Militants laced with heavy and light weapons attacked a district police headquarters in eastern Nangarhar province and the ensuing clash left six attackers dead and nearly a dozen others wounded, an official said on Wednesday. Police and civilians…
Two children were killed and three others sustained injuries when a rocket allegedly fired by Taliban insurgents hit a house in southern Helmand province, an official said on Thursday. The incident took place in Sarchina area of Sangin…
Five insurgents and one Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier were killed during an overnight clash in eastern Kunar province, police said on Thursday. The clash in the Saw area of Narai district broke out late on Wednesday night,…
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…
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…
KABUL (PAN): A large number of people coming all the way from central Uruzgan province staged a protest rally in Kabul on Monday, calling for the public hanging of a serial killer, Hakimullah Shujayee. Shujayee, a resident of southern Ghazni…
JALALABAD (PAN): Civilians, insurgents and security personnel suffered casualties during an operation that sparked gun-battles in the Hesarak district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Monday. Four militants were killed and several others wounded and their weapons and ammunitions…
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…
MAIMANA (PAN, were killed and two others wounded in a roadside bombing in the Pashtunkot district of northwestern Faryab province on Thursday, an official said. The casualties occurred when a car struck a roadside bomb in the Surkhab village, the…
JALALABAD (PAN): Four insurgents were killed and two others wounded during a clash with police in Surkhrod district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Wednesday. The pre-dawn clash broke out around 3am Wednesday in the Shamsh Pur area,…
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…
KABUL (PAN): Triggered by a brazen assault on the Kabul International Airport early Monday morning, clashes between insurgents and security forces ended with the killing of all seven attackers, the Ministry of Interior said. Two of the militants blew themselves…
KABUL were killed and eight others detained as a result of operations across the country over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Friday. Afghan police, army and intelligence personnel, backed by coalition forces, conducted the…
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…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Twin bomb explosions rocked southern Kandahar province on Friday evening, killing and wounding dozens of people, officials said. At least nine bodies and 70 wounded people have been brought to the Mirwais Civil Hospital in Kandahar City…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN): A runaway woman was shot dead during a clash between security personnel and robbers in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said on Friday. Shabnam, hailing from Mazar-i-Sharif, eloped with Kabul resident Naveed to Takhar province on…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN): Around 150 schoolgirls were poisoned in Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of northern Balkh province, on Tuesday, an official said. Col. Abdul Razzaq Qadiri, the provincial police chief, confirmed to Pajhwok Afghan News the incident took place at the Khurasan…
KUNDUZ (PAN): Hundreds of university students on Saturday staged a protest against the killing of two fellows in northern Kunduz province, blocking a busy highway and seeking punishment for the culprits. Abdullah Mujahid and Muzamil Siddiqui had gone missing on…
JALALABAD (PAN): Thousands of people rallied in Jalalabad, the capital of eastern Nangarhar province, against Pakistan on Thursday, supporting Afghan security forces. Afghan forces pulled down a border gate following a seven-hour clash with Pakistani troops in the Goshta district…
TIRINKOT (PAN): Six people of a family were killed and wounded in a roadside bombing in the Charchino district of central Uruzgan province, an official said on Wednesday. A man and two of his children were killed and three women…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Four civilians were killed and eight others wounded in a bomb blast in the Shah Walikot district of southern Kandahar province on Tuesday, an official said. The target was an Uruzgan police patrol vehicle, the governor’s spokesman…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Relatives and residents of western Herat province on Thursday refused to bury the dead bodies of 13 Afghans executed in Iran until an international probe into the deaths was launched. Placed in coffins, the bodies were on…
KABUL (ARCS), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) on Wednesday strongly condemned the killing of two ARCS workers in northern Jawzjan province by unknown assailants.…
