Afghanistan Press

FACTBOX: Military deaths in Afghanistan

(Reuters) – A British soldier in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, was killed in a firefight with Taliban militants on Tuesday, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in …

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FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan

(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 4:30 a.m. EDT on Sunday: KHOST – NATO killed dozens of Taliban insurgents in an air strike on Sunday following an attack by the militants on a government building in southeastern Khost province near the border with Pakistan, the provincial governor …

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FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan

(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Afghanistan reported until 6:30 a.m. EDT on Monday. HELMAND – U.S.-led coalition forces have killed 20 Taliban insurgents, many of them Pakistanis, in an air strike on Sunday night in Kajaki district of southern Helmand province, a provincial spokesman Dawud Ahmadi said on …

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FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan

(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Afghanistan at 6:00 a.m. EDT on Saturday: KANDAHAR – An improvised explosive device (IED) killed four U.S.-led coalition soldiers and wounded two more in the southern province of Kandahar, the U.S. military said.

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FACTBOX: Security developments in Afghanistan

(Reuters) – Following are security developments in Afghanistan at noon ET on Friday: GHAZNI – Afghan and foreign troops regained control of a remote town briefly occupied by Taliban insurgents in Ghazni province, south of Kabul, the provincial governor said.

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