KABUL): An illegal foreign security company has been disbanded and its owner detained in Kabul, the Ministry of Interior announced on Friday. A statement from the ministry said 129 weapons and 148 walkie-talkies were recovered from the Guard World Afghan,…
QALAT (PAN) soldiers were killed in a plane crash in southern Zabul province on Tuesday, officials said. The NATO-led force said the cause of the crash was under investigation, but initial reporting indicated there was no enemy activity in the…
ISLAMABAD (PAN Army Chief Gen. Raheel Sharif in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. The two military officials discussed issues of mutual interest during the meeting at the General Headquarters (GHQ), according to the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR). A statement…
KABUL (PAN): An explosives-laden car exploded at the entrance to a NATO troops’ facility on the Qasaba Road near the Kabul International Airport on Wednesday, but there were no immediate reports about casualties, officials said. The Ministry of Interior (MoI)…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): One policeman has been killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a police check post in Marjah district of the southern Helmand province, an official said Thursday. Fawad Askari, provincial police spokesperson, told Pajhwok Afghan…
BRUSSELS (PAN meeting here he could assure them that the Bilateral Security Agreement with the US would be signed in “good time.” NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels urged President Hamid Karzai to sign the security pact, with Secretary General…
KABUL and the US should be signed expeditiously. “Let me make one point very clear, it is a pre-requisite for our presence in Afghanistan beyond 2014 that an appropriate legal framework is in place, if the bilateral security agreement between…
KABUL) soldiers killed two civilians in the Batikot district of eastern Nangarhar province, the Presidential Palace said, but the alliance insisted the dead were militants. President Karzai was saddened by the killings and condemned the act, a statement from his…
KABUL, the alliance said on Thursday. Wednesday's death was announced in a brief statement that neither gave the victim's nationality nor the exact location of the bombing The casualty identification procedures were left to the relevant national authorities. So far…
KABUL's northwestern tribal region of Khyber Agency, a media report said on Friday. The driver was wounded as gunmen opened fire on the vehicle in the sub-district of Jamrud on Thursday, a Pakistani newspaper quoted local officials as saying. Identified…
KABUL. Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued the call the day Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan threatened to choke NATO supply lines in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province. Speaking in the parliament on the aftermath of last week's strike that killed the…
KABUL on Sunday. The NATO fatality was announced in a brief statement from the alliance, which neither gave the victim’s nationality nor the exact location of the attack. Mostly US troops, who borne the brunt of casualties in recent years,…
KABUL after the mission ends in December 2014. NATO defence ministers, who met for a second day in the Belgium capital of Brussels, discussed with their Afghan counterpart progress in Afghanistan and planning for the post-2014 mission to train, advise…
KABUL officials said Tuesday they were “confident” Afghan politicians and elders would sign off on a proposed deal to keep an American military force in the country after 2014, but a spokesman for President Karzai said some aspects of the…
KABUL-Russia cooperation will top the agenda of a two-day NATO defence ministerial beginning Tuesday in Brussels. In the first working session devoted to capabilities, the defence ministers will also discuss cyber defence, NATO’s Ballistic Missile Defence system and review NATO…
KABUL while celebrating Eidul Adha. A statement attributed to ISAF top commander, US General Joseph Dunford, said numerous Afghan civilians were injured or killed when a bomb exploded as Governor Jamal began to address the Eid celebrants. "I express my…
KABUL's secretary-general Anders Fogh Rasmussen has sharply rejected President Hamid Karzai's view that the presence of international troops caused much suffering but achieved few gains in his country. He told a monthly press conference in Brussels on Thursday that the…
NEILY (PAN insurgents during a clash that left 26 rebels dead and 34 others injured in central Daikundi province, the governor said on Thursday. Vacated by foreign troops last year, the base, located between Kajran district of Daikundi and Baghran…
KABUL said. The deaths were announced in a brief statement that neither gave the victims' nationalities nor the exact location. In line with its policy, the NATO-led force deferred casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities. But the Kandahar…
KABUL on Saturday, the alliance said. One NATO-led service member was shot dead by an alleged contracted security guard, the multinational force said in a brief statement. “The scene of the incident is secure and the suspected gunman has been…
KABUL said. Afghan National Army (ANA) Special Forces and US Special Operations members held a transfer-of-authority ceremony, which was attended by ISAF Commander General Joseph F. Dunford. On the occasion, 4th Special Operations Kandak Commander Lt. Col. Saifullah Najribi said:…
KABUL, the alliance announced on Monday. The soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing in on Sunday, the ISAF media office said in a statement without giving the victims' nationalities or the exact location of the incident. Mostly US troops,…
KABUL, the alliance said on Friday. Without revealing the exact location and nationality of the fallen soldier, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in a brief statement said he was killed during an attack by armed insurgents in the east.…
WASHINGTON (PAN, a top American general on Wednesdayasserted that due to the significant increasing in the capabilities of the Afghan national forces conditions are set to win the war. “The changes that have occurred in this country (Afghanistan) speak…
