News Source: ITN
| about 1 month ago
Afghan authorities say they have lost contact with scores of their policemen...The fighting took place in Nuristan province's Kamdesh district in high mountains. The militia who launched the attacks came from a local mosque and a nearby village. U.S...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 month ago
Afghanistan in more than a year, with eight US soldiers killed in a firefight in the east of the country. Afghan National Security and Coalition] service members were killed,'' the statement said. No exact details were given on the location of the...
News Source: Asian Wall Street Journal
| about 1 month ago
Eight American troops and two Afghan soldiers were killed during a firefight in a remote part of Afghanistan Saturday, one of the worst single-day battlefield losses for U.S. forces since the war began...A tribal militia attacked two U.S. outposts in...
News Source: USA Today
| about 1 month ago
Militant fighters streaming from a village and a mosque attacked a pair of remote outposts near the Pakistan border, killing eight American soldiers and as many as seven Afghan forces in one of the fiercest gunbattles of the troubled eight-year war.
News Source: NewKerala
| about 1 month ago
The attack was the deadliest single assault for around 60,000 US military troops in Afghanistan in past several months...Taliban spokesman Zabiullah Mujahid said the rebel fighters killed 40 US soldiers and 30 Afghan forces in the "massive offensive",...
News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
Groups of tribal militia attacked two American outposts in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, the American military said, killing eight American soldiers and two Afghan police officers in a bold attack that was the deadliest for American soldiers in...