NATO helicopter crashed in Wardak, Eastern Afghanistan. The Taliban insurgents who shot down a 38 elite troops Navy SEALs helicopter in Afghanistan were killed. U.S. General, John Allen said Wednesday that NATO international troops found out where militants were hiding and launched an air strike on the place. Allen, who is chief commander of allied forces in Afghanistan ISAF (Internation…
a full investigation is under way. The soldier, believed to be a staff sergeant, is reported to have walked off his base at around 03:00 a.m. on Sunday. In the villages of Alkozai and Najeeban, about 500 m from the base, he reportedly broke into three homes. At one house in Najeeban, 11 people were found shot dead, and some of their bodies set alight. At least three of the child victims are repor…
…;set a goal for Afghan forces to be in the lead for combat operations across the country next year”. NATO has already committed to withdrawing from combat operations in Afghanistan by the end of 2014. “I will not keep Americans in harm’s way a single day longer than is absolutely required for our national security,” Barack Obama said. “But we must finish the job we st…
At least 54 people have been killed after a bomb exploded at a packed mosque in Afghanistan as people celebrated a major Shi’ite festival in Kabul. Bodies lie strewn on the ground after the powerful bomb killed the people at a shrine by the river in Kabul’s old city. People rush to the scene to help those injured in the blast, people who moments earlier had been praying and chanting w…
e was enemy activity in the area. Additional details will be released as appropriate. ISAF Joint Command Morning Operational Update August 6, 2011 (C) ISAF Media – Helicopter in Aghanistan At least 38 people were killed in the crash. There were seven Afghan nationals and 31 NATO service members aboard the crashed helicopter. The crashed helicopter was traveling through the Wardak province. This…
o the extent that it is possible.” Military officials from both sides have launched a joint investigation. The figure of 2,000 deaths was given by US officials on Sunday. During the war in Iraq, 4,409 American soldiers were killed. As of 27 September, the Pentagon’s official military death toll for Afghanistan had stood at 1,996. The count includes both soldiers killed in action and so…
…ent officials to the area to investigate. Earlier on Sunday, four US soldiers with the NATO forces were killed in an attack by suspected Afghan police. The attack in southern Zabul province brought to 51 the number of NATO troops killed in “insider attacks” this year, and came a day after two UK soldiers were killed at a checkpoint in Helmand by a man in police uniform. Local officials…
e than 20 people killed in bomb attack in Baghdad • 20 March: At least 45 people die in series of co-ordinated attacks including car bombs in Kerbala city that kill at least 13 • 23 February: At least 55 people killed and hundreds injured in wave of bombings and shootings across the country • 27 January: A suicide car bomb kills at least 32 and injures about 60 in predominantly Shia Muslim distric…
erned that there will be further attacks, he says. International troops are gradually handing over responsibilities to Afghan security forces, as NATO prepares to pull out of the country by the end of 2014. …
id there was an “emerging consensus” that European countries must now focus on jobs and growth. The statements represented a shift away from Germany’s pro-austerity stance. More than 50 leaders are attending the NATO meeting in Chicago. Among them are heads of state and government from the 28 NATO countries, as well as Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart A…
…ecrets were breached. Adultery is classified as a crime in the military. Jill Kelley has been in the news this week after it emerged that she was the target of harassing emails from Paula Broadwell, a 40-year-old mother of two from Charlotte, North Carolina who was engaged in an affair with David Petraeus. Paula Broadwell sent Jill Kelley a half dozen emails from anonymous accounts earlier this ye…
President Barack Obama has arrived in Afghanistan on a previously unannounced visit. Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai have signed a 10-year accord charting future relations between the countries. The agreement outlines the US role in Afghanistan after 2014, when most NATO combat forces are due to pull out. Barack Obama is also due to give a TV address to Americans back home. The vis…
…ps burnt copies of the Koran last month. US officials have apologized repeatedly for the incident at a NATO base in Kabul but they failed to quell a series of protests and attacks that killed at least 30 people and six US troops. The unnamed soldier, thought to be a staff sergeant, is reported to have walked off his base at around 03:00 a.m. local time, then made his way to the nearby villages of…
…Some reports say Yemeni troops were involved, others that it was an air strike, possibly a US drone attack. Said al-Shihri, a Saudi national, was released by the US from detention in Guantanamo Bay in 2007. Yemen has previously announced it had killed Said al-Shihri and his death this time has not been confirmed. The Yemeni army has been fighting Islamist militants in the south of the country for…
