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News Source: Simi Valley - Moorpark Examiner
| 2 months ago
U.S. military successes in Iraq have forced sophisticated and well-trained insurgents to pour into Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday. In a demonstration of the increasingly deadly attacks unleashed by militants, a roadside...
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News Source: Androscoggin News
| 2 months ago
The provincial police chief in Uruzgan province says that two children were among the dead from the bomb that hit a small van commonly used as a taxi in Afghanistan. Police Chief Juma Gul Himat blames the Taliban for the attack.
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News Source: Al Jazeera
| 2 months ago
At least nine civilians have been killed by a bomb attack on a minibus in Afghanistan, police say. At least two children were among those killed by the bomb that was thought to have been planted to attack Nato troops. A further six people were...
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News Source: Channel NewsAsia
| 2 months ago
Afghanistan on Tuesday as the defence minister acknowledged that 2008 was the bloodiest year since US-led invasion. Nine people, including two children aged about 10, were killed when a bomb apparently intended for Afghan or international security...
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News Source: International Herald Tribune
| 2 months ago
U.S. military successes in Iraq have prompted growing numbers of well-trained "foreign fighters" to join the insurgency in Afghanistan instead, the Afghan defense minister said Tuesday. The minister, General Abdul Rahim Wardak, said that the...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 2 months ago
Afghanistan October 14 when their vehicle struck an IED (improvised explosive device)," it said in a statement. Most of the international soldiers in eastern Afghanistan are from the United States, which is the main supplier of foreign troops to...
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News Source: Hindustan times
| 2 months ago
Elsewhere in the country an Afghan army soldier and 11 Taliban militants were killed in separate incidents. Gunmen on a motorbike on Tuesday morning killed Doost Mohammad Arghistani, director of the martyrs and disabled department, when he was on his...
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News Source: United Press International
| 2 months ago
A senior provincial official was killed by gunmen in Kandahar, Afghanistan, and five Taliban militants were slain in Ghanzi province Tuesday, officials said...Elsewhere in Afghanistan, U.S.-led coalition troops said they had killed five militants...
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News Source: Al Sharq Al Awsat
| 2 months ago
This year has been the bloodiest for insurgent violence in Afghanistan as increasing numbers of terrorists change battlegrounds and head here from Iraq, the defence minister said Tuesday. "The level of violence has increased every year and 2008 has...
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News Source: Xinhuanet.com
| 2 months ago
The U.S.-led Coalition forces Monday in the days' operation targeting a foreign fighter network in central Afghan province of Ghazni killed five Taliban militant, including a subcommander, said a Coalition statement released hereon Tuesday.