KABUL (PAN): NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) lost its 566 servicemembers in 2011, showing a 21 percent decline in the fatalities compared to 711 deaths in 2010. According to the figures by a causality monitoring website www.iCasualties.org, most of…
PARAKH (PAN) withdrew from central Panjsher province, officials said on Thursday. As part of security transition from foreign soldiers to Afghan security forces, US troops based in Panjsher handed control to Afghans, Governor Kiramuddin Karim told Pajhwok Afghan News. The governor…
KABUL, the alliance said on Wednesday. Tuesday's deaths were announced in a brief statement from the NATO-led force that neither revealed the servicemembers' nationalities nor the exact location of the incident. Mostly American troops are deployed to eastern provinces of…
ASADABAD (PAN): Residents of a remote valley in eastern Kunar province on Monday protested against night-time searches of their homes by international troops and Afghan commandos. In front of the provincial council office in Asadabad, a large number of residents…
KABUL in a statement also said its five troops died following an improvised explosive device attack. The ISAF statement did not provide further details, but reports said the soldiers were on patrol close to their base in Ghazni when the…
KABUL-led troops continued to take place, it could hinder a strategic partnership agreement with the US, a presidential spokesman said on Wednesday. Despite renewed objections from President Hamid Karzai, a spokesman for the NATO-led forces on Monday said the US-led…
KABUL on Monday said US-led forces will increasingly take the lead in night-raids, insisting not a single shot was fired in 85 percent of such operations. A spokesman for the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said night raids remained the…
GARDEZ (PAN-led troops in southeastern Paktia province. The predawn raid by NATO and Afghan forces on the house of Paktia Counternarcotics Department head, Hafizullah Ahmadzai, left a woman dead and four others females injured. Ahmadzai was arrested along with his…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN-led troops in southern Kandahar province, an official said on Saturday. The insurgents were planting mines in the Mazrai area of Maiwand district when they targeted by an ISAF spy aircraft, Zalmay Ayyubi, the governor's spokesman, told Pajhwok…
BADGHIS: Two Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in northwestern Badghis province, an official said on Thursday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, a National Directorate of Security official told Pajhwok Afghan News a home-made bomb…
KABUL, the alliance said on Thursday. The soldier was killed on Wednesday in an insurgent attack, an ISAF statement said, without revealing the servicemember's nationality or the exact location. Mostly, US, British and Canadian soldiers are deployed to the restive…
SHARAN (PAN's troubled tribal region of South Waziristan, an official said. A day after his arrival in Kabul on an unannounced trip, Panetta told troops Pakistan should take more steps to secure its side of the border, the Paktika governor's…
KABUL. In late November, 24 Pakistani soldiers were killed during a NATO-led raid on their check-post in the Salala area of the Mohmand tribal region near the Afghanistan border. As a mark of protest, Pakistan closed a key ISAF supply…
QUETTA (PAN's southwestern Balochistan province, an official said on Monday. One of their drivers was also killed when 200 armed men opened fire on the tankers in front of a hotel in the Dadar village of Bolan area on Sunday…
QUETTA (PAN's southwestern Balochistan province near the Afghan border on Sunday. The incident took place at the Mezai terminal near the Qala-i-Abdullah locality in the afternoon, a local reporter said. The gunmen also seized the drivers, he added. Nimatullah Sarhadi…
KABUL): The International Security Assistance Force commander on Tuesday strongly condemned the roadside bombing in Chora district of Uruzgan province. Gen. John R. Allen called Monday's explosion that resulted in the deaths of innocent civilians the latest example of the…
KABUL and the international community on the success of the Bonn Conference. "I congratulate President Karzai and all the delegates at the Bonn Conference for selflessly choosing to build a sustained future of peace, stability and prosperity for Afghanistan," Gen.…
KABUL but some of them while stressing upon their presence said if they left the country, civil war might start again. Khwaja Muhammad Naistani, lecturer in Literature Faculty of Kabul University told Pajhwok Afghan News, foreign forces were acting against…
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…
JALALABAD (PAN) troops in the eastern province of Nangarhar, the alliance said on Tuesday. The operation was conducted on Tuesday morning in Surkhrod district, ISAF said in a statement, accusing the detainees of delivering supplies to insurgents in the area. "During…
KABUL-led troops, together with their Afghan counterparts, are investigating alleged civilian deaths during a security operation in southern Kandahar province, the alliance said on Friday. A day earlier, President Hamid Karzai denounced the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) airstrike that…
KABUL) officials on Tuesday. ISAF trops had come to Afghanistan in response to an invitation from the Afghan government and the decision of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), the NATO civilian representative spokesman said. Dominic Medley told a joint…
KABUL in Kabul. The traditional jirga was held to advise the government on the strategic cooperation pact with the US. During the four-day tribal assembly, Afghan forces put in place tight security arrangements. In a statement from…
KABUL, the alliance said on Tuesday. One of the servicemembers was killed following an insurgent attack while the second soldier died in a roadside bombing on Monday, the NATO-led troops, said in a brief statement. In line with its policy,…
