5 US troops die in blasts in southern Afghanistan

Saturday bombings in southern Afghanistan caused five US troops to die. Four of those five American troops died in a separate roadside bombs. The US military spokesman confirmed the deaths of the service members. The NATO -led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said that the five American soldiers died in two separate blasts but they [...]

Series of attacks killed 6 US troops and 6 Afghans

A series of attacks caused to kill many people in Afghanistan which includes six U.S. troops and also include at least dozen civilians in Afghanistan’s volatile south and east. Attacks is said to be raining since American reinforcements moving into Taliban-dominated areas. On Saturday, there were two U.S. troops reported to die in the south [...]

Pakistan suicide bombing death toll raises

Two suicide bombers killed about 102 people in a village in Pakistan. This also wounded 168 people in the village of Yakaghund in Pakistani tribal area of Mohmand. A suicide bomber struck outside a government office in a tribal region where the army of Pakistan has fought over Taliban forces who had been a cause [...]

Suicide bombing in Pakistan kills 105

The death toll from a suicide bombing and car bomb explosion at a busy market town in Pakistan’s northwest tribal belt has risen to 105, officials said on Sunday. The explosions took place on Friday, and destroyed government buildings and shops and left victims buried under the rubble. Two victims died at night in the [...]

Afghanistan: USAID compound attacked; 4 killed

A four-story house was attacked by Taliban suicide attackers Friday in Afghanistan. The house which was used by an American aid organization is located in north Afghanistan. The attack of the Talibans has killed four people before they die in a fierce battle with the Afghan security force that took about five hours. According to [...]

Gunbattle at Afghan airport; killed 8 militants

Taliban claimed responsibility for setting off a car bomb that stormed the entrance of NATO air base in eastern Afghanistan according to authorities Wednesday. There were eight insurgents who died in the failed assault. This is the third ground assault of the Taliban who claimed responsibility for the said attack against a major coalition base [...]

2 bombs rock Southern Afghanistan

Two blasts rocked in a provincial capital Southern Afghanistan Sunday. The  bombs were set up in push carts that exploded just minutes apart. Officials have reported that two explosions rocked Taliban hotbed Helmand province of southern Afghanistan and killed two civilians and have wounded sixteen others. The deaths included a young girl and a woman [...]

Pakistan: dismissed the report of continued Taliban ties

Pakistani officials denied the allegations that Pakistan’s powerful intelligence continues  to support the Taliban and other Afghan insurgents. They rejected the allegations after a paper from a Harvard academic accused the agency of continued links to the rebels on Sunday. Matt Waldman argues in a paper for the London School of  Economics that the powerful [...]

Southern Afghanistan : 2 US troops, 11 Afghan civilians killed

Violence sparked again in Southern Afghanistan that killed two U.S troops and at least eleven civilians. The recent violence include one attack with a suicide bomber. The said suicide bomber wore a burqa who knew himself up in a bazaar. This happened in the neighboring Zabul province. The suicide bomber detonated his cache of explosives [...]

Suicide bomber kills 40 at Afghan Wedding

A suicide attack at a packed wedding party in southern Afghanistan killed at least 40 people and left 77 other injured, officials said on Thursday. “A suicide bomber went inside the party where hundreds of people were sitting and blew himself up,” a police official said of the blast. The blast he said took place [...]

NATO convoy attacked by militants, 7 killed

Dozens of trucks ferrying vehicles for Western troops in Afghanistan was attacked by militants early Wednesday. This happened near the Pakistani capital. The attack was a bold assault which cost seven people’s lives and has illustrated the vulnerability of a crucial U.S. supply line. Shells of trucks were charred Wednesday and were jumbled together at [...]

80 dead in strike of mosques in Pakistan

Two mosques was attacked on Friday which is packed with worshippers from a minority sect in Pakistan. This has been the deadliest against the Ahmadi community. This is said to be a threat to minority religious groups by the same militants who have repeatedly attacked Pakistan’s U.S. -allied government and threatened to destabilize nuclear-armed nation. [...]

Afghanistan War: US death toll reaches 1,000

Death toll of U.S. military has reached 1,000 in the 10 months of Afghan war. Casualties are expected to rise since the war focus its greatest challenge and kicks to win over a population in the Taliban’s southern heartland. This conflict has become “Obama’s war” which still continues for nearly nine years now and has [...]

