Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban said they launched a spring offensive on Sunday with multiple attacks against Western embassies in the central diplomatic area and at parliament in Kabul, with heavy explosions, rockets and gunfire rattling the city. The assault, one of the most serious on the capital since US-backed Afghan forces removed the Taliban from power in 2001, highlighted the ability of militants to strike the heavily guarded diplomatic zone even...
10:56 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Kandhar: Western forces shot dead 16 civilians including nine children in southern Kandahar province on Sunday, Afghan officials said, in a rampage that witnesses said was carried out by American soldiers who were laughing and appeared drunk. One Afghan father who said his children were killed in the shooting spree accused soldiers of later burning the bodies. Witnesses told Reuters they saw a group of US soldiers arrive at their...
10:59 PM, Mar 11, 2012
Kandahar: A car bomb exploded just outside the police headquarters of a southern Afghanistan city on Sunday, killing at least seven people, officials said. The blast went off at a parking lot outside the police building in Kandahar, said Saisal Ahmad, a spokesman for the provincial government. Five police officers and two civilians were killed, and least 19 people were wounded, he added. The blast was large enough that it...
02:32 PM, Feb 05, 2012
Three blasts have been reported from Kabul and Kandahar killing over 50 people and injuring many more. ...
10:25 PM, Dec 06, 2011
Perth: Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Sunday said the killing of three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan will not undermine Canberra's will to continue its mission in the war-torn nation as the military deployment there was in national interests. Describing Saturday's deadliest incident for Australian troops in Afghanistan as a 'bitter day for Australia', Gillard said the mission would continue as planned. Three soldiers were killed and seven others were wounded...
02:45 PM, Oct 30, 2011
Kandahar: The Taliban say they sent the suicide bomber who killed the mayor of Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousef Ahmadi told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Mayor Ghulam Haider Hamidi had ordered the destruction of homes that city officials claimed had been illegally constructed. Ahmadi says the Taliban killed the mayor to avenge the deaths of two children who they allege were killed during the demolition...
02:43 PM, Jul 27, 2011
Kandahar: Taliban gunmen unleashed a major assault on Saturday on government buildings throughout Afghanistan's largest southern city - a former Taliban stronghold where international and Afghan forces are trying to establish security and a functioning government. It was the latest in a series of strikes by the Taliban insurgency at high-profile government installations. Shooting started shortly after midday and the gunfire was still ringing through Kandahar city hours later. Government...
06:22 PM, May 07, 2011
Kandahar: The massive security breach that allowed the Taliban to spirit more than 480 Afghan inmates out southern Afghanistan's largest prison must have involved inside collaborators, the Justice Ministry said on Tuesday, as security forces worked to recapture the escaped convicts. Prison officials discovered early Monday morning that the inmates - nearly all of them Taliban militants - were missing from their cells, and then found the tunnel through which...
10:37 PM, Apr 26, 2011
Kandahar: Taliban militants dug a lengthy tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than 450 prisoners, most of whom were Taliban fighters, officials and insurgents said on Monday. The massive overnight jailbreak in Afghanistan's second-largest city underscores the Afghan government's continuing weakness in the south despite an influx of international troops, funding and advisers. Kandahar city, in particular, has been a focus of...
06:28 PM, Apr 25, 2011
Kandahar: Afghan officials say more than 400 inmates have escaped from the main prison in Kandahar city. They say many of the men who dug a tunnel out of the facility are Taliban insurgents. Prison supervisor Ghulam Dastagir Mayar said on Monday that they estimate about 476 prisoners escaped through a tunnel they had dug to the outside. He says the jailbreak happened about 11 pm on Sunday and that...
09:50 AM, Apr 25, 2011
Islamabad: Pakistan media said on Wednesday that the man held in Chile is not the 1999 Indian Airlines IC-814 Kandahar hijacking suspect. Reports quoting Pakistan police said that Mufti Abdul Rauf, named as the conspirator in CBI chargesheet, is in Rawalpindi. The reports have also called it an ugly Indian plot to discredit Rauf. The Chilean police have arrested someone else because Mufti Abdul Rauf, the younger brother of Azhar,...
05:41 PM, Apr 13, 2011
New Delhi: Chile police arrested a man named Abdul Rauf in January 2011, who may be one of the conspirators in the hijacking of Air India IC-814. Rauf was arrested in a case of fake visa but during investigations Chile police found that Interpol had issued a notice against a person named Abdul Rauf who was involved in the hijacking. Rauf is the brother-in-law of dreaded terrorist Maulana Azhar, who...
11:39 AM, Apr 12, 2011
New Delhi: Chile police arrested a man named Abdul Rauf in January 2011, who may be one of the conspirators in the hijacking of Air India IC-814. Rauf was arrested in a case of fake visa but during investigations Chile police found that Interpol has issued a notice against a person named Abdul Rauf who was involved in the hijacking. Rauf is the brother-in-law of dreaded terrorist Maulana Azhar, who...
07:04 PM, Apr 11, 2011
Islamabad: A probe has been initiated into the disappearance of 500 NATO oil tankers and vehicles carrying supplies in Pakistan, an official said. Five hundred oil tankers and vehicles carrying supplies had left Port Qasim in Karachi for Kandahar in Afghanistan, but they didn't reach the Pakistan-Afghanistan border near Chaman, Dawn Sunday quoted a customs official as saying. The customs authorities had cleared the vehicles in Karachi. The investigation was...
01:48 PM, Oct 11, 2010
Kabul: At least 10 Afghans, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday in three bomb blasts that came minutes apart in southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar, the provincial spokesman said. "Our initial information says that one police and ten civilians were killed in three blasts," Zalmai Ayoubi, spokesman for the provincial governor said. Four police officers and 20 civilians injured in the bombings, he said. The first was triggered...
09:31 PM, Oct 05, 2010
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