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Helicopter gunships have pounded Taliban hideouts in Pakistan’s north-western tribal district overnight, killing at least 13 militants.
Pakistani officials say the shelling destroyed three militant hideouts and two houses of Taliban commanders in the Orakzai region.
The gunships targeted hideouts in Ferozkhel, a village on the outskirts of Kalyal, the main town in Orakzai region.
The demolished houses [...]

WASHINGTON: Nato commanders in Afghanistan have begun traveling to Pakistan to share plans for military operations for the first time, a senior US official has said.
The apparent aim is to make sure that militants don’t slip back and forth the unmarked, mountainous border region to escape coalition or Pakistani forces. According to the official, who [...]

Ottawa, Mar. 5 (ANI): General David Petraeus, the head of U.S. Central Command, has stated that Canada’s decision to pull out troops from Afghanistan has come at a time when the NATO forces are heading toward a decisive victory against the Taliban.
“Having worked hard this past year to get the inputs right … now [the [...]

March 1 (Reuters) – A British soldier has died from wounds from an explosion in Helmand province, taking the number of British dead to 266.
Here are figures for foreign military deaths in Afghanistan caused by violence or accidents since the U.S.-led invasion in 2001:
NATO/U.S.-LED COALITION FORCES:
United States 1,007
Britain 266
Canada 140
France 40*
Germany 36**
Denmark 31***
Spain 28
Italy [...]

Kabul, Sep 18(ANI): In an ambitious aim to help bring an end to the eight-year war in Afghanistan by persuading the Taliban to lay down their arms, British Army Lt. Gen Sir Graeme Lamb said that many Taliban activists have “done nothing wrong”, rather [...]

Washington, Sep.17 (ANI): With accusations of vote fraud piling up around Afghanistan’s presidential election, incumbent Hamid Karzai is unlikely to claim victory any time soon.

At the very least, a national electoral complaints commission investigating fraudulent voting will take weeks to determine how much of [...]

London, Sep.16 (ANI): British troops are a long way from winning the battle against a resilient Taliban in Afghanistan, and the conflict in the country could lead to “major shifts” in military spending, said British Defence Secretary Bob Ainsworth.

“We are facing a resilient enemy which we are far from succeeding against yet,” he told an [...]

Islamabad, Sep.13 (ANI): Two NATO fighter jets reportedly flew inside Pakistan’s airspace for nearly two hours on Saturday.

The airspace violation took place in different parts of the Khyber Agency bordering the Afghan border.

The aircraft were seen hovering over Bacha Mina, Khwaga Khel, Sheikh Mal Khel, Piro Khel, Ashmali Khel, and Loya Shalman areas creating panic [...]

Kabul, Sep. 11 (ANI): Almost eight years after the war began in Afghanistan in the aftermath of the 9/11 carnage, the Taliban insurgency has spread across 80 percent of the country.

The violent incidents this week have drawn attention to the deteriorating security situation of northern Afghanistan, which had largely remained peaceful so far, the Christian [...]

Islamabad, Sep.12 (ANI): Pakistan is looking to rake up the Kashmir issue at the United Nations General Assembly which is scheduled to be held later this month.

According to sources, in two separate meetings held at the Foreign Office, concerned officials briefed Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi regarding both the Kashmir and Afghanistan issues.

Sources said that [...]

Quetta, Sep 10(ANI): Quetta police has arrested three people and seized hundreds of wireless sets, which were stolen from NATO supply containers, during a raid on a warehouse in Pakistan’s Spini area.

Earlier, militants had burnt eight NATO tankers in Quetta and fled with the biggest haul of wireless devices.

The Superintendent of Police of [...]

Kunduz (Afghanistan), Sep 9(ANI): British journalist Stephen Farrell, who was working for the New York Times when he was kidnapped in Afghanistan four days ago, has been rescued by a team of US special forces.

Farrell and his colleague Sultan Munadi went [...]

Islamabad, Sep 8 (ANI): The Pakistan Police has said that unknown armed men on two motorbikes opened fire on oil tankers in Akhtarabad area of Quetta destroying eight of them.

The tankers, which were carrying fuel for NATO forces in Southern Afghanistan, caught fire soon after [...]

Kabul, Sep 8 (ANI): At least two civilians were killed and six others were injured when a suicide car bomb exploded near Kabul’s military airport on Tuesday.

The windows of the city center were rattled due to the blast.

The car bomber rammed the main gate of the airport’s military base [...]

Islamabad, Sep.4 (ANI): Pakistan Information and Broadcasting Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira has rebutted reports regarding Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) giving assurance not to prosecute former President General Pervez Musharraf on high treason charges.

Kaira [...]

Kabul, Sep.4 (ANI): Up to 90 people were feared dead and wounded after a Nato air strike hit two fuel tankers stolen by insurgents in northern Afghanistan.

The blast was thought to have burned alive villagers as they gathered to collect fuel from the tankers when one became [...]

Washington, Sep.2 (ANI): A leading conservative columnist, George Will, has called on the Obama administration to pull American troops out of Afghanistan, and instead focus on fighting from “offshore” by means of “intelligence, drones, cruise [...]

New York, Aug 24 (ANI): American military commanders operating with the NATO led mission in Afghanistan have informed President Barack Obama’s special envoy to the region, Richard C. Holbrooke, that they do not have enough troops to do their job, and are being pushed past their limit by Taliban rebels who operate across borders.

The American [...]

London, Aug.21 (ANI): A former British special forces commander has been appointed to mastermind a program of reconciliation with members of the Taliban, General David Petraeus, the US military chief, said overnight.

Lieutenant-General Sir Graeme Lamb, who retired recently from the British Army, was personally requested by [...]

Kabul, Aug.21 (ANI): British troops have lost a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan after it was hit by ground fire and destroyed by a NATO bomber to keep it out of Taleban hands.

The Chinook was hit by small arms fire as it was taking off north of Sangin, in Helmand province.

A Special Forces unit [...]