7 arrests in 6 NATO troops death

Seven people were captured and taken into custody according t Saeed Ansari, spokesman for Afghanistan’s intelligence service and one of the seven included one school teacher. It is not known and intelligence service did not specify what specific roles each of the seven played in several attack and it was unclear what will be the [...]

Insurgents attack southern Afghan base of NATO

Insurgents launched a ground assault Saturday against NATO’s biggest base in southern Afghanistan. The said attack wounded several coalition troops and civilian employees. Insurgents fired rockets, mortars and automatic weapons but there were no reports of deaths according to officials. The attack was being claimed by Taliban. Qari Yousef Ahmadi spokesman of Taliban said that [...]

11 people killed by suicide bombing in NW Pakistan

11 people were killed on Tuesday after a suicide bomber on a bicycle attacked a police patrol in an area of northwestern Pakistan, police said. 15 people were left wounded. The attack killed three police officers and eight civilians. Gul Afzal Khan, the police chief in the area, said that the attack occurred as the [...]

Taliban bombing kills 18 NATO troops, including 5 U.S. troops in Afghanistan

A Taliban suicide car bomber blasted upon a NATO convoy in Kabul, leading to the deaths of six of its service members, out of which five were American, on Tuesday, officials said. Along with these six deaths, twelve Afghan civilians also died who were in a public bus in rush hour traffic. At least forty-seven people were [...]

‘Pakistan Taliban’ behind Times Square bomb plot

The US has evidence the Pakistani Taliban was behind the attempted car bombing in New York’s Times Square, Attorney General Eric Holder says. Mr Holder said the militants helped to facilitate the plot, and “probably helped finance it”. US officials had previously rejected claims by the group that it was behind the 1 May plot. [...]

4 policemen killed after gunmen attack checkpoint in Pakistan

A police checkpoint in northwest Pakistan was attacked by gunmen at dawn on Friday, who killed four policemen before speeding away in a getaway vehicle, police said. “Four policemen were killed on the spot. They were taking shelter inside the checkpost when rain started. One injured is still unconscious,” Zulfiqar Jadoon, a police official from the scene in Mansehra [...]

2 Killed in Pakistan’s Swat Valley by suicide bomber

A suicide bomber detonated himself in a busy market area on Saturday in the main city of Swat Valley in Pakistan, leading to the deaths of two civilians, police said. Swat was undertaken wrested from the Taliban by the Pakistani Army a year ago. Qazi Ghulam Farooq, a senior police official, said that along with [...]

Pakistani officials say Taliban leader Mehsud is still alive

The Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was reported to have been seen in Pakistan’s tribal region, officials said on Thursday, making the allegations about his death in a drone attack in January false. The Taliban leader was seen in North Waziristan, one of seven districts in Pakistan’s tribal region along the Afghan border, a senior [...]

Suicide car bomber kills four policemen in Peshawar

Four policemen have died after a suicide car bomber targeted a checkpoint in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. Civilians are reported to be among at least 10 people injured in the bombing. Senior police official Liaquat Ali said the attacker had rammed his car into a police vehicle. The blast highlights the ongoing threat [...]

4 killed in U.S. aircraft crash in Afghanistan

A U.S. aircraft crashed in southern Afghanistan on Friday, which led to the deaths of three U.S. service members and one civilian employee, a statement from NATO-led forces. The aircraft was an Air Force CV-22 Osprey, and the cause of the crash is not yet known. The aircraft conducts long-range infiltration and resupply operations for [...]

Taliban Commander Released

A Taliban commander who had been jailed due to the abduction of foreigner in Kabul, Afghanistan was released. Taliban Commander, Akbar Agha, was sentenced for 16 years in prison due to the abduction of the three UN workers in Kabul in 2004. Late last year, he was released from prison. The commander had been pardoned [...]

US anger at Peshawar consulate attack

The US has expressed “great concern” over a deadly assault by militants on the American consulate in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. The bomber targeted a crowded rally held by a Pashtun nationalist party in Timergara, Lower Dir. Investigators suspect it was co-ordinated with the Peshawar raid, in which attackers tossed grenades into the [...]

Attack on US consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan

At least seven people have died after suspected militants attacked the US consulate in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. There were several explosions in the area near the consulate and buildings collapsed. A gun battle between police and the attackers followed. Pakistan’s main Taliban faction said it had carried out the attack, and that [...]

