News Source: Al Jazeera
| 18 days ago
Hamid Karzai, the president, ordered the probe on Thursday into the overnight attack. He did not suggest who might have fired the rocket, but the Nato-led force in Afghanistan said separately that it had fired a rocket at people suspected to have...
News Source: Financial Times
| 18 days ago
Qari Mohammad Yousuf, a senior spokesman for the Taliban, said the police officer had contacted insurgents in the southern Helmand province two months ago to offer to kill British soldiers who were mentoring the police. Six British soldiers and two...
News Source: United Press International
| 18 days ago
The deaths of five British troops prompted political, diplomatic and military officials to warn public support would fade without a clear Afghan strategy. The soldiers were killed Wednesday when a police officer trained by British forces opened fire...
News Source: Los Angeles Times
| 18 days ago
North Atlantic Treaty Organization forces said today they were investigating reports that nine civilians were killed in a rocket strike aimed at insurgents in the volatile southern Afghan province of Helmand. The incident came despite new efforts by...
News Source: The Courier-Mail
| 18 days ago
Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence in London said, two days after five died in a shooting by a rogue Afghan policeman. The serviceman from the 3rd Battalion The Rifles died near Sangin in the volatile Helmand province, said a spokesman for Task...
News Source: Press TV
| 18 days ago
Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:23:58 GMT Font size : Clashes between Afghan security forces and the militants in northwest Afghanistan have left at least eight people from both sides dead, officials say. Clashes broke out after Taliban militants attacked...