HERAT CITY (PAN): A civilian was killed and another injured when the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers opened fire on a civilian vehicle in western Herat province, officials said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Wednesday in the…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Three Arab fighters were among 14 insurgents killed in different security incidents in Khaki Safid and Bala Baluk district of western Farah province, an official said on Tuesday. A clash erupted between the rebels and police during…
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…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): A 26-year-old resident of southern Helmand province, Noor Ahmad, who was released from 45 days in Afghan Taliban's captivity in the southern Pakistani city of Quetta, described the period the most disturbing in his life as he lost…
KABUL (PAN): For the first time in six years, civilian casualties in Afghanistan’s armed conflict dropped by 12 percent in 2012, the United Nations said in its annual report on Tuesday. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) prepared the Annual Report…
KABUL (PAN) Dozens of Afghan women rally to denounce violence against women in Kabul on Thursday. The demonstrators want violence against women to be abolished or at least decreased in Afghanistan, but unfortunately it is increasing day to day, rights…
HERAT CITY (PAN): A border policeman was killed and his three colleagues sustained shrapnel injuries when a roadside bomb tore through their vehicle in the Gulran district of western Herat province on Saturday, officials said. The blast took place in…
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): Seventy-seven members of the NATO-backed Afghan Local Police (ALP) were referred to the military prosecution office for committing various crimes since the militias were raised two years ago in various provinces, a senior official said on Monday. ALP…
HERAT CITY (PAN): At least three people died and four others sustained injuries as flash floods unleashed by heavy rains hit 15 districts in western Herat and Badghis provinces, officials said on Sunday. Floodwaters inundated many parts of Herat City,…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): Two militants were killed and five others wounded during a clash with security forces in the Marja district of southern Helmand province, the governor’s office said on Saturday. Two fighters were captured alive during an operation by police…
JALALABAD (PAN): Violence against women increased this year, compared with 2011, in eastern Nangarhar province, an official said on Tuesday. Women’s Affair Director Anisa Imrani told Pajhwok Afghan News 70 cases of violence against women were registered in 2012, up…
Heart (PAN): A 20-years-old woman was beheaded in the 7th district of western Herat province, officials said on Wednesday. Magul was beheaded on Tuesday night in 7th district of western Heart province and her dad body was found outside her…
ASADABAD (PAN): Residents and political workers in Kunar province on Monday staged a demonstration to condemn periodic attacks from Pakistan into eastern Afghan provinces. Over the past few months, a dozen people have been killed and more than 40 others…
KABUL were among 11 people killed in a string of security-related incidents in different parts of the country, officials said on Saturday. The militants killed the local police force members after keeping them in captivity for three days in the…
FAIZABAD (PAN): The bodies of 14 people buried under a massive snow avalanche were recovered while six others are still missing in northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. The avalanche happened in a remote village of Nasi district…
KABUL, the alliance said on Friday. In a brief statement, ISAF said the soldier was injured in a roadside bomb blast but it did not reveal the exact location and the time of the incident. Mostly American soldiers are stationed…
KABUL said on Saturday. In a statement, Michael Keating expressed his sympathy to the families of 50 dead Afghans and four others injured in the March 4 avalanche that buried an entire village of 199 people in the Shaki district.…
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): A gangland war between two heavily-armed factions lead to the death of three people and a dozen injured in Pul-i-Hesarak district of northern Baghlan province, police said on Saturday. Police chief Col. Asadullah Shirzad told Pajhwok Afghan News…
KABUL, the alliance said on Wednesday. In line with its policy, the NATO insurgents. But the Ministry of Defence in London said the blast hit British soldiers who had been on patrol, in an armoured vehicle in Helmand province. The…
ISLAMABAD (PAN’s northwestern Kohistan district on Tuesday, officials said. The incident took place in the Chilas area of the mountainous town on Karakorum highway, the district police chief, Sher Muhammad, told Pajhwok Afghan News. The ill-fated bus was on its…
KABUL): Two foreign advisors at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) were found dead on Saturday, the ministry said, without explaining who killed them. The foreign nationals were killed inside the ministry late on Saturday noon, a brief statement from MoI…
KABUL) soldiers on Thursday, the alliance said. The shooting took place in eastern Afghanistan-led force neither revealed the troops’ nationalities nor the exact location of the incident. But the Nangarhar governor’s spokesman told reporters in Jalalabad the US soldiers were…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN) command in southern Kandahar province, the Albanian defence ministry and Afghan officials said on Tuesday. The Albanian defence ministry confirmed two of its soldiers were killed when an Afghan policeman turned his gun on the international troops…