US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has arrived in Afghanistan in a surprise visit after a NATO soldier shot dead 16 civilians. According to the officials, Leon Panetta’s trip to Afghanistan was planned before 16 Afghan civilians were shot dead by an American soldier on Sunday. Leon Panetta is due to have talks with President Hamid Karzai, provincial leaders and senior officials. Correspondents say…
…Pakistan’s historic ties to the Taliban. At a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday, Afghan Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul said the attacks had killed dozens of civilians. The UN says around 4,000 people have been displaced due to cross-border shelling. Last month, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart, Asif Ali Zardari, agreed to send a joint military delegation to…
…e this may have caused”, including to the president of Afghanistan, the Afghan government and “the noble people of Afghanistan”. In April last year at least one person was killed and 18 injured in successive days of protests in Afghanistan over the burning of a Koran in the US. …
de guidance to the Pakistan-based operation. Analysts have said that he was in charge of day-to-day operations in Pakistan’s tribal areas. He was reported killed in a drone strike in Pakistan in 2009, but it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity. Pakistan’s frontier tribal region is considered a hub of activity by al-Qaeda and Taliban militants and it is very difficult to verify…
At least 50 people have been killed and more than 70 have been injured in bomb attacks in southern Iraq and in the capital Baghdad. Provincial officials said at least Shia pilgrims died in a suicide attack near the city of Nasiriya. Earlier, Iraq’s Interior Ministry said at least 24 people were killed in blasts in Shia areas of Baghdad. The attacks come amid a rise in sectarian tensions aft…
tensive efforts by NATO-led forces in recent years to improve security there. The United Nations said on Saturday that civilian deaths in Afghanistan had risen for the fifth year in a row – with 3,021 deaths in 2011 compared with 2,790 in 2010 and 2,412 in 2009….
A suicide bomber has killed at least 20 people, three of them NATO soldiers, in the eastern Afghan city of Khost, according to NATO and local officials. NATO did not confirm the nationalities of the soldiers, but correspondents say US troops operate in the area. The Taliban claimed the attack, which also killed 10 civilians, six police and an Afghan interpreter for NATO. Witnesses said the attack…
games. Elsewhere on Bastion there is a cigar bar and a steak restaurant, called Blues. Those working on the base are regularly awakened by the distant sound of heavy ordnance being disposed of, and a 5:00 a.m. call to prayer from a loudspeaker on top of the local mosque. Recently Prince Harry has had a high-profile presence at the London 2012 Olympic Games. He then went to Las Vegas on a private…
…n so-called “green-on-blue” attacks, had prompted the new restrictions, ISAF said. Fifty-one NATO troops have been killed by Afghan soldiers so far this year – 15 in August alone. In 2008, just two soldiers died in such attacks – though ISAF and Afghan force numbers have also increased substantially in the period. Four US soldiers and two UK soldiers died in rogue attacks a…
At least 37 people have been killed by an avalanche in Badakhshan province, north-eastern Afghanistan, according to officials. The provincial governor’s office said another six people were injured when the snow hit a village in Shekay district, near the Tajikistan border. The village had been wiped away, said spokesman Abdul Marouf Rasikh. Badakhshan is one of the country’s poorest an…
…t the scene says debris of the burnt-out police helicopter were strewn in the brush. George Saitoti had been a key figure in Kenyan politics, holding a number of senior ministerial posts over the last 30 years. The professor of mathematics joined Daniel Arap Moi’s government as a finance minister in 1983, going on to become his vice-president in 1988. He briefly stepped down as education min…
Kim Jong-un sends Choe Ryong-hae as special envoy to BeijingKim Jong-un has sent Choe Ryong-hae as special envoy to Beijing, North Korean state media has announced, amid cooling relations between the two neighbors. Choe Ryong-hae, a…
North Korea releases Chinese fishing crew The Chinese fishing crew seized by North Koreans two weeks ago has been freed along with their boat, reports say. The 16-man crew was taken captive by unidentified North…
China urges North Korea to release Yu Xuejun's fishing boat captured for $100,000 ransomChina has called on North Korea to secure the release of a fishing boat and its crew seized earlier this month. Owner Yu Xuejun said the vessel had been in Chinese waters…
Zahra Shahid Hussain funeral: Murdered PTI's vice-president buried in KarachiThe funeral of the murdered vice-president of Pakistan's PTI party, Zahra Shahid Hussain, has been held at a mosque in the country’s capital, Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain…
Imran Khan blames MQM's Altaf Hussain for Zahra Shahid Hussain's killing in KarachiFormer cricketer Imran Khan, the leader of Pakistan's PTI party, has blamed one of his political rivals for the killing of PTI vice-president Zahra Shahid Hussain. Zahra…
Zahra Shahid Hussain shot dead in KarachiSenior Pakistani politician Zahra Shahid Hussain has been shot dead in the southern port city of Karachi. Zahra Shahid Hussain was the senior vice-president of Pakistan's…
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