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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters shot dead at least 12 workers clearing mines Saturday in southern Afghanistan, authorities said, part of a series of attacks that saw two U.S. troops killed and a top Afghan court official gunned down. Security in the capital, Kabul, has been stepped...

KARACHI: Pakistan Navy successfully tested Torpedo and anti-ship guided missiles during war exercises on Saturday. According to Pakistan Navy spokesperson, during the fire power exercises Torpedo missile was fired from Augusta 90 B class submarine while anti ship guided missile was fired...

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber attacked an Afghan army bus in Kabul on Sunday, killing four people and wounding up to 22, police said, the latest incident in a worrying surge of violence in the Afghan capital over the past 10 days. The Taliban quickly claimed responsibility for the attack, the...

A gunman shot and killed five cricket players in Laghman province, Afghanistan, on Thursday. The Afghan authorities have said that the man on a motorcycle opened fire at the group of local cricketers in Alinghar distrcit while they were playing a game. A provincial spokesman, Sarhadii Zhouak...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan official says 15 policemen have been killed and another 10 wounded in a Taliban ambush in western Afghanistan's Farah province. Farah provincial spokesman Abdul Rahman Zhawandai said Thursday that the Afghan National Police squad was on patrol along the...

KABUL/GHAZNI: Taliban fighters have kidnapped a female parliamentarian who was travelling by car through Afghanistan’s central Ghazni province with her children, a local police commander said on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile, violent attacks on women. Successive, often...

A suicide bomber rode a donkey onTuesday into an Afghan and Nato military convoy, killing three Western soldiers and their Afghan interpreter, officials said. Nato’s International Security Assistance Force confirmed three casualties in a bombing in eastern Afghanistan but gave no details...

Ranchi: Naxals carried out a daring attack in Jharkhand’s Pakur district on Tuesday when they attacked a police motorcade killing seven cops. Reports said the Naxals attacked the motorcade of Pakur Superintendent of Police Amarjeet Balihan when he was returning from a meeting. Balihan as...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan authorities say a regional police commander and three of his men were killed when their vehicle was hit with a roadside bomb in the country's north. Baghlan provincial police spokesman Jaweed Basharat said district commander Habinul Rahman was killed Monday...

nsurgents killed nearly 300 Afghan local and national police in the span of a month, the Interior Ministry said Monday, as casualties continue to mount among local forces now that NATO-led coalition troops have handed over responsibility for combat operations. Interior Ministry spokesman...

Attackers open fire on guards and CIA base after using fake security passes to enter fortified diplomatic zone Taliban gunmen launched a suicide attack near the presidential palace and CIA offices in Kabul after using fake security passes to get into the fortified diplomatic zone and killing...

AT least eight soldiers have been killed and 13 wounded after suspected Muslim militants targeted an army convoy in India-administered Kashmir, police say. The attack that took place on a highway on the outskirts of state capital Srinagar came a day before Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was to...

(Reuters) - A fresh effort to end Afghanistan's 12-year-old war looked in disarray on Thursday after a diplomatic spat about the Taliban's new Qatar office delayed preliminary discussions between the United States and the Islamist insurgents. Talks between U.S. officials and representatives...

11 June 2013 – The United Nations mission in Afghanistan strongly condemned today’s attack against government employees in the capital, Kabul, which killed at least 17 civilians and injured 40 – the latest incident amid a worsening security environment in the country. Initial reports...

An Afghan soldier shot dead three US troops on Saturday in the east of the country, the latest "insider attack" to shake efforts by the two armies to work together to defeat the Taliban insurgency. An Afghan policeman walks behind a US soldier serving with the International Security...

8 persons injured in Kashmir grenade attack Raja Ishfaq Lateef Srinagar: Suspected ultras lobbed a hand grenade at an Army vehicle in Southern Part of Kashmir's Islamabad district, some 50 kilometers from summer capital Srinagar. At least eight persons, including two Jammu and Kashmir...

Gardez, AFGHANISTAN (Reuters) - A suicide bomber detonated a motorbike packed with explosives outside a boys' high school in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing about 10 students, at least one U.S. soldier, and wounding a further 20 students, officials said. The blast at about noon in...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — NATO says three of its service members and one civilian working with the international coalition in Afghanistan have been killed in three separate attacks in the country's east and south. The coalition says in the east, insurgents killed one service member and the...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban on Friday denied any role in this week's attack on an International Committee of the Red Cross compound in eastern Afghanistan, saying they had previously co-operated with the aid agency and did not support targeting it. The rare public denial by the...