US troops injured in attack

PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Six Afghans working for international troops in central Logar province were injured in a militant attack on Wednesday, police said. The six were travelling in a bus when gunmen attacked them in the Khadir area on the outskirts…

Waziristan done strikes claim 15 lives

ISLAMABAD (PAN border, officials said on Monday. The first raid took place late on Sunday night, followed by a second on Monday morning in the Barmal area near Wana, the agency headquarters, a local official said. Fourteen suspected militants, including…

Takhar attack facilitator detained

KABUL said on Wednesday. Afghan government officials and civilians, including two top police commanders, were killed and wounded in the bombing in Taloqan, the alliance said in a statement. In direct contact with Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan leadership in Pakistan,…

Takhar blast not a suicide attack: NDS

KABUL) said on Monday. A joint team of NDS and Ministry of Interior officials found it was not a suicide attack, and the remote-controlled device had been placed in a corridor of the compound, the spy service said. The huge…

Afghan, German officials killed in Takhar attack

TALOQAN (PAN): A huge suicide blast in northern Takhar province on Saturday killed four Afghan police officials, including two senior commanders, and two German soldiers. Nine Afghan officials, including the provincial governor, were wounded. The attacker detonated the explosives strapped…

Death toll from Hangu suicide attack rises

ISLAMABAD (PAN's northwestern Hangu city has increased to 36 people, a doctor said on Friday. A day earlier, local police said that two dozen people were killed and 30 others wounded in the car bombing in the town, the gateway…

Girl killed, 4 wounded in Wardak attack

MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN attacked a logistic convoy of foreign soldiers in the central Maidan Wardak province, an official said on Friday. The insurgents assaulted the convoy in Syedabad district late on Thursday, killing a five-year-old girl and wounding four others,…

3 private security guards killed in Ghazni

GHAZNI CITY (PAN fighters attacked a logistics convoy of foreign soldiers in the southern province of Ghazni on Friday, an official said. One vehicle was destroyed as a result of the attack that took place in Qarabagh district at about…

Taliban hiring women for suicide attacks: Gen. Blotz

KABUL) said on Monday. On May 17, a combined Afghan and coalition security force killed four insurgents, including two armed women, during a security operation in Taloqan, the capital of northern Takhar province. The operation was conducted in pursuit of…

Helmand: 4 Taliban killed, civilians among 9 injured

LASHKARGAH (PAN insurgents were killed and five civilians were among nine others injured in separate incidents of violence in southern Helmand province, officials said on Thursday. Two civilians were injured on Thursday morning when militants fired rockets from unknown location…

35 road workers killed in Taliban attack

GARDEZ (PAN insurgents attacked a private construction company office in southeastern Paktia province on Thursday, killing 35 people, including labourers, security guards and engineers, officials said. Another 24 people were injured when a group of militants attacked guards of the…

Group plotting to attack Senate speaker arrested

KABUL chairman, has been arrested in Kabul, an intelligence official said on Wednesday. The detainees dressed in military uniforms wanted to attack the house of Fazal Hadi Muslimyar in the limits of fifth police district, when they were arrested, the…

Pakistani troops injured in NATO helicopter raid

ISLAMABAD(PAN hit a Pakistani security post near the joint border in North Waziristan tribal belt early on Tuesday, injuring two security personnel, officials said. The raid happened at 9am in Lwara Mandai village in Datta Khel area. The helicopter hit…

Girl killed as rocket hits house in Kapisa

MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN): A young girl was killed and her six family members were wounded when a rocket hit their house in central Kapisa province on Sunday, an official said. The incident happened in Ghazikhel area of Tagab district during…

Insurgents attack medical evacuation helicopter

KABUL said on Saturday. Insurgents opened fire on the evacuation helicopter, marked with the universally recognised Red Cross symbol, on Friday as it approached the designated landing area near where the service member had been injured by an improvised explosive…

Police posts attacked in Nuristan

JALALABAD (PAN's Chitral district, on Tuesday, sparking a fierce gun-battle, officials said. Clashes were still ongoing after nearly 400 insurgents attacked police posts in Chitrash and Koshtal areas, 18 kilometers from Paroon, at 9am, police chief, Shamsur Rahman Zahid said.…

4 policemen dead in Ghazni insurgent attack

GHAZNICITY (PAN): Four policemen were killed and a fifth injured when their patrol vehicle was attacked by a group of insurgents in the southern province of Ghazni on Sunday, officials said. The attack took place in Kohna Deh village of…

11 dead as Kandahar clashes enter 2nd day

KANDAHAR CITY (PAN):  Nearly a dozen people, including six suicide bombers, were killed and another 44 injured as clashes between security forces and militants entered a second day in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, officials said. The insurgents, using heavy…

24 injured in Kandahar blasts, gunfire

KANDAHARCITY (PAN): As many as 24 people, including police and civilians, were injured after insurgents launched a string of attacks on government offices in southern Kandahar province on Saturday, officials said. Twenty blasts, including two suicide bombings, rocked the southern…

Kandahar governor’s office under attack

KANDAHARCITY (PAN): At least two explosions rocked on Saturday the southern city of Kandahar, while gunmen holed up in a nearby building traded fire with security forces guarding the governor's office, an official said. The Taliban fighters entered a four-storey…

Rebels attack another Nuristan town

JALALABAD (PAN): Militants attacked a district in eastern Nuristan province, sparking a fierce gun-battle with security forces, a senior official said on Wednesday. Six policemen were wounded when a rocket hit a security post in Wama district late on Tuesday…

NATO-led soldier killed in IED attack

KABUL) said. The servicemember's death was announced in a brief statement that deferred casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities in line with ISAF policy. More than 160 NATO-led soldiers have so far been killed across Afghanistan since the…

3 NATO-led soldiers killed

KABUL, the military alliance said on Friday. Two International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) servicemembers died on Thursday following an improvised explosive device (IED) strike in the south. A statement from the multinational force said a third soldier was killed in…

Rockets fired at Kabul airport

KABUL): Militants fired two rockets into the Kabul International Airport but the predawn attack caused no casualties, an official said on Thursday. "The rockets were likely fired from a position in Deh Sabz district," said Col. Mohammad Zahir, the crime…

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