German troops accidentally kill Afghan soldiers

German soldiers called in as reinforcements following a Taliban ambush mistakenly killed five Afghan soldiers in the northern province of Kunduz, officials said on Saturday. Three German troops were also killed in clashes with insurgents. German soldiers called in as reinforcements following a Taliban ambush mistakenly killed five Afghan government soldiers, officials said Saturday. They [...]

Obama meets with Karzai, troops on overnight visit

US President Barack Obama told US troops in Afghanistan on Sunday he was confident the military mission would succeed after arriving in the war-torn country on a surprise visit that included talks with President Hamid Karzai. Barack Obama made his first trip to Afghanistan as U.S. president on Sunday, delivering a rousing speech to troops [...]

Clash in Pakistan’s Orakzai kills militants and troops

Five Pakistani soldiers and at least 21 suspected militants have been killed in clashes near the Afghan border, Pakistan’s military has said. The fighting occurred in the tribal district of Orakzai. It came a day after military aircraft bombed areas in the district killing at least 11 people. Militants led by Pakistani Taliban commander Hakimullah [...]

Prince Charles visits troops in Afghanistan

On Thursday, Britain’s Prince Charles made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to see the troops in the Taliban infested province, Helmand. The province was the region where earlier his younger son, Harry, served for 10 weeks till he was deployed. While visiting the province, he recalled how much he worried about Harry at that time, and he [...]

Taliban plot thwarted on hotel attacks & diplomats kidnapping: Pakistan police

Two highly experienced Taliban militants have been arrested while planning to attack top hotels and kidnap diplomats in Pakistan, Pakistani police said. One of the men arrested has claimed to have helped plan previous attacks as well. The two men were arrested in a hotel in Rawalpindi, a city adjacent to the Pakistani capital Islamabad, said Islamabad Police Chief [...]

Pakistan Army Talked with US Leaders

Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, Pakistani’s army chief, has met the defense leaders in Washington for one week strategic talk. Robert Gates, defense secretary, and Admiral Mike Mullen, joint chief of staff, were those to hold the talks. On Wednesday, Hillary Clinton, the US secretary, is going to meet Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistani Foreign Minister. In their [...]

British Prime Minister visits troops in Afghanistan

The British Prime Minister made an unannounced visit on Saturday to southern Afghanistan to meet with the British troops. Gordon Brown made the trip to Camp Bastion in southern Helmand province to thank some of the 4,000 British soldiers who are involved in a 3-week-old NATO offensive to wrest control of the Taliban haven of Marjah from the insurgents. “We will do everything we can [...]

Top Pakistani Taliban deputy believed dead

A leading Pakistani Taliban commander close to al-Qaida is believed to have been killed in an army airstrike, officials said Saturday, in the latest blow on insurgents attacking Pakistan and threatening U.S. forces in neighboring Afghanistan. Maulvi Faqir Mohammed was believed to be among a number of insurgents killed Friday at a sprawling compound in the northwest Mohmand tribal region, Interior Minister [...]

Battle arises in Pakistan, killing 30 militants and 1 soldier

A large group of militants armed with assault rifles attacked a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, causing a gun battle that left 30 insurgents and one soldier dead, officials said on Thursday. The battle took place overnight in the Chamarkand area of the Mohmand tribal region near the Afghan border, said government and military officials. [...]

Pakistan Army kills 38 militants in operation

On Wednesday, Pakistan’s paramilitary forces said that their troops had killed 38 militants during a week-long operation against the Taliban, under the codename “Spring Cleaning”. The head of the paramilitary Frontier Constabulary, Sifwat Ghayoor, told reporters that troops seized control of the Taliban stronghold Pastawana near the garrison city of Kohat. The operation was launched [...]

Charges submitted against Americans by Pakistani police

Pakistani police submitted the charges of plotting terrorism against five young Americans detained last year on Tuesday, a lawyer said. The young students are from the U.S. state of Virginia. They were detained in December in the town of Sargodha, 190 km (120 miles) southeast of Islamabad, and accused of contacting militants over the Internet [...]

U.S. drone attacks kill 8 militants in Pakistan

A U.S. drone aircraft, firing three missiles into Pakistan’s North Waziristan region on the Afghan border, killed eight militants on Wednesday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The strike targeted a stronghold of the Haqqani network, a major Taliban faction attacking Western forces across the border in Afghanistan. Fire broke out after the missiles exploded in Dargi [...]

