KABUL): In a dramatic request, President Hamid Karzai on Thursday asked the United States to pull out all its troops from Afghan villages and confine them to bases in response to Sunday’s massacre in southern Kandahar province. Karzai made the…
KABUL, the alliance said on Thursday. The servicemember’s death was announced in a brief statement from the ISAF media office that neither revealed the soldier’s nationality nor the exact location. Mostly American troops are deployed to eastern provinces of Afghanistan.…
KABUL earlier. “ISAF offers its profound regret and deepest condolences to the victims and their families. We pledge to all the noble people of Afghanistan our commitment to a rapid and thorough investigation,” ISAF spokesman, Gen. Carsten Jacobson, said at…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN): Eleven of the sixteen bodies killed by US soldiers last Sunday morning, in Panjwae district of southern Kandahar province, were later burned using cloth and blankets by the perpetrators, say eye witnesses. Local resident in Najibyan, Habibullah…
KABUL and the US on Friday formally signed a breakthrough agreement on the transfer of the US detention facility in central Parwan province to the Afghan government control. Gen. John R. Allen, the American military commander, and Abdul Rahim Wardak,…
KABUL leaders were arrested during a joint operation by an Afghan-coalition force in Maidan Shahr, the capital of central Maidan Wardak province on Friday, the alliance said. Two of the leaders planned and conducted attacks against Afghan and coalition forces…
KABUL said on Thursday. One of the leaders, responsible for suicide bombings in Badakhshan and Kunduz provinces, was wounded during the offensive and was being treated, the alliance said in a statement. The second leader was a bomb-making expert and…
KABUL) to the Afghan government control, a presidential spokesman said on Thursday. Talking to Pajhwok Afghan News in an interview, Aimal Faizi said a high-ranking military delegation had been constituted to conduct the handover process. “It is one of the…
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…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN in northern Kunduz province, the alliances said on Tuesday. In a brief statement, ISAF said the individuals were held during a joint operation by Afghan and international servicemembers. However, the force neither revealed the detainees’ nationalities nor…
LASHKARGAH (PAN Gen. Johan Allen on Monday said his troops would stay in Afghanistan beyond the 2014 deadline if the Afghans desired so. During a visit to southern Helmand province, Gen. Allen, accompanied by Afghan High Peace Council deputy head…
KABUL burning incident would have a negative impact on their joint counterinsurgency operations. They suggest foreigners should avoid the mistakes that could provoke Afghan soldiers’ sentiments. Six US soldiers have been killed by their Afghan counterparts after the alleged desecration…
KABUL’s lawless tribal region of Khyber, officials said on Friday. The insurgents were killed in a joint Afghan-International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) operation late on Thursday night, a spokesman for the 201st Selab Military Corps told Pajhwok Afghan News. …
KABUL secretary-general says the US-Afghan strategic cooperation agreement be signed ahead of the Chicago conference, but President Hamid Karzai insists on his government’s conditions being met. Karzai and NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen discussed the strategic pact providing for US bases…
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KABUL) soldiers were shot dead by a soldier of the Afghan National Army (ANA) in southern Kandahar province on Thursday, officials said. The shooting took place in the Sangsar area of Zherai district at 2:30am, district chief Niaz Muhammad Sarhadi…
KABUL burning incident would be announced next week, a legal advisor said on Wednesday. The alleged desecration at the hands of US forces at the Bagram airbase in central Parwan province has sparked violent nationwide protests, leaving at least 30…
TIRINKOT (PAN. The peaceful protest was ended at 3pm in Trinikot, the provincial capital. But the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) media office rejected the allegation as baseless. “We have no report of Quran burning or any mishandling of religious…
KABUL): The commander of the International Security Assistance Force on Monday joined President Karzai in condemning a suicide car bomb attack in eastern Nangarhar province. At least 9 Afghans, including civilians, security guards and an Afghan soldier, were killed in…
KABUL (HIA) leader Gulbadin Hekmatyar has spurned the strategy of the United States and the Karzai administration for ending the decade-long conflict as unacceptable. In an exclusive interview with Pajhwok Afghan News, the former prime minister blamed Moscow and Washington…
KABUL by US troops, on Sunday renewed his call for calm, as violent protest continued in different parts of the country. Addressing a news briefing a day after the killing of two US military officers inside the high-security Ministry of…
KABUL) recalled all its military personnel serving at Afghan ministries, hours after two US advisors were found dead inside the heavily-guarded interior ministry in Kabul. The foreign nationals were shot dead late on Saturday, the fifth day of violent nationwide…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): One militant was killed and 15 others detained during a string of operations in various provinces over the past 24 hours, an official said on Sunday. The 15 suspects were detained by Afghan and International Security Assistance…
KABUL’s desecration in the future. A number of reliougs scholars from Nangarhar province, headed by Afghanistan Council head Qayadamudin Kashaaf, issued the call at a meeting with President Hamid Karzai. A statement from Karzai’s office quoted Maulvi-led soldiers conducted night…
