News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 year ago
S alaam, a former Taliban commander, gave a warning yesterday that infiltrators from Pakistan and Iran were deliberately attempting to escalate the conflict in Afghanistan. He said that the insurgency attacks against coalition forces, which have...
News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| about 1 year ago
Nearly 700 Afghan civilians were killed in the first six months of this year, 255 of them by Afghan government and international troops, the rest by Taliban militants. (Reuters)
News Source: Turkish Press
| about 1 year ago
US-led forces unleashed air strikes on a large group of militants operating in a mountainous area of Afghanistan near the Pakistan border Sunday and killed "several" of them, the force said. The precision strikes in the eastern province of Nangarhar...
News Source: Gulf News
| about 1 year ago
2 Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an investigation into a US-led coalition airstrike that local officials say killed 15 civilians, but the US military says killed only armed Taliban militants. Coalition ground troops called in air...
News Source: International Business Times
| about 1 year ago
An Afghan man, who allegedly got wounded by U.S. airstrikes in Waygal district of Nuristan province, lies on a bed at a hospital in Asadabad, the provincial capital of Kunar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 5, 2008. The U.S.
News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| about 1 year ago
Afghan Defense Ministry says 20 militants killed, wounded in attack Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense says more than 20 militants have been killed and wounded during a battle with NATO-backed Afghan forces. The ministry says the militants were...