Taliban in Northwest Pakistan Kill 2 Alleged U.S. Spies

Two bodies of alleged U.S. spies, wounded with bullets, were found on Wednesday in a Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan, the latest victims of an intelligence war that a top American general indicated is tilting in Washington and Islamabad’s favor. The men’s bodies were found together in Mir Ali town in North Waziristan tribal region. Each had a note attached accusing [...]

2 Sikhs beheaded in Pakistan by Taliban

Two men belonging from the minority Sikh community in Pakistan’s tribal northwest were kidnapped and beheaded on Sunday, authorities said. Two others are still in custody. The men were kidnapped by the Taliban from the Khyber Agency almost two weeks ago for ransom, said Shafirullah Wazir, the administrative chief of the area. However, the men [...]

Suicide car bomb kills 9 in Swat, Pakistan

A suicide car bomber hit a military convoy killing nine people, including children, in Pakistan’s Swat district on Monday, just months after the army claimed to have quelled a Taliban uprising. The bomber blew up a vehicle packed with explosives as security forces drove through the centre of Mingora, the main town of Swat where the military [...]

Suicide attackers strike Pakistani police stations

In an apparently coordinated attack, suicide bombers struck two police stations Saturday in northwestern Pakistan, killing a police chief, and wounding four officers, authorities said. The chaos comes after Pakistan and the U.S. appeared to have made gains in the battle against al-Qaida and the Taliban. Officials confirmed earlier in the week that the No. [...]

Pakistan captures 2 senior Afghan Taliban

Pakistan has captured two seniors of Afghanistan’s Taliban movement, an Afghan official said on Thursday. The timing of the reported arrests coincides with the capture of Taliban’s second-in-command Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in Karachi by Pakistani and U.S. agents this month. Mullah Abdul Salam and Mullah Mir Mohammad, respectively the shadow governors and seniors of the northern Afghan [...]

US to spread training to Pakistan

Now days US is  extending its efforts to complete and wipe away the war against terror as soon as possible and in this regard they have decided to set up new training centers within Pakistan where US special operation trainers will help Pakistani military near the Afghan border, a senior defense official said. These special [...]

Pakistan democracy- an emerging concern for US

Democratic government in Pakistan is now an emerging concern for US government and officials. In a latest interview, he was of the view that neither Afghanistan nor Iraq but Pakistan is a major emerging concern for him. In an interview with CNN, US vice president said that “Pakistan is a big country, it has nuclear [...]

Suicide bombing targeting bus kills 12 in Pakistan

A suspected suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed 12 Shiite Muslims on a crowded bus in Pakistan’s commercial capital Karachi, hospital and police officials said. “We have 12 dead and up to 40 wounded. Some of the wounded are in critical condition,” said Kaleem Sheikh, senior doctor at Karachi’s main hospital. Senior police officer Ghulam [...]

Pakistan blast kills US soldiers

Three US soldiers were among 10 people killed when a bomb blast hit a convoy near a school in north-west Pakistan. Three schoolgirls were among the dead while 70 people, including another 63 schoolgirls and two US soldiers, were injured in the explosion in Lower Dir. The US embassy said the military personnel had been [...]

Pakistan looks into reports of death of Taliban leader

The Pakistani military on Sunday was looking into a local report that the region’s Taliban leader had died, officials said. The army and government officials said Sunday it was investigating a media report that Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a U.S. missile strike in mid-January close to the Afghan border, but said they could [...]

Taliban leader escapes drone strike

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud escaped a US drone strike on a militant camp Friday that killed 10 people, the militia said after reports he may have been among the dead. Hakimullah Mehsud, who has led the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) since August, had been in the lawless tribal area bordering Afghanistan where [...]

Captured U.S. soldier’s family pleads Taliban for release

The family of the U.S soldier who was kidnapped by the Afghan Taliban in June 2009 from eastern Afghanistan pleaded the release of his son. Lt. Col Tim Marsano of the Idaho National Guard issued a statement on Friday from the family of Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. airborne infantryman who was taken by the Afghan Taliban [...]

Taliban attack police in eastern Afghan city

Five Taliban militants wearing suicide vests and carrying guns clashed with the police in an eastern Afghan city early Monday, officials said, after they attacked a building. At least three of the attackers are reported to be dead. The attack took place at central Gardez, the capital province of eastern Paktia province, and with the [...]