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Rain, storms kill 121 in Afghanistan and Pakistan in two weeksAcross the border in Pakistan, 44 people were killed following heavy rains in the last weeks, officials said. At least 32 people died in th...
Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict: Islamabad strikes Kandahar military facilities and TTP hideoutsPakistan conducted strikes on military facilities and terrorist hideouts in southern Afghanistan, targeting infrastructure and a tunnel all...
Pakistan bombs fuel depot of private airline near Kandahar airport, Afghan Taliban saysPakistan has bombed the fuel depot of private airline Kam Air near Afghanistan's Kandahar airport. The Afghan Taliban spokesperson confirme...
Pakistan carried out 'precision strikes' in Kabul: Pakistani security sourceAfter a series of tragic border confrontations that resulted in significant loss of life, Pakistan has initiated targeted strikes in the Ka...
One dead as fresh clashes erupt between Afghan, Pakistani border forcesPreviously, cross-border shelling and gunfire killed eight Pakistani civilians and one Afghan soldier on Sunday near the same crossing, whi...
Six Pakistanis, one Afghan soldier killed in cross-border clashThe Pakistan army said Afghan border forces had opened "unprovoked and indiscriminate fire of heavy weapons including artillery/mortar onto...
Afghan cities taken over or contested by TalibanFollowing is a list of provincial capitals that have fallen to, or are being contested by the Islamist militants, who are fighting to reimp...
Thousands of Afghan families flee fighting in former Taliban bastionSince early May, violence has surged across several provinces including in Kandahar after the insurgents launched a sweeping offensive just...
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...
Afghan army: Two officers killed by roadside bomb in northern Balkh provinceThe attack was the latest amid relentless violence in Afghanistan even as Taliban and Afghan government negotiators hold talks in Qatar, tr...
Peace seems impossible on Afghanistan's front lines even as US, Taliban engage in talks"Since the talks began, the fighting has intensified every day," said Ahmad Ikhlas, a police commander with hearing damage from a recent Ta...
Afghans shut out by polling station chaos return to voteAround three million Afghans voted on Saturday, election officials said but across the country there were complaints that polling stations ...
States 'hosting' terror sanctuaries must eliminate them: India"We strongly condemn the barbaric attack today at the Afghan National Army base in Kandahar province," MEA said in a statement Thursday.
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...
10 killed in militant attack on Afghan army campThe attack happened on the Achakzai camp of army corps 205 in Shah Wali Kot district, where ten soldiers were killed and nine other injured.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Sixty rebels said to be killed in Afghanistan
Afghan and international security forces have killed about 60 militants in days of fighting in southern and eastern Afghanistan, the govern...
- 15 killed in Afghan suicide blast
A suicide attack on US convoy in southern Afghanistan kills 15 people, including 11 civilians.