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News Source: The Frontier Post
| 5 months ago
Seven people including women and Afghan border security personnel were killed in a suicide attack at Torkham border inside Afghan territory on Tuesday. According to eyewitnesses more than twelve people were seriously wounded, sven of them were...
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News Source: BBC South Asia
| 5 months ago
Another 10 people were injured in the attack which took place in the town of Sohrab, 300km (186 miles) from Quetta. The bomber blew himself up in a roadside restaurant on the town's outskirts, local police told the BBC. They say that he entered the...
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News Source: Lexington Herald-Leader
| 5 months ago
A suicide bomber dressed as a woman killed a police officer and wounded four others in an attack on a key Afghan-Pakistan border crossing Tuesday, a day after U.S. coalition airstrikes killed more than a dozen militants elsewhere in eastern...
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News Source: Gulf News
| 5 months ago
June 30, 2009, 11:54 Kabul: US coalition troops says they have killed over a dozen militants in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan. The coalition says in a statement the strikes targeted insurgents linked to a militant leader Siraj Haqqani, in Khost...
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News Source: United Press International
| 5 months ago
Dozens of U.S.-trained Afghan guards were arrested after a gunfight in which Kandahar's provincial police chief was killed, the regional governor said Monday. Thoryalai Wesa said the 41 guards will be sent to Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, for trial,...
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News Source: CNN
| 5 months ago
He described how after leading the main weekly prayers on Friday his father had retired to his office, was sitting in his chair talking with his students when a young man came in and asked for him by name. The man they now know was a Taliban killer...
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News Source: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 5 months ago
The clash happened after Afghan special forces entered the prosecutors' office in Kandahar city. Local officials say the troops were trying to free a colleague who had been arrested by the authorities...Kandahar is the spiritual birthplace of the...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 5 months ago
Police in Kandahar province, south of Afghanistan, on Monday raided the private security company and arrested its 41 personnel for investigation after disarming them at their base, provincial governor Toryali Wesa said. "Police arrested 41...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
Afghan officials say the police chief for the southern province of Kandahar has been killed in a clash with Afghan special forces trained by the U.S. A senior member of the Kandahar provincial council says at least nine other police officers were...