KABUL, the alliance said on Monday. The servicemember was killed late on Sunday following an improvised explosive device (IED) strike, the NATO-led force said in a brief statement. In line with its policy, ISAF neither disclosed the nationality of the…
QUETTA (PAN's southwestern province of Baluchistan near Afghan border on Sunday afternoon, an official said. Four assailants on motorbikes set fire to the NATO containers in the Dasht area of Mastung district, police officer Mohabbat Khan told Pajhwok Afghan News.…
GHAZNI (PAN) airstrike in southern Ghazni province, officials said on Saturday. The raid on a police checkpoint took place in the 2nd police district of Ghazni City on Friday night, the provincial police chief, Brig. Gen. Zarawar Zahid, told Pajhwok Afghan…
KABUL on Thursday, the alliance said. Two of the troops died in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, while a third was killed in an insurgent assault in the east, the NATO-led force said in a brief statement. In line…
KABUL late Tuesday, an official said. The engagement erupted after dozens of militants, armed with small and heavy weapons, stormed a joint military base in Barmal district, governor’s spokesman Mukhlis Afghan told Pajhwok Afghan News on Wednesday. Mukhlis said between…
JALALABAD (PAN) soldiers killed a civilian and arrested three others during an overnight operation in the Behsud district of eastern Nangarhar province, an official and residents said on Monday. The pre-dawn operation was carried out in the Chinyar village at…
QALAT (PAN) in the southern province of Zabul, officials said on Thursday. The arrests came during a predawn raid on a house in the Zozgari area on the outskirts of Qalat, the capital of the province, Zabul police chief, Brig.…
KABUL and the US Embassy are assisting the Ministry of Interior to set up an Afghan force to take over from private security firms after an assessment that the planned disbanding of the firms is unlikely to be met in…
JALALABAD (PAN) airstrike in eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Wednesday. The incident occurred late on Tuesday night in the Wazir area of Khogyani district, Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the governor's spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. Shafiqullah, a resident, said he…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN) airstrike in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday night in Chak district, Shahidullah Shahid, the governor’s spokesman, told Pajhwok Afghan News. He said the insurgents intended to fire missiles…
KABUL-led forces said on Monday. Insurgents had failed to achieve their goals due to several joint operations by Afghan and International Security Assistance Force soldiers, the spokesman told a news conference in Kabul. Carsten Jacobson said the anti-government elements were…
KANDAHAR CITY (PAN) soldiers and one of their interpreters in central Uruzgan province on Saturday, an official said. The shooting happened during a training session in Tirinkot, the provincial capital, Brig. Gen. Abdul Hamid Hamid, a Kandahar-based commander of the…
BADAKHSHAN: A Taliban group leader has been detained by intelligence operatives in Faizabad city, the capital of northeastern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. The National Directorate of Security official, who did not want to be named, identified the…
ASADABAD (PAN in eastern Kunar province, officials said on Friday. The air strikes took place in Narai and Asmar district, where the insurgents planned to attack foreign military bases, a statement from the NATO-led force said. It gave no further…
JALALABAD (PAN-led troops said on Friday they had arrested five suspected militants during an operation in the Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province, but locals put the number of detainees at 10. The arrests during a raid in the Hakimabad…
KABUL on Friday, the alliance said. The soldier was killed in a roadside bomb 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 volatile south…
JALALABAD (PAN's Independent Human Rights Commission (IHRC) on Tuesday voiced concern over cross-border incursions, hurdles to the freedom of expression and increasing land-grab incidents in eastern provinces. Several individuals suffered casualties and many families were displaced as a result of…
KABUL): A number of suspected insurgents were detained and a narcotics cache seized during an operation in southern Kandahar province, the International Security Assistance Force said on Tuesday. An Afghan-coalition patrol arrested the suspects in Registan district on Monday, the…
KABUL) helicopter was slightly damaged in an insurgent attack in central Kapisa province, the alliance said on Tuesday. The incident took place on Monday afternoon when militants fired at the copter supporting Afghan security forces in Ala Sai district, the…
KABUL) said on Monday. Led by Afghans and were supported by ISAF, Operations Sword and Knife Edge are conducted along the Afghanistan border. The joint military push was launched last week. The offensives were focused around Kabul, southern and eastern…
KABUL). But the house endorsed with a majority vote four other agreements on the creation of a South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation university, a SAARC and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on social and trade issues and transit trade…
KABUL, the alliance announced on Monday. One soldier perished in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in the south on Monday, while another was killed in an explosion in the east a day earlier, the multinational force said in separate…
KABUL on Sunday, the alliance announced. The servicemembers were killed in insurgent attacks in the south and east, the NATO-led forced said in brief statements. In accordance with its policy, ISAF deferred casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities.…
ASADABAD (PAN, officials said on Saturday. The delegation included senior Afghan officials and International Security Assistance Force commander in Afghanistan, Gen. John Allen. Defence Minister Gen. Abdur Rahim Wardak, Interior Minister Bismillah Khan Muhammadi, National Directorate of Intelligence (NDS Defence…
