Civilian casualties

LASHKARGAH (PAN): Three civilians were killed and six others wounded when a car struck a roadside bomb in the Marja district of southern Helmand province

WASHINGTON (PAN very seriously and tries to minimise them, the Pentagon said Tuesday. Pentagon Press Secretary George Little told an off-camera news conference the US

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

KABUL’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

GHAZNI CITY (PAN): At least 18 people were killed in a head-on collision between two passenger buses on the Kabul-Kandahar highway in southern Ghazni province

ASADABAD (PAN) airstrike in eastern Kunar province, a senior official said on Wednesday. Five children, four women, a man and three insurgent commanders were killed

LAGHKARGAH (PAN were among six civilians died in a roadside bombing in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province, officials said on Saturday. The

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

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

LASHKARGAH (PAN): A man, his wife and two daughters were killed when a landmine, the Taliban‘s weapon of choice, tore through a passenger van in

HERAT CITY (PAN): Industrialists in western Herat province on Thursday announced a three-day halt to production activity to mourn the death of a colleague’s son

LASHKARGAH (PAN): Two people were killed and seven others sustained injuries when a police pick-up crashed into a car in the Nahr-i-Saraj district of southern