A Taliban suicide bomber struck a main square in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz where Afghan forces had gathered to defend the city from falling to the Taliban, killing at least 10 soldiers and civilians, Afghan officials said on Saturday.
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Afghan forces were conducting clearing operations in Kunduz on Tuesday, warning that Taliban militants were hiding in civilian homes after an hours-long assault on the city repelled with the help of NATO air support.
Helicopters hovered over the (...)
Taliban fighters entered the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Monday, almost exactly a year after they briefly seized it in their biggest success of the 15-year war, while heavy fighting in the south underscored the country's deteriorating (...)
Afghan forces have recaptured a district that had fallen briefly to the Taliban, officials and residents said on Sunday, after thousands of people fled their homes in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunduz province.
Khan Abad district, which is around 30 (...)
Taliban militants on Saturday captured a district in northeastern Kunduz province, near the provincial capital where militants scored their biggest victory in 14 years last September.
The militants, waging a bloody insurgency to topple the (...)
Bullet-ridden bunkers and signposts shredded by rockets bear witness to dozens of Taliban attacks this month on police posts around Kunduz, the northern Afghan city that fell briefly in September in the insurgents' biggest victory to date.
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Afghan forces fought back a renewed series of attacks on Kunduz, killing dozens of Taliban fighters, officials said on Sunday as insurgent forces stepped up their bid to retake the northern city that they captured briefly last year.
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Afghan forces fought back a renewed series of attacks on Kunduz, killing dozens of terrorist Taliban fighters, officials said on Sunday, Reuters reported.
The attack on Kunduz, involving hundreds of insurgent fighters, has intensified just days (...)
Afghan security forces drove back Taliban insurgents attacking areas around the northern city of Kunduz, officials said on Saturday, after heavy fighting overnight in which dozens were killed and wounded.
Kunduz, Afghanistan's fifth-biggest city, (...)
At least 22 people were killed in northern Afghanistan late Saturday when a Taliban suicide bomber detonated a vehicle packed with explosives in the latest in a series of deadly attacks that included an attack at a NATO base in Kabul a day earlier, (...)
Afghan troops retook control of a
northern district from Taliban rebels after three days of combat, Reuters quoted a government official said Tuesday.
"We succeeded in retaking the bulk of the district this morning," said Mohammad Omar Safi, the (...)
Afghan troops retook control of the
north-eastern district of Yamgan Sunday after three weeks of clashes
with Taliban rebels, even as rebels in the north took a key district
in Kunduz province, officials said, according to dpa.
The rebels had been (...)
At least six policemen were killed when
rebels attacked their outpost in northern Afghanistan, a local
official said Tuesday, according to dpa.
Zabet Noorullah, a police official in the northern province of
Kunduz, said the incident occurred in (...)
A German national kidnapped by Taliban militants in Afghanistan's northern province of Kunduz has been released, police confirmed Friday.
The German citizen, working with the development agency Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Internationale Zusammenarbeit (...)
At least seven policemen were killed
Thursday in a Taliban ambush in northern Afghanistan, dpa cited a local
official as saying.
"The incident occurred near Dasht-e-Archi district of Kunduz province
in the early morning," said Nasruddin Saadi, the (...)
Afghan security forces killed 100 Taliban
militants during 15 days of fighting in the country's north, a local
government official said Thursday, according to dpa.
"Afghan national security forces launched a cleanup operation in Imam
Sahib district, (...)
Five Taliban fighters were killed when
they attacked a police headquarters in northern Afghanistan Tuesday,
officials said, according to dpa.
One attacker blew himself up at the entrance and four others were
shot dead, said Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, (...)
More than 60 Taliban fighters were killed
in a clearance operation by security forces in northern Afghanistan
that ended Sunday, dpa cited police as saying.
"The joint operation by the national army, national police and the
national directorate of (...)
At least 30 Taliban rebels were killed
and 40 injured in an offensive by Afghan security forces, an official
said Sunday, according to dpa.
Troops launched an offensive in the northern province of Kunduz 20
days ago to clear the area from insurgency (...)
At least five Taliban, including a shadow district governor, were killed Thursday in a military operation launched by Afghan security forces in northern Afghanistan, an official said.
"A military operation has been launched in Dasht-e-Archi district (...)
One police officer and two election
commission employees were killed when a roadside bomb struck their
vehicle in northern Afghanistan, dpa cited police as saying.
"The incident took place in Khanabad district as they were
transferring ballot boxes (...)
One civilian was killed and eight injured
Saturday by a suicide bomber in northern Afghanistan, police said, according to dpa.
"The bomber targeted a police vehicle passing in Khan Abad district
at 9:30 am (0500 GMT)," said Sayed Sarwar Hussaini (...)
AlQa'dah 17, 1434, Sep 23, 2013, SPA -- An intelligence official was gunned
down by Taliban militants Monday in northern Afghanistan, the second such attack in less than a week.
"Ghulam Hussain, chief of the National Directorate of Security (...)
A suicide bomber blew himself up Friday at the gate of a mosque, killing a local official and civilians gathered in a funeral in northern Afghanistan, dpa quoted police as saying.
"The bomber standing at the gate of a mosque to welcome people coming (...)
A roadside bomb in northern
Afghanistan Thursday killed a district governor and two of his
bodyguards as Afghans celebrated their traditional New Year, dpa reported.
The bomb, hidden under a bridge, exploded as the district governor
of Eskamish (...)
