HERAT CITY/ KABUL (PAN): Three Italian soldiers with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed during an operation in western Herat province on Monday, officials and the alliance said. The ISAF media office in Kabul announced the deaths in a…
KABUL): The death toll among children has reached 28 due to an ongoing cold wave that could become harsher in coming days, an international organisation said on Saturday. In a report, Save the Children said Afghanistan experienced the coldest winter…
KABUL-led airstrikes, saying mere apologies and condolences were no more acceptable to the people. Investigations by the teams appointed by President Hamid Karzai show 15 civilians, including women). Seven people of a family were killed in the Sawkai district of…
FAIZABAD (PAN): Avalanches killed four people and injured eight others in the rugged northeastern province of Badakhshan, an official said on Sunday. The first avalanche, triggered by days of snowfall, hit the Khonilar village of Raghistan district, killing three people,…
PESHAWAR (PAN’s northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Monday, an official said. The attack happened inside the residence of a local leader of the Ansar-ul-Islam militant group, Haji Ghulam Akhundzada, in the Pakha Ghulam area, a senior police official said. Siraj…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN and Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers in central Kapisa province on Tuesday. District cheif of Ala Sayee district Mullah Muhammad told Pajhwok Afghan News that the gunbattle occurred at about 4:00pm in the Ali Shah Khel area.…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): The toll from Wednesday's bomb explosions in the southern province of Helmand has mounted to 17 dead and 23 wounded, officials said on Thursday. A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-rigged motorcycle near a police foot patrol late on…
KABUL): Fifteen Afghans were among dozens of people wounded in a string of attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq on Monday, a media report said. At least one pilgrim was killed in a roadside bombing, targeting devotees on their way…
NEILI (PAN): Unidentified gunmen shot dead two civilians and wounded as many others in the Khadeer district of central Daikundi province, officials said on Tuesday. The incident took place late on Monday night in the Shakar Dara area, Abdul Qadir…
KABUL National Coalition on Sunday strongly condemned a suicide attack that killed 20 people and injured scores of others in northern Takhar province. The bomber struck a funeral procession in the Kunjak area on the outskirts of Taloqan, the provincial…
KABUL): The death toll from the consumption of poisonous alcohol at an engagement ceremony in Kabul has reached seven, after two more died in hospitals, officials and witnesses said on Sunday. The incident took place on Saturday night in a…
KABUL): Eighteen insurgents have been killed and another 31 detained in different provinces over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Interior said on Saturday. Weapons and ammunitions were also seized. Thirteen militants were killed and eight others detained during…
KABUL) on Tuesday said an investigation into an airstrike that killed several Pakistani troops in the Mohmand tribal region was yet to be completed. The predawn attack on Saturday killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and injured 13 others near the border…
ASADABAD (PAN): Two teenage cousins were killed and their 16 others family members wounded after a rocket hit a house in the Matongi district of eastern Kunar province, an official said on Saturday. The insurgents fired the rocket targeting a…
KABUL): The Ministry of Defence on Wednesday claimed the second phase of the “Sword Operation” inflicted heavy casualties on rebels, including several Haqqani commanders. The joint Afghan-ISAF border in eastern provinces of insurgents, a spokesman for the ministry told a…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Four attackers and as many security guards were among nine people killed after a group of bombers stormed a UN office in the southern province of Kandahar on Monday, an official said. A group of suicide assailants, armed…
KABUL, the alliance said in a statement. The statement adds that two ISAF soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing while the third died from a non-battle related injury. On Thursday, another ISAF soldier was killed when an individual wearing…
KABUL fighters have been killed over the past three months in operations untertaken by the Afghan National Army (ANA) in different provinces across the country, officials said on Wednesday. Major Gen. Zahir Azimi, a Defence Ministry spokesman, told a press…
KABUL, ISAF said in a statement on Tuesday. Three soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb and another killed in an insurgent attack, the ISAF media office said in a statement delivered to Pajhwok Afghan News. ISAF did not give…
JALALABAD (PAN): At least three people have been killed and 12 others injured in the fighting between two tribes in eastern Nangarhar province over government land, officials said on Thursday. The predawn fighting erupted at 3:00 am between the Ali…
JALALABAD (PAN): At least three people have been killed and 12 others injured in the fighting between two tribes in eastern Nangarhar province over government land, officials said on Thursday. The predawn fighting erupted at 3:00 am between the Ali…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN): One policeman was killed and six others were injured when a police vehicle flipped over in northern Sar-i-Pul province, an official said on Sunday. The overnight accident took place in the Oqaf area of Sancharak district, where police…
TALOQAN (PAN commanders in northern Takhar province, officials said on Thursday. The clash between Abdul Qahar and Abdul Awal occurred late on Wednesday night in the Kham Aab area of Farkhar district, police officer Attiqullah Haidari told Pajhwok Afghan News.…
ISLAMABAD(PAN): One Pakistani paramilitary soldier was killed and four others were wounded in a suicide bomb attack on their post in the Khyber tribal region on Friday, officials said. The attack happened at around 11:30am in the Mian Ghudi area…
