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BBC
| 11 months ago
Mali could become a home for terrorist groups which could threaten the region, France's president has warned. Francois Hollande was reacting to the concerns of Niger's President Mahamadou Issoufou over information relating to Islamist groups. Mr...
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Pak Tribune
| 11 months ago
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said, after 18 civilians, most of them women and children, were killed in a recent raid provoking fresh rage against foreign forces. Afghanistan, General John Allen, has apologised for the killings in Logar province...
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United Press International
| 11 months ago
French President Francois Hollande has announced plans to withdraw French troops from Afghanistan following the deaths of four soldiers. The soldiers were killed Saturday morning by a suicide bomber dressed as a woman in a burqa, Radio France...
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The Jakarta Post
| 11 months ago
The pullout will be completed by the end of this year, Hollande said after four French soldiers were killed Saturday morning during an operation in eastern Afghanistan. "This operation (of withdrawal) will begin in July...Until then, everything must...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
Afghanistan Afghanistan's president said Saturday that the United States has put the two countries' security pact at risk with a unilateral airstrike that killed 18 civilians, while a Taliban suicide bomber killed four French soldiers responding to...
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Channel NewsAsia
| 11 months ago
President Francois Hollande said Saturday France will begin its Afghanistan pullout next month and complete it by year-end, after four French troops were killed in a Taliban attack. Hollande said France would pay a "national homage" to the men killed...
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Guardian Unlimited
| 11 months ago
The commander of US and Nato troops in Afghanistan, US Marine Lt General John Allen apologised Friday for the deaths. Photograph: Deb Riechmann/AP The Afghan government has hit out at the US for failing to consult with local forces ahead of an...
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Kuwait Times
| 11 months ago
Three of the injured were in a critical condition after the attack in Kapisa province, where most of France's 3,500 soldiers in the country are stationed, French President Francois Hollande's office said in a statement. It is with the greatest...
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B92
| 11 months ago
French President Francois Hollande said he "shared the grief of the families"...Violence has risen across the country in recent weeks, with the Taliban targeting both the Afghan forces and the 130,000 foreign troops remaining in the country. All of...
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Boston.com
| 11 months ago
Logar province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan on Wednesday, June, 6, 2012...Afghanistan A Taliban suicide bomber disguised as a woman wearing a burqa blew himself up in a market in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing four French troops, officials...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
Share This Story Although Nato officially did not confirm the attack, Taliban militants have reportedly claimed responsibility for it...French Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is reportedly being sent to Afghanistan after the incident. The...
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Newyork Times
| 11 months ago
In a statement released on its Web site , the office of French President Francois Hollande said four soldiers had been killed and another five were wounded from an operation carried out in Kapisa Province...Abdul Hamid, the police chief for Kapisa...
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International Herald Tribune
| 11 months ago
In a statement released on its Web site , the office of French President Francois Hollande said four of the country's soldiers had been killed and another five were wounded from an operation carried out in Kapisa Province...Abdul Hamid, the police...
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The Jakarta Post
| 11 months ago
France's defense ministry says four of its troops have been killed and five others wounded during an operation in eastern Afghanistan Saturday. The defense ministry says in a statement Saturday the attack happened in the region of Kapisa while the...
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Al Jazeera English
| 11 months ago
In an email, Zabiullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesman, claimed responsibility for the Saturday morning attack in the Nijrab district of Kapisa province, where the majority of foreign forces are French. Four other people were injured in the attack...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
Martyn Crighton, said the attacks were not related and happened in different parts of the east.
The latest deaths bring to 13 the number of international troops killed in June...Kapisa province has been a particularly deadly posting for...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
Insurgents in Afghanistan killed four foreign soldiers on Saturday, the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf) said in a statement, as violence escalates across the country. Isaf did not give any details of the incident or the...
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Fox News
| 11 months ago
Afghanistan say four international service members have been killed in an insurgent attack in the country's east...Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid claimed responsibility for the attack in an email, saying that a suicide bomber attacked the troops...
