“The sequestration will not affect the Army’s mission in Afghanistan,” stated Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond F. Chandler III during a town hall discussion with soldiers, March 26, 2013, in Forward Operating Base Frontenac, Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. Chandler, the…
KABUL on Friday, the alliance said. The death was announced in a brief statement from the NATO-led force that neither gave the soldier’s nationality nor the exact location of the blast. However, mostly US troops are stationed in the east.…
KABUL on Friday, the alliance said. The death was announced in a brief statement from the NATO-led force that neither gave the soldier’s nationality nor the exact location of the blast. However, mostly US troops are stationed in the east.…
KABUL to pave the way for foreign soldiers’ stay in the war-weary country. Last week, President Karzai told a gathering of tribal elders and youth in southern Helmand province the West was out to engineer an agreement between the Taliban…
KABUL): Spanish troops have started withdrawing from Qala-i-Naw, the capital of northwestern Badghis province, to their main base in western Herat near the Iranian border, moving equipment and vehicles, the country's defence ministry said on Friday. "Bringing forward the date…
KABUL (PAN): The Afghan National Army demonstrates the value of their new armoured vehicles supplied by the United States.
KABUL said on Friday, but provided no exact figures. An ISAF statement said the joint force identified, engaged and killed them. Elsewhere, the statement said two insurgents, including a Taliban facilitator, were detained during a joint operation in Kandahar province…
KABUL leader named Hamza was killed during a joint operation by Afghan and coalition forces in Khogyani district of eastern Nangarhar province, the alliance said on Tuesday. Killed on Monday, an ISAF statement said Hamza was responsible for coordinating and…
KABUL on Monday, the alliance said, but gave no immediate details about the cause. A statement issued by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said the cause of the crash was under investigation. "However, initial reporting indicates there was no…
KABUL): Before a planned handover ceremony, Afghan officials on Saturday said the US military had cancelled the transfer of the notorious Bagram jail in central Parwan province to the Afghan control at the last moment. A group of Afghan and…
KABUL) said. ISAF said in a statement that one "ISAF-contracted civilian" was killed, the second "insider" attack this year. The attackers, who drove an Afghan security vehicle, were killed during the engagement. The assailants forced their way to the base…
FARAH CITY (PAN): Two foreign troops were wounded in a roadside bombing that caused their armoured vehicle to flip over in western Farah province on Wednesday. The Italian soldiers with ISAF were treated for slight wounds to their arms after…
KABUL, the US military said on Tuesday. The insurgents were killed by coalition troops during operations in the Shigal district of Kunar province, the military said in a statement from the Bagram airbase. Afghan police detained two suspected rebels in…
TIRINKOT (PAN called the shooting deaths mistaken, voicing its regrets. The deaths occurred in Dowan area on Thursday, when the troops were conducting an aerial patrol of the village, a police spokesman told Pajhwok Afghan News. Farid Ayel said the…
KABUL (PAN): The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Monday said it had no evidence regarding the harassment of civilians by American Special Forces in central Maidan Wardak province. A day earlier, President Hamid Karzai’s chief spokesman said the National…
KABUL) on Monday said it had no evidence regarding the harassment of civilians by American Special Forces in central Maidan Wardak province. A day earlier, President Hamid Karzai’s chief spokesman said the National Security Council (NSC) had given American forces…
BRUSSELS/WASHINGTON (PAN’s combat mission in 2014. Speaking to reporters, German Defence Minister Thomas de Maiziere said his US counterpart Leon Panetta had told him that 8,000-10,000 American soldiers would remain in Afghanistan. However, the US secretary said the German minister’s…
KABUL insider attack facilitators -- Mahmood and Rashid -- during an operation in the Ghaziabad district of eastern Kunar province on Wednesday. The NATO) said Mahmood was involved in the killing of an American service member in Kunar on…
KABUL) from central Bamyan province in April. Defence Minister Jonathan Coleman told a cabinet meeting in Wellington that 27 defence personnel would remain for another in Afghanistan, where 200 troops from New Zealand are currently stationed, a media report said.…
KABUL): The National Security Council (NSC) on Sunday decided to form a delegation that would formally ask US-led coalition forces for an end to operations by the special units they have created in different provinces of the country. A meeting…
KABUL said on Sunday. Two insurgents were killed in Charkh district of Logar and a third in Sherzad district of Nangarhar, the NATO-led force said in a statement. A large quantity of ammunitions and explosives were also seized. Meanwhile, Taliban…
KABUL’s internal security. Late on Tuesday night, Obama called his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai to inform him of his decision to withdraw some 34,000 of the American 60,000 troops currently stationed in Afghanistan in the next one year. Currently,…
KABUL, the US military said on Thursday. The combined force discovered a weapons cache and arrested two suspected militants during a joint operation in the Chaparhar district of Nangarhar, a statement from the Bagram airbase said. It added the cache…
KABUL (PAN): Tasked with bringing forces home and overseeing the transfer of security duties to Afghan forces, US Gen. Joseph Dunford on Sunday assumed command of NATO-led forces in Afghanistan from Gen. John Allen during a special change of command…
