KABUL (PAN): Triggered by a brazen assault on the Kabul International Airport early Monday morning, clashes between insurgents and security forces ended with the killing of all seven attackers, the Ministry of Interior said. Two of the militants blew themselves…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): A police helpline (119) was activated to prevent crime in the southern province of Helmand, an official said on Sunday. Disruptive activities would fall with activation of the helpline, the deputy police chief, Col. Ghulam Rabbani Bahawi, told…
MAIMANA (PAN and a fighter was killed during a clash with security personnel in the northern province of Faryab, officials said on Wednesday. The Afghan Local Police (ALP) members also surrendered their weapons to the insurgents in the Khwaja Kanti…
KABUL (EUPOL Afghanistan) until December 31, 2014, allocating a budget of €108 million for the period beginning June first. The council said in a press release EUPOL Afghanistan helped the Afghan authorities to develop their civilian policing capacities. The mission…
HERAT CITY (PAN): Seven police guards were killed on Tuesday by a powerful roadside bombing that ripped through their vehicle in the Chasht-i-Sharif district of western Herat province, an official said. The public protection force officers, who were guards of…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): Up to 157 policemen completed a training course in southern Helmand province while 400 candidates appeared in a recruitment exam. Of the 157 policemen, 130 were border policemen who received four-month training from Afghan and foreign mentors, the…
MAZAR-I-SHARIF (PAN ground in northern Balkh province to appear in a police recruitment exam, an official said. Nearly 400 students from Balkh, Samangan, Sari-Pul, Jawzjan and Faryab provinces lined up at the Sena ground in Mazar-i-Sharif to take the test,…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): Six policemen and two insurgents have been killed in separate security incidents in southern Helmand province over the past 24 hours, officials said on Tuesday. Two fighters and as many policemen were killed during a clash in Khanshin…
JALALABAD, (PAN) : Footage of the gate constructed by Pakistani border force in Goshta district, having border with Momand Agency of Pakistan. By: Babrak Amirzada and Obaidullah Hussam
KABUL): The Ministry of Interior on Monday said 1,800 policemen and 4,600 insurgents had been killed over the past year. Another 3,000 members of the force were wounded in 6,300 attacks since March 21, 2012 in different parts of the…
KABUL): Up to 30 militants were killed in a string of security operations by Afghan forces in different parts of the country over the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Interior (MoI) said on Sunday. Afghan police, army and the…
KANDAHAR (PAN): Two members of Afghan National Police (ANP) were mysteriously shot dead by unidentified gunmen in this southern city, an official said on Wednesday. The incident took place on Tuesday night in the 18th police district of the Kandahar…
JALALABAD (PAN-fired rocket hit their vehicle in eastern Laghman province, an official said on Saturday. The overnight attack took place on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway in the Naranj Bagh area of Qarghayee district, the governor's spokesman, Sarhadi Zwak, told Pajhwok Afghan…
KABUL (PAN): Seventy-seven members of the NATO-backed Afghan Local Police (ALP) were referred to the military prosecution office for committing various crimes since the militias were raised two years ago in various provinces, a senior official said on Monday. ALP…
LASHKARGAH (PAN): Two policemen were killed and a third injured during a roadside bombing in the Nawa district of southern Helmand province, an official said on Wednesday. The blast took place late on Tuesday afternoon, when a police vehicle struck…
JALALABAD (PAN): Pakistani border guards on Saturday reopened the Torkham border crossing for traffic a day after the gate was closed in protest against alleged torture of Pakistani truck drivers by Afghan police. An Afghan official earlier in the day…
KABUL): An Afghan policewoman, in what is seen as the first-ever insider attack by a female officer, shot dead a US advisor at the heavily-fortified police headquarters in the capital Kabul on Monday, officials said. The policewoman killed the American…
FAIZABAD (PAN militants in the Worduj district of remote northern Badakhshan province, an official said on Saturday. Col. Asadullah, the district police chief, acknowledged the death of four policemen in the assault. In a counterattack, several insurgents were killed, but…
KABUL, the alliance said. A day earlier, an individual believed to be an Afghan Local Police (APL) member shot dead two international troops in the volatile south. A foreign troop returned fire, killing the assailant. “The incident is currently under…
KABUL): The first contingent of 166 newly-recruited Afghan policemen on Wednesday flew to Turkey for an advanced training, an official said on Wednesday. A total of 500 high school graduates have joined the police force after passing their university entrance…
MAIMANA (PAN): A civilian and an intelligence operative were killed after security forces attacked a house in pursuit of militants in Maimana, the capital of northern Faryab province, officials said on Saturday. The clash erupted late on Friday night between…
KABUL): About 2,164 Afghan National Army (ANA) and police recruits were awarded certificates on completing their training programmes in Nangarhar, Laghman and Kandahar provinces, officials said on Thursday. Up to 1,400 ANA soldiers were given away certificates at a…
JALALABAD (PAN): At least five border policemen were killed in a roadside bombing in the Durbaba district of eastern Nangarhar province, officials said on Saturday. A remote-controlled bomb struck a police vehicle in the mountainous area late on Friday, Col.…
MAIDAN SHAHR (PAN): Nearly 10 policemen were killed in a roadside bombing in central Maidan Wardak province, officials said on Saturday. The blast happened in the Zambukhak area on the outskirts of Chak district, when a group of security personnel…
