A Taliban car bomber killed at least 18 people in Afghanistan's Khost city on Saturday, in the first major attack at the start of the holy month of Ramadan that targeted a CIA-funded militia group.
It is the latest in a series of assaults on (...)
Akhir 23, 1432, March 28, 2011, SPA -- Afghan government officials said today that three suicide bombers killed 20 people in an attack on a construction company in the troubled Paktika province in south-eastern Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Taliban has (...)
Awwal 23, 1432, Feb 26, 2011, SPA -- A Police official announced that nine civilians, including women and children, were killed today when a bomb exploded at a site of the passing vehicle in southeastern Afghanistan.
The Deputy Provincial Police (...)
A roadside bomb struck a passenger van in southeast Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing 12 civilians, a local official said.
Dawlat Khan Yaqubi, head of the Tani district of Khost province near the Pakistan border, said women and children were among (...)
A blast in his office wounded the acting governor of a southeastern Afghan province Thursday, a sign of deteriorating security in an area on the Pakistani border where seven CIA employees were killed last week.
Tahir Khan Sabri, acting governor of (...)
Afghan security forces put down an attack by Taliban fighters, including suicide bombers, in a volatile southeastern town Monday while the Parliament debated President Hamid Karzai's new Cabinet choices.
The Taliban attack in the town of Gardez, (...)
Suicide bombers killed at least four people when they attacked two government offices in the southeastern Afghan town of Khost on Thursday, a police officer said.
One bomber targeted the department for counter-narcotics, the officer said. The (...)
Suicide bombers killed at least four people when they attacked two government offices in the southeastern Afghan town of Khost on Thursday, Reuters quoted a police officer as saying.
One bomber targeted the department for counter-narcotics, the (...)
A suicide bomber targeted Afghan troops in the eastern province of Khost on Friday, killing two civilians and two policemen, Reuters quoted a provincial official as saying.
"Four people including two civilians have been killed and several others (...)
NATO and police forces killed up to 70 Taleban insurgents near the Pakistan border Sunday, using helicopter gunships and ground fighting to repulse an attack by about 100 rebels, officials said.
About 100 insurgents had tried to capture the Spera (...)
NATO killed dozens
of Taliban insurgents in an air strike on Sunday in
Afghanistan's southeastern province of Khost, the provincial
governor said.
Violence has escalated in Afghanistan over the past two
years after the ousted Taliban regrouped (...)
The commander of U.S.
forces in southeast Afghanistan on Friday dismissed suggestions
of any renewed Taliban offensive, saying fighting might pick up
in some areas but a full-on offensive was a myth.
"There is no such thing as a spring (...)
A suicide car bomb
attack on a convoy of NATO-led forces in southeastern
Afghanistan on Saturday killed two Afghan civilians, reuters quoted an
official as saying.
One NATO soldier was wounded in the attack which happened
on a road outside the (...)
The Afghanistan military needs more trainers and equipment in order to gain control of their country's security, the Afghan defense chief told
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates on Tuesday.
Gen. Bizmullah Khan said that while «the U.S. has (...)
A remotely controlled bomb struck a vehicle carrying Afghan troops in eastern Afghanistan, killing three soldiers and wounding four, The Associated Press quoted officials as saying.
The blast in Khost province occurred during a visit to the (...)
