LASHKARGAH (PAN offensive in southern Helmand province, officials said on Friday. US Marines and Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers are taking part in the joint operation that began in areas between Sangin and Kajaki districts four days ago. The governor's…
QALAT (PAN) in the Shahr Safa district of southern Zabul province, officials said on Friday. The overnight raid was conducted in an area between Malezo and Khatunak villages north of the district centre, where the Taliban were meeting to plan…
KABUL, where it has lost 75 soldiers over the past 10 years. In Paris, Defence Minister Gerard Longuet said in a radio interview on Wednesday that the first 200 French soldiers, stationed in the Sarobi district of Kabul province, would…
JAWZJAN: Two militant groups joined the government's peace process in northern Jawzjan province, officials said on Wednesday. Operating in Faizabad district, the fighters surrendered as a result of efforts by their group leaders, Mullah Borhan and Mullah Mohammad Nabi. Faqir…
ASADABAD (PAN) has acknowledged the killing of four civilians during an operation in the Asmar district of eastern Kunar province four days ago, a senior official said on Tuesday. Another six people from the same family were wounded in the…
KABUL): Six insurgent were killed and 30 others detained in a series of operations in different parts of the country over the past 24 hours, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. Afghan police, army and coalition forces conducted13 joint operations…
ASADABAD (PAN and Afghan troops over the past ten days in eastern Kunar province, officials said on Monday. Starting October 7, the operations were carried out in Narai, Ghaziabad and Asmar districts, where the militants had established check posts, the…
SAR-I-PUL (PAN fighters, were killed and five civilians wounded during a joint operation by Afghan and foreign soldiers in the northern province of Sar-i-Pul, an official said Saturday. The insurgents and civilians, including a woman, were killed when the International…
KHOST CITY (PAN) said. It appeared the emergency landing was forced by a technical problem, the NATO-led force's media office said. Crewmembers were rescued and the incident caused no casualties, the alliance added. But the Taliban claimed shooting down the…
GHAZNI: ISAF detained three suspects in the southern province of Ghazni, officials said Saturday. Provincial police chief Col. Zarawer Zahid said that no Afghan security forces were involved in the operation, which took place in the Qazi Qala area. He…
LASHKARGAH (PAN raid in the Nad Ali district of southern Helmand province Friday afternoon, local officials and residents said. ISAF is investigating the incident, the coaltion said in a statement. District police chief Maj. Shadi Khan told Pajhwok Afghan News…
KABUL on Friday, the alliance said. The soldier was killed in an insurgent attack in the Taliban-led force said. A day earlier, the multinational force announced the death of five servicemembers in different parts of the country. In line with…
KABUL) in central Maidan Wardak province on Thursday, an official said. The incident took place on main Kabul-Kandhar highway in Salar area of Syedabad district late in the afternoon, the governor's spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid, told Pajhwok Afghan News. However, no…
KABUL, the alliance said in a statement. The statement adds that two ISAF soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing while the third died from a non-battle related injury. On Thursday, another ISAF soldier was killed when an individual wearing…
ASADABAD (PAN-led forces in eastern Nuristan province, a senior official said on Monday. International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) soldiers also took away two policemen to their base following the strike in the checkpoint in Tarnak area of Wama district, Governor…
ISLAMABAD (PAN's Sindh province, an official said on Monday. At least 10 tankers were destroyed as unidentified gunmen attacked the convoy in the Khairpur town, about 260 miles northeast of Karachi, police official Ghulam Manzar told Pajhwok Afghan News. Six…
KABUL) said on Sunday. During the overnight raid in Daulatshah, the combined force targeted a Taliban facilitator, blamed for coordinating attacks against Afghan and coalition forces, the alliance said in a statement. In an effort to clear a compound associated…
KABUL) has condemned suicide attacks that killed and wounded more than 50 people in Tirinkot, the capital of central Uruzgan province. Multiple suicide bombers stormed several government buildings in the city, killing 19 people and wounding 37 others. The dead…
KABUL’s current crisis stems from a 2002 agreement with the United States. The agreement was signed by then-Interior Minister Mohammad Younis Qanuni, then-commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) General David McKiernan, and then-Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. Mohammad Younis…
KABUL): International troops will not intervene in areas where security has been transitioned to Afghan forces, though the fighting has not ended yet, the Ministry of Defence said. Addressing a press conference Wednesday, Defence Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Zahir Azimi…
FARYAB: Two guerrillas were killed during a fight with police in the Almar district, district chief Mohammad Omar said. The clash erupted after a group of insurgents stormed a police check-post in the Qurda Qala area, the district chief, he…
MEHTARLAM (PAN) said on Tuesday. However, residents alleged the dead were civilians. In search of the rebel leader blamed for facilitating suicide attacks in the area, the combined force raided a compound in the district, where several insurgents engaged the force…
JALALABAD (PAN attack on the entrance to a Jalalabad air base, an official said on Tuesday. At 8:30 pm on Monday, Taliban attacked the northeastern entrance to the base. Two Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers and two civilians were injured…
KABUL): Contradicting the International Security Assistance Force's view that the security switch has already taken place in the Afghan capital, Kabul police said on Monday the transfer was yet to be formalised. Earlier in the day, Dominic Medley, a spokesman…
