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By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL (AA) – At least two Turkish nationals and one Afghan were killed Saturday — and two other Turkish nationals injured — when an unidentified gunman opened fire on them in Kabul, according to a local police official. The attack occurred at about 7pm local time in a Turkish Bazaar in […]

3rd Mar 2016

Afghanistan: 7 killed in Indian consulate attack in Nangarhar

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL (AA) – At least seven people were killed and another 19 injured on Wednesday when gunmen wearing explosive vests attacked the Indian consulate in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, according to Afghan officials. The attack began after a suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle near the consulate in Jalalabad, located some […]

30th Jan 2016

Turkey: Ten dead as refugee boat sinks off western Turkey

CANAKKALE (AA) – Ten people, including five children, drowned off Turkey’s western coast Saturday, the Turkish Coast Guard said, in what is the latest loss of refugees in the region. Their boat was heading for Lesbos, one of the main Greek islands located just a few kilometers (miles) off Turkey’s Aegean coastline. Among the casualties […]

22nd Jan 2016

Obama expands Daesh airstrikes to Afghanistan

WASHINGTON (AA) – The White House expanded the Pentagon’s authorities to strike Daesh militants in Afghanistan, a defense official said Thursday. “We have made some adjustments to the authorities there to be able to make clear that we have the authority to go after ISIL-KP” Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said, using the acronym for […]

21st Jan 2016

Afghanistan: Blast near Russian embassy in Kabul kills 6

KABUL, (AA): At least six people were killed and another 24 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Russian embassy in Kabul on Wednesday evening, according to Afghan officials. The attacker, riding a motorbike, reportedly targeted a bus carrying employees of a prominent private television channel. Deputy Interior Minister Mohammad Ayob Salangi […]

6th Jan 2016

Afghanistan: US soldier killed in Helmand province

[Photo: Officials remove the wreckage of police wehicle from the scene after a bomb attack killing three people, including two policemen, in Kolpak region in Lashkar Gah, capital of Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan, on December 27,2015. Photgrapher: Abdul Hadi Roshan/AA] Kasım İleri WASHINGTON (AA) – One U.S. soldier was killed Tuesday in Afghanistan in a […]

22nd Dec 2015

Afghanistan: 6 NATO service members killed

WASHINGTON /KABUL (AA): At least six NATO-led coalition troops were killed as a result of suicide car bombing near Bagram airfield, the biggest U.S. base in Afghanistan on Monday afternoon as the security situation has deteriorated in other parts of the country. The suicide attack took place early afternoon in Bagram district, Parwan province, some 60 km […]

12th Dec 2015

Afghanistan: Suicide bombers attack Spanish embassy kills six

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL, (AA, ): A large explosion rocked Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Friday evening, police said. Six people were killed and many injured in the attacks. Officials said the attackers reportedly targeted the Spanish embassy and had entered a building near the compound. “Kabul police are at the site of the explosion,” Sediq Sediqqi, spokesman for […]

26th Nov 2015

US: ‘Human error’ caused deadly strike on Afghanistan hospital

WASHINGTON (AA) – An airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders’ (MSF) hospital in Afghanistan that killed 30 victims was “caused primarily by human error”, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said Wednesday. Army Gen. John Campbell briefed reporters via video conference on details of a joint investigation by the U.S., NATO and Afghan government into the […]

16th Nov 2015

Afghanistan: US drone strike kills 12 people in E Afghanistan

KABUL, (AA): At least 12 militants, including nine foreign nationals, were killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, Afghan officials said Sunday. A spokesman for Provincial Governor Ahmad Zai Abdulzai told Anadolu Agency that the drone had targeted a militant concentration in Nangarhar’s Khogiani district on Saturday night, killing a dozen […]

9th Nov 2015

Afghanistan: 25 Daesh fighters killed in E Afghanistan

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL, (AA): At least 25 fighters affiliated with the Daesh militant group were killed Saturday night in an operation carried out by Afghan security forces in the eastern Nangarhar province, Afghan officials said Monday. The operation was conducted in Nangarhar’s Achin district and surrounding areas, where Daesh militants, according to provincial […]

28th Oct 2015

Rescue efforts underway as S Asia quake leaves 385 dead

By Aamir Latif and Zabihullah Tamanna ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): A powerful earthquake that rocked Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday has left hundreds dead. Officials from both countries put the combined death toll at 385 on Tuesday. In northwestern Pakistan, rescue workers dug through the debris and mounds of mud as fears of aftershocks of the massive […]

28th Oct 2015

UK to keep soldiers in Afghanistan in 2016

LONDON (AA): Britain has decided not to withdraw its soldiers from Afghanistan in order to bolster the country’s security forces fighting the Taliban, said the U.K. defense secretary. Michael Fallon said it would take time for the Afghan military to develop into “a fully-fledged fighting force capable of providing complete security for the people of […]

27th Oct 2015

310 killed as powerful quake rocks Pakistan, Afghanistan

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Scores of people were killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan — mostly in the former’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province — after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook southern Asia on Monday afternoon (9:32 GMT). According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake’s epicenter was 45 kilometers south-southwest of Jarm, Afghanistan, near the border with Pakistan. At least 186 people were […]

26th Oct 2015

S. Asia quake kills scores in Pakistan, Afghanistan

KARACHI, Pakistan (AA): Scores of people have been killed in Pakistan and Afghanistan — mostly in the former’s Khyber Pakhtunkhawa (KP) province — after a 7.5-magnitude earthquake shook southern Asia on early Monday afternoon (9:32 GMT). According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the epicenter of the quake was 45 kilometers south-southwest of Jarm, Afghanistan, near […]

22nd Oct 2015

US, Pakistan discuss additional efforts to fight terror

WASHINGTON (AA): U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif have discussed the need for broader efforts to defeat terrorism in the region. “The two leaders discussed the need for additional efforts to target all terrorists in its territory,” U.S. State Department spokesman John Kirby said Wednesday during a press briefing, […]

8th Oct 2015

Afghanistan: Obama apologises to aid group for deadly airstrike

WASHINGTON (AA) : President Barack Obama apologized to Doctors Without Borders International President Joanne Liu during a phone call Wednesday morning, following a deadly strike on one of the group’s medical facilities in Afghanistan. Obama “assured Dr. Liu that the Department of Defense investigation currently underway would provide a transparent, thorough and objective accounting of the […]

6th Oct 2015

Afghanistan: US Gen shifts hospital bombing blame to Afghans

WASHINGTON (AA): Deadly U.S. airstrikes on a medical clinic in northern Afghanistan were not requested by U.S forces but by Afghan troops under a Taliban attack, a top U.S. general said Monday. “We have now learned that on Oct. 3, Afghan forces advised that they were taking fire from enemy positions and asked for air support from […]

5th Oct 2015

Afghanistan: US Kunduz hospital bombing deaths increase to 22

ANKARA (AA): The death toll from Saturday’s bombing of a hospital in northern Afghanistan has risen to 22, operator Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Sunday. “It is 12 MSF staff members and 10 patients, including three children, who were killed in the attack,” MSF General Director Christopher Stokes, said. On Saturday, MSF had said that at […]

4th Oct 2015

Afghanistan: US airstrikes on hospital kills 19, incl 3 children, in Kunduz

KABUL/NEW YORK (AA): US airstrikes in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz on hospital killed 19 and wounded 37 people early Saturday morning, Afghan health officials said. Although the country’s interior ministry said Taliban militants were targeted, medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said at least 12 of its workers and seven patients died, including three children, and 37 people injured, in the […]

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