KABUL) said on Friday that a joint team was investigating the incident. Four Quran copies were burnt by US soldiers at the Bagram Airbase in central Parwan province on Tuesday night, sparking violent protests across the country. At least 17…
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…
WASHINGTON (PAN. “ISAF has complete respect for Islam and the reverence in which the Quran is held. We are very serious about making certain if someone failed to follow our rules, they will be held accountable,” a spokesman for the…
CHANGHCHARAN (PAN province, officials said on Wednesday. A dozen 12 officials had gone for a week-long professional training, but one of them died due to severe cold after their vehicles got stuck in deep snow in the Tarbolaq area of…
KABUL, the alliance said on Wednesday. The deaths were announced in a brief statement from the NATO-led force that neither revealed the soldiers' nationalities nor the exact location of the incident. Mostly American and British troops are deployed to southern…
KABUL by US soldiers, a controversy that sparked angry protests. Senators, who strongly condemned the alleged burning of copies of the holy book at the Bagram airfield on Monday night, decided to dispatch a team to the main US airbase…
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…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN regional command (south) said. An Article 32 Investigation is a thorough and impartial probe into charges and specifications before they may be referred to a general court-martial. The purpose of this pretrial investigation is to inquire into the…
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…
MAIMANA (PAN) air raid in northwestern Faryab province, the Afghan military said on Friday. The airstrike was conducted in the Atta Khan Khwaja area of Pashtun Ismail, the Taliban chief for Sabz Posh district, and local rebel commander Qari Feroz…
KABUL) said on Friday. 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. So far during the current year, 40 foreign troops, including 31 Americans,…
KABUL): Several caches of explosives and weapons were seized by Afghan and coalition forces during a string of joint operations in several provinces, the alliance said on Thursday. A joint force confiscated heavy machine guns, AK-47 assault rifles and rocket-propelled…
KABUL forces-led airstrike that killed eight children in central Kapisa province, his office said. The airstrike by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops struck the Giao village in Nijrab district on Thursday, killing eight children. A statement issued from…
KABUL) on Monday said discussions with allies and the Afghan government are ongoing to reach an agreement on a specific number of Afghan security forces after 2014. Speaking at a news conference in Kabul, the spokesman for NATO's International Security…
KABUL on Sunday said the alliance would continue its combat mission in the country until 2014, the previously agreed timeline for foreign soldiers withdrawal. Talking to reporters a day after returning to Kabul from the NATO defence ministers conference in…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Joint Afghan-international security forces have arrested two senior government officials along with some of their relatives on charges of links with insurgents in southeastern Khost province, officials said on Sunday. Gul Rahim Shah, the provincial transport…
KABUL as one-sided, but the multinational troops welcomed the document. The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) on Saturday released its report on civilian casualties in the Afghan conflict, saying the casualties rose for the fifth year in a row.…
KABUL late on Friday, the alliance said. In line with its policy, ISAF neither disclosed the exact location of the incident nor the nationality of the fallen servicemember. However, Fort Hood army website announced that the 49 years old US…
MAHMOOD RAQI (PAN province, officials said on Saturday. Several French troops had withdrawn from the two camps in the district, where a man wearing Afghan National Army uniform shot dead four French soldiers and injured 17 others on Dec. 29,…
KABUL) said on Wednesday. A statement from the NATO-led force said the cache consisted of approximately 27,272 kilograms of marijuana. “Security forces destroyed all drugs on site without incident.” In the same district, the joint force discovered 250 kilograms of…
KABUL, the alliance said on Wednesday. The ISAF servicemember was killed on Tuesday when the attacker in the ANA uniform opened fire on troops in the south, the media office of NATO-led troops said in a brief statement. In line…
KABUL, the alliance said. The death was announced in a brief statement that neither revealed the nationality of the fallen soldier nor the exact location of the incident. Mostly, US, British and Canadian soldiers are deployed to the volatile south…
GHAZNI CITY (PAN) has crashed in the southern province of Ghazni, officials said on Saturday. The unmanned aerial vehicle went down due to a technical fault in Deh Yak district on Friday evening, the governor’s spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News.…
KABUL, the alliance said on Saturday. The servicemember died following an insurgent attack on Friday, the NATO-led force said in a brief statement. In line with its policy, ISAF neither disclosed the exact location of the incident nor the nationality…
