Afghanistan

KHOST, Afghanistan (AFP) – The remaining three members of a 13-person demining team captured in eastern Afghanistan a week ago have been freed, officials said without making clear who had seized them.The men — two deminers and a driver — were freed in Paktia province late Wednesday after mediation by …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Airstrikes and Afghan army gunfire killed more than 45 suspected Taliban fighters in a clash in a southern province just as the holy month of Ramadan began, the U.S.-led coalition said.The battle in the southern province of Uruzgan on Wednesday began when insurgents attacked a joint Afghan …

KABUL (Reuters) – U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed more than 45 Islamist Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.More than 7,000 people have been killed during the past 19 months in Afghanistan, the worst violence since the militants’ U.S.-led ouster in 2001. In separate incidents, an Afghan …

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Pentagon said on Wednesday an Afghan national it described as a dangerous terrorism suspect had been transferred to the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, CubaThe man, identified only by the name Inayatullah, was captured as part of operations against violent extremists in Afghanistan, the …

KABUL (Reuters) – The United States is concerned over reports that Iranian-made weapons are crossing the Afghan border and reaching Islamist Taliban insurgents, a top U.S. diplomat said on Tuesday.iran supported Afghan groups fighting the Taliban in the 1990s and played a crucial role in helping to topple the Taliban’s …

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber on a motorized rickshaw detonated explosives Monday in a marketplace in southern Afghanistan, killing 28 people in one of the deadliest bombings since the fall of the Taliban. Children selling chewing gum and cigarettes were among the victims of the blast.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Sensing unrest outside a packed stadium, Afghanistan’s president abruptly cut short a speech Sunday as police fired shots into the air in an attempt to restrain a crowd trying to enter, officials said.Shortly after being rushed off the podium, President Hamid Karzai said security in Afghanistan was …

Pakistan – Pro-Taliban militants on Monday freed more than 260 Pakistani troops who were kidnapped nearly two weeks ago in a restive tribal region near the border with Afghanistan, security officials and a militant said.The soldiers were handed over to members of a jirga, or tribal council, in Ladha, a …

KABUL (AFP) – Afghan police said Saturday they had busted an Al-Qaeda-linked “terrorist network” organising suicide bombings in the capital, Kabul, which has suffered a rash of attacks in the past weeks.The network included six militants, some of whom were foreigners, who were arrested this week in Logar Province just …

KABUL (AFP) – At least 50 Taliban rebels have been killed in two days of operations by Afghan and