Taliban surround central Afghan city of Ghazni: Officials"The situation in Ghazni city is very critical...the Taliban use civilian houses as hideouts and fire upon the ANDSF (Afghan security force...
13 Jul, 2021, 02.33 PM IST
Afghan forces repel Taliban assault on provincial capital, governor Abdullah Qarluq saysMore than a dozen Taliban fighters were killed in air strikes by the Afghan Air Force on hideouts on the outskirts of Takhar's provincial c...
13 Jul, 2021, 09.09 AM IST
Afghan special forces moved in on Taliban, only to find they had melted awayIt also underlined the difficulty in facing an enemy that mixes open assaults on checkpoints, villages, towns and cities with hit-and-run t...
12 Jul, 2021, 04.30 PM IST
India evacuates diplomats, security personnel from Kandahar as Taliban captures new areas"However, due to the intense fighting near Kandahar city, India-based personnel have been brought back for the time being. I want to emphas...
12 Jul, 2021, 12.23 PM IST
Afghan police say Kabul mosque bombing kills 12 worshipersThe explosion comes on the second day of a three-day ceasefire announced by the warring Taliban and Afghan government. The pause was for th...
14 May, 2021, 05.14 PM IST
Twelve policemen killed in Afghanistan attacksThe two separate attacks in the provinces of Logar and Kandahar came as the top US military commander in Afghanistan, General Scott Miller,...
26 Apr, 2021, 12.49 PM IST
AQIS operative Mohammed Abdur Rehman admits link with Kandahar plane hijack terroristsAl-Qaeda Indian sub-continent operative Rehman had provided safe shelter in Cuttack to a Pakistani terrorist involved in Kandahar plane hij...
13 Jul, 2018, 07.35 PM IST
Official: Taliban kill 27 police in security post attacksMatiullah Helal, acting provincial police spokesman, says at least 15 other police were wounded when the insurgents stormed various securit...
14 Nov, 2017, 01.48 PM IST
Amarinder Singh’s ‘pro-Khalistan’ Harjit Sajjan is MEA’s war heroWhile Amarinder Singh has called Sajjan and his Sikh colleagues in the Canadian government pro-Khalistan sympathisers, the ministry of exte...
15 Apr, 2017, 11.22 AM IST
- Key accused of Kandahar hijacking case Mehrajuddin Dand nabbed in Jammu
The Jammu and Kashmir Police has arrested Mehrajuddin Dand, one of the key accused in the Kandahar hijacking case.
14 Sep, 2012, 04.30 AM IST
- Top terrorist involved in Kandahar hijack arrested
Top militant Mehrajuddin Wani has been arrested in Kishtwar district by the Jammu and Kashmir police which said he was a "big catch".
13 Sep, 2012, 07.05 PM IST
Kandahar hijack suspect Mehrajuddin arrested in Jammu and KashmirJ&K Police has arrested a top militant who is suspected to have provided logistical support to hijackers of IC-814 in 1999 and was operatin...
13 Sep, 2012, 11.53 AM IST
- Bodyguard kills Afghan prez Karzai’s half-brother
Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s half-brother Ahmed Wali Karzai was assassinated on Tuesday by a senior and highly trusted aide at his home.
13 Jul, 2011, 06.49 AM IST
- Taliban kill Afghanistan's most high-profile policewoman
Taliban militants shot dead the most high-profile female police officer in Afghanistan Sunday and killed four more policemen in other attac...
28 Sep, 2008, 09.57 PM IST
- 6 killed in Taliban suicide attack in Afghanistan
A suicide bomber on a motorbike blew himself up near two police vehicles in a border town in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing six pe...
28 Sep, 2008, 08.18 PM IST
- Blasts rock Kandahar police headquarters
Two explosions rocked the police headquarters in Afghanistan's insurgency-hit southern province of Kandahar on Sunday, apparently causing c...
07 Sep, 2008, 03.26 PM IST
- 15 killed in Afghan suicide blast
A suicide attack on US convoy in southern Afghanistan kills 15 people, including 11 civilians.
18 Aug, 2007, 02.26 PM IST