NATO troops in Afghanistan have been placed on high alert after the Taliban militants vowed to avenge the deaths of 16 innocent civilians killed by a rogue U.S. soldier who opened fire in Kandahar province early Sunday morning. US officials warned of reprisals after the soldier went on a rampage in villages near a base in Kandahar. Nine children were among those killed. President Barack Obama pho…
President Barack Obama has pledged to “finish the job” and end the Afghan war, addressing the US public live from a military base in Afghanistan. Speaking a year after Osama Bin Laden’s death, Barack Obama thanked US troops and hailed plans to end combat operations. He arrived in Afghanistan on a publicly unannounced visit to sign an agreement on future Afghan-US ties with Presi…
…ed a group of insurgents, armed with rocket propelled grenade launchers and AK-47 assault rifles. An exchange of fire initiated shortly after, resulting in several insurgents killed. Photos made by 1st LT P.Babilas – Joint PRT,GIRoA and ANSF Long range patrol to LAL VA SANJARGAL (4) In other International Security Assistance Force news throughout Afghanistan: South In Arghandab di…
General John R. Allen, a second top military official, was dragged in to the David Petraeus sex scandal early this morning after being accused of sending thousands of “inappropriate” emails to socialite Jill Kelley, who was responsible for exposing the former CIA director’s extra-marital affair. General John R. Allen, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, is under investigation…
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…
Afghanistan has blocked the entry of all newspapers from Pakistan, saying they serve Taliban militants. In its order, the interior ministry said the newspapers “are a propaganda resource of the Taliban spokesmen” and has ordered police forces in east Afghanistan to confiscate all copies. The latest move comes amid increasing tension between the two countries. Afghanistan has blocked…
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…
…Team, the secret Navy commando unit that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011. Three Air Force air controllers, seven Afghan soldiers, a dog and its trainer, an interpreter and the crew belonging to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment were also aboard the helicopter. It is not known if among the Saturday dead soldiers were those who took part of al-Qaeda leader killing mission in early Ma…
…ths 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 soldiers who died of their injuries in hospital. The figure also covers 339 non-combat deaths. A report by the Brookings Institution estim…
Prince Harry has been deployed to Afghanistan for four months, UK’s Ministry of Defence says. Prince Harry, 27, an Apache helicopter pilot, arrived on Thursday night at the main British base, Camp Bastion in Helmand. The third in line to the throne will take part in combat missions against the Taliban. It is his second Afghanistan deployment – Prince Harry spent 10 weeks in Helmand province in 20…
…and Germany – have made pledged to an international fund set to help Afghan forces after the NATO pullout. The US is expected to pay half of an estimated $4 billion needed every year. More than 10 years after the US toppled the Taliban regime, violence is continuing unabated in Afghanistan. According to UN figures, the number of deaths reached a record 3,031 in 2011 – the great majori…
…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. …
Two civilians and at least five police officers have died in a car bomb attack on police headquarters in the city of Kandahar, southern Afghanistan. Other 19 people were wounded in the blast in a car park outside the police building, the local government said. The blast – thought to have been caused by explosives hidden inside a parked car and detonated remotely – was strong enough to…
…s due to take over as NATO’s top commander – his appointment has been suspended while his relationship with Jill Kelley is investigated. John Allen, who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1976, was Deputy Commander of Central Command, based in Tampa, prior to taking over in Afghanistan. He also is a veteran of the Iraq war. He lives in Washington D.C. with his wife, Kathy, with whom h…
…imself was wearing a police uniform. Attacks in northern Afghanistan are far less common than in the south and east, and Faryab province has been considered to be relatively peaceful. However at least 10 people were killed in an incident in April 2012 when a suicide bomber on a motorbike targeted a meeting of officials near the main vegetable market in Maymana. …
…217;s old city. People rush to the scene to help those injured in the blast, people who moments earlier had been praying and chanting with scores of other worshippers. Another 4 people were killed and 17 injured after a bicycle bomb exploded near the main mosque in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif shortly afterwards. One witness said the bomber was at the end of a line and detonated his explosi…
Forty-two people have been killed and more than 130 others wounded in a series of suicide attacks in the south-west and north of Afghanistan. At least 11 bombers targeted the city of Zaranj, police said, but not all had been able to blow themselves up. Shortly afterwards, police in the northern province of Kunduz said 12 people were killed by another bomb. The bombers had reportedly attacked crow…
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…
The Taliban are not usually known for their sense of humor, but when it comes to the troubles of their enemies it seems they can see the lighter side. A spokesman for the Islamic fundamentalist group this week mocked David Petraeus’ extra-marital affair which led to his resignation as director of the CIA, describing him as a “bastard”. He added that David Petraeus would have been executed f…
The American soldier who shot dead 16 civilians, including women and children, in Afghanistan on Sunday has been flown to Kuwait, US officials say. Afghan MPs have demanded that the man be tried in Afghanistan, but the scenario is very unlikely. Meanwhile an Afghan man who crashed a lorry at an airfield as the US defense secretary’s plane was arriving has died of his injuries, officials say…
Sgt. Brandon Morgan, the gay marine whose homecoming kiss with his boyfriend Dalan Wells went viral yesterday has revealed that their passionate embrace was the couple’s first ever. Sgt. Brandon Morgan, of Oakdale, California, told Khon2.com how a four year friendship with Windward Oahu artist Dalan Wells turned to long-distance love while he was serving with the US Marines in Afghanistan….
…ies. The group has objected to this, as they regard the Kabul government as illegitimate. Meanwhile, President Hamid Karzai has called on NATO forces to leave Afghan villages after a US soldier killed 16 civilians. According to officials, the priority for Afghan government was to avoid civilian casualties at any cost. President Hamid Karzai told the visiting US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that…
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…
Sahar Gul, a teenage bride from Afghanistan, who was tortured for months after her arranged marriage, has spoken out for the first time since her rescue, saying she hopes her husband and his family are jailed for her abuse. 15-year-old Sahar Gul became the bruised and bloodied face of women’s rights in Afghanistan after she was rescued in late December when an uncle called police. Speaking…
…civilians, including nine children and three women, have been shot dead by a US soldier in Afghanistan entering their homes in Kandahar province In one house in Najeeban, the gunman reportedly killed 11 people, setting fire to their bodies before he left. A relative of the 11 victims, Haji Samad, told Reuters news agency chemicals had been poured over the bodies and set alight. “I saw that…
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