News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 2 months ago
About 50 Taliban militants died in a battle in western Afghanistan after an insurgent ambush killed three U.S. troops, an Afghan official said Sunday. The fighting took place in a region controlled by militants that has been the site of huge battles...
News Source: Sydney Morning Herald
| 2 months ago
Kunduz early this month, a government-appointed investigator have told AFP...He said 11 militants were also wounded in the strike, which hit as villagers gathered to siphon fuel from tankers captured by the Islamist insurgents...The United Nations...
News Source: Voice of America
| 2 months ago
One investigator in the commission, Mohammadullah Baktash, says 69 Taliban also were killed when a German commander ordered the strike on Taliban militants who had seized two fuel trucks...General Stanley McChrystal, has appointed a board to conduct...
News Source: Al Jazeera
| 2 months ago
About 69 other people who died in the bombardment in Kunduz province on September 4 were Taliban fighters, an investigator told the AFP news agency on Sunday. "Thirty civilians were martyred and nine were wounded," said Mohamadullah Bataj, one of...
News Source: Chicago Tribune
| 2 months ago
German troops on two hijacked fuel tankers in northern Afghanistan this month, a government-appointed official said on Sunday. The Sept. 4 strike in northern Kunduz province has drawn domestic and international criticism and has stirred intense...
News Source: United Press International
| 2 months ago
Afghanistan could erupt into factional violence if a United Nations-backed review panel determines President Hamid Karzai has won re-election, analysts say. The panel is probing allegations of election fraud leveled at Karzai from his main opponent,...