Eight people including children and women were injured in a magnetic bomb explosion in the capital of western Herat province on Wednesday, officials said. Aminullah Amarkhel, provincial police chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News that a magnetic bomb…
The police chief for Pusthrod district of western Farah province escaped unhurt from a roadside bombing, but a civilian was killed and two others wounded during a clash erupted immediately after blast, an official said Thursday. Naser…
Two policemen and a civilian have been killed and two other policemen wounded in a roadside bombing in the capital of western Farah province, an official said on Saturday. Governor’s spokesman, Naser Mahri, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Wednesday said 42 people were killed and 67 others wounded in Tuesday’s suicide bombing in the Orgun district of southeastern Paktika province. The blast took place at around 11:00 on Tuesday in…
Nearly 90 people were killed and more than 40 others wounded in a powerful explosion in the Orgun district of southeastern Paktika province on Tuesday, officials said. Malim Raza Kharotai, the district's administrative chief, told Pajhwok Afghan News…
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…
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…
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…
KABUL and children in a roadside bombing in southern Kandahar province. "The enemies of Afghanistan continue to demonstrate their complete disregard for human life and peace by deliberately placing IEDs along well-traveled roads or populated areas, indiscriminately targeting innocent Afghan…
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…
JALALABAD (PAN): Seven people of family were killed in a roadside bombing in eastern Laghman province on Monday morning, an official said. The car they were travelling in struck the roadside bomb in Hakimabad Khwar area at about 7am, the…
KABUL, the alliance said on Thursday. The death was announced in a brief statement from the NATO-led force that neither gave the soldier’s nationality nor the exact location of the blast. However, mostly US troops are stationed in the east.…
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 (PAN): Six people were killed and 37 others wounded on Thursday when an explosives-laden car ploughed into a convoy of foreign military convoy in Kabul, officials and witnesses said. The suicide attack happened close to the residence of a…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): As victims of a Wednesday's suicide attack were laid to rest in northern Kunduz province, police on Thursday said eight suspects had been detained in connection with the blast that also killed family members of the Wolesi Jirga speaker.…
KABUL (PAN): A suicide bomber exploded his explosives-packed motorbike at the entrance of the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the heavily fortified Kabul city on Saturday, killing at least nine people, including military officials and civilians, an official said. At…
KABUL (PAN): The National Directorate of Security (NDS), the spy service, on Wednesday said recent group suicide attacks on government entities in Kabul were beyond the "Taliban's ability", accusing "a strong foreign intelligence network" behind the assaults. Two bombers blew…
KABUL (PAN): Seven civilians and four armed rebels were killed during a predawn operation in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province on Sunday, officials said. The governor's office said the raid was carried out by Afghan and foreign…
CHARIKAR): Four people, including two bomb makers, were killed when an improvised explosives device went off prematurely inside a house in central Parwan province on Friday, a police official said on Saturday. The two bomb makers were at work on…
JALALABAD (PAN): Afghan security forces gunned down eight militants before they approached their intended target in the eastern Nangarhar province, a ministry official said on Sunday. A Ministry of Interior statement said the armed insurgents, backed by two suicide bombers,…
KABUL, Turkey on Wednesday condemned multiple suicide attacks in Nimroz and Kunduz provinces. “We have learned with deep sorrow that 42 people died and more than 130 people were injured in the attacks perpetrated at different locations in Nimroz and…
