KHOST CITY (PAN) airstrike in southeastern Khost province, an Afghan official said on Friday. In the wake of the overnight air raid in the Lakan area on the periphery of Khost City, the provincial capital, two suspects were detained, a…
KABUL's southern heartland on Wednesday. The death was announced in a brief statement from the NATO-led force that neither revealed the soldier's nationality nor the exact location of the bombing in the restive south. With the latest fatality, the death…
KABUL (PAN): Carsten Jacobson, spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) along with Dominic Medley, spokesperson for the NATO senior civilian representative to Afghanistan. Address a joint press conference in Kabul. They said the killing of French troops by an…
KABUL) said on Tuesday. In line with its policy, ISAF neither disclosed the exact location of the incident nor the nationality of the fallen servicemember. Mostly American, British and Canadian soldiers are deployed to the restive south -- the heartland…
WASHINGTON (PAN in the wake of the killing of four French troops, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hoped that Paris would not take such an extreme step. "We are in close contact with our French colleagues, and we have…
KABUL. The soldiers were shot dead by their Afghan counterpart in Tagab district earlier in the day. The suspected killer was apprehended, a brief statement from the International Security Assistance Force said. A local security source confided to Pajhwok Afghan…
MAHMOOD RAQI/KABUL) said. The suspected killer was apprehended, a brief statement from the alliance said, without giving the NATO-led troops' nationalities or the exact location of the shooting. But a local security source confided to Pajhwok Afghan News that four…
KABUL, the alliance said on Friday. With the cause of the crash under investigation, initial reporting indicated there was no enemy activity in the area at the time of the crash, the NATO-led force said. In line with its policy,…
KABUL, the alliance said on Thursday. The soldier was killed following an improvised explosive device (IED) attack late on Wednesday, the NATO-led force said in a brief statement. In line with its policy, ISAF neither disclosed the exact location of…
KHOST CITY (PAN): Foreign troops detained a district development council member along with three of his relatives in southeastern Khost province, an official said on Tuesday. International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers arrested Kaptan along with his son and two…
KABUL), praising the local police role in maintaining security as significant, on Monday said the force strength would be increased from the current 11,000 to 30,000. ISAF spokesman Carsten Jacobson told a joint press conference with the interior ministry spokesman,…
KABUL (PAN): Three people were killed in a local helicopter crash in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province on Monday, officials said. The helicopter went down in the Shawal area of the district at 11am, district police chief…
KABUL, the alliance said on Saturday. In line with its policy, the NATO-led force did not reveal the servicemember's nationality. With Friday's fatality, the death toll for ISAF has reached 14. Last year, the deadliest for international soldiers in Afghanistan,…
KABUL. "Frankly, a peace process led by foreigners, whoever they might be, would simply not deliver the sort of peace which Afghanistan needs, it has to be Afghan to Afghan," the NATO senior civilian representative said. In an interview with…
QALAT (PAN): An Afghan National Army (ANA) soldier on Sunday opened fire on US troops, wounding two of them in the southern province of Zabul, an official said. The shooting took place at the 205th Atal Military Corps playground, ANA…
ASADABAD/LASHKARGAH (PAN): A 330 metres long bridge on the Kunar River was inaugurated in Sawakai district of the eastern province on Sunday. Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahidi, inaugurating the 10-metre wide bridge, said the USAID-funded project accounted for $4.5 million (222…
KHOST CITY (PAN) soldiers were gutted after in an explosion in southeastern Khost province, an official said on Friday. The incident took place on the southern outskirts of Khost City, the provincial capital, at a parking facility late on Thursday,…
KABUL, the alliance announced on Friday, taking the death toll for foreign troops this month to 10. Three ISAF soldiers killed on Thursday in an improvised explosive device attack in the south, the force said in a statement, which issued…
KABUL): Hundreds of kilograms of drugs were seized by a joint Afghan-international security force during an operation in southern Kandahar province, the alliance said on Tuesday. The narcotics, including 1000 kilograms of hashish and 50 kilograms of marijuana seeds, were…
KABUL, Jan 01, 2012: (PAN) The NATO-led forces had made incredible seizures of drugs in Afghanistan last year, dealing a blow to the finances of the Taliban-led insurgents, a spokesman for the multinational force said on Monday. Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson,…
KABUL, marking the first foreign troops’ casualty in 2012, the alliance said on Tuesday. The servicemember died following an improvised explosive device attack, the Taliban-led troops said in a brief statement. In line with its policy, ISAF neither revealed the…
KABUL-led insurgents, a spokesman for the multinational force said on Monday. Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson, spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force, told a joint news conference with the Interior Ministry spokesman, Zahir Azimi, narcotics trafficking had been a key…
KABUL: A combined Afghan and coalition security force discovered three weapon caches during a routine patrol in Tirinkot, the capital of central Uruzgan province, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Monday. Seized on Sunday, the caches consisted of…
KABUL, the alliance said. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) servicemember died as a result of a non-battle related injury in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, ISAF said in a brief statement. In line with its policy, ISAF neither disclosed the…
