KABUL. Outgoing NATO) leadership to Army Gen. John Campbell at a ceremony in Kabul. Gen. Campbell arrived in Afghanistan last week to take over as top US and NATO commander in the war-torn country. The tentative date for the change…
KABUL on Wednesday. The death was announced in a brief statement from the NATO-led force that neither disclosed the victim’s nationality nor the exact location of the incident. Mainly American and British troops are fighting Taliban insurgents in eastern provinces…
KABUL. Ursula von der Leyen's surprise visit comes five day after she took office, with her predecessor Thomas de Maiziere paying a trip to the base less than 10 days ago. Germany's last camp in Afghanistan is located in the…
ISLAMABAD (PAN as long as an ongoing by the ruling party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province continues. Backed by several right-wing political groups, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has been spearheading a protest in Peshawar and other parts of the province over…
KABUL conflict will end by Christmas with the pullout of most of its 1500 soldiers from the war-torn country, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said. "Australia's longest war is ending not with victory, not with defeat, but with, we hope, an…
ISLAMABAD (PAN. Khattak told reporters in the northwestern city of Nowshera on Saturday that his administration would be left with no option but to stop supplies to the International Security Assistance Force if drone attacks continued. He had asked the…
KABUL operation in the Sangin district of southern Helmand province, a media report said on Sunday. In response to a request from Afghan commanders, the British soldiers returned to the restive area for a week-long operation to flush out the…
KABUL's airspace, infiltrating several kilometers into the neighbouring country, media reported on Thursday. Dawn newspaper quoted intelligence sources as saying the aircraft strayed into the Pakistani airspace through the Torkham border. "The aircraft returned to Afghanistan after flying for several…
KABUL) said. Announcing the death in a brief statement, the alliance deferred casualty identification procedures to the relevant national authorities. Mostly American forces are stationed in eastern Afghanistan and they have borne the brunt of casualties in the war against…
KABUL's southwestern Balochistan province. Four militants on two motorbikes opened fire at containers in the Bypass area of Quetta, the provincial capital, a leading Pakistani newspaper quoted police as saying. The assailants torched the vehicles after the drivers fled as…
KABUL's southwestern Balochistan province, a media report said on Saturday. Two armed militants fired at the tanker's driver before setting the vehicle alight in Mangochar area late on Friday, Dawn quoted an of official of the paramilitary Levies force as…
KABUL): American legislators are all poised to vote on a visa programme for thousands of Afghan interpreters who risk their lives working with US troops in the war-torn country, a media report said on Thursday. Despite promises that the present…
KABUL over the past 24 hours, the US military said on Friday. Nine militants were killed and four others arrested during joint operations in the Mohammad Agha district of central Logar province, a statement from the Bagram airbase said. The…
ISLAMABAD (PAN’s southwestern Balochistan province on Sunday. The tankers came under arson attack in Mastung district on their way back to Karachi from Afghanistan, where they supplied fuel to foreign troops, a security official said. Munir Ahmad, a Levies officer,…
KUNDUZ CITY (PAN), while as many suspects detained in northern Kunduz province, an official said on Thursday. The fighters were killed on Wednesday night when ISAF aircraft bombed a Taliban hideout in the Damshakh area of Dasht-i-Archi district, government official…
KABUL) said on Friday. Codenamed the Big Dam Operation, the joint activity featured the Italian military of the Transition Support Unit Centre (TSU-C) and Afghan National Army (ANA) personnel to ensure the safety of the northern and eastern parts of…
WASHINGTON (PAN, a top Pentagon official has said. “It turns out that our Afghanistan war costs have been higher this year than we anticipated, in part because of the higher-than-expected operating tempo and in part because of increased transportation costs…
KABUL a tragedy, saying that the incident -- a case of mistaken identity -- was still under investigation. Australian soldiers with ISAF shot dead the boys during a Feb. 28 operation in the Charchino district og Uruzgan province. President Hamid…
KABUL (PAN): The Australian military, regretting the killing of two Afghan children in the Chaharchino district of central Uruzgan province, on Sunday said it was investigating the incident. The deaths occurred in Dowan area on Thursday, when the troops were…
WASHINGTON (PAN, his spokesman said. “Secretary Hagel approved his first deployment orders this afternoon, including orders to deploy combat arms and combat support units to Afghanistan to replace existing units,” Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said. Hagel was sworn in…
WASHINGTON (PAN for 19 months till early this month, played a pivotal role in the mission, US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Tuesday. Panetta showered praise on his former Afghan commander, who announced his decision to retire from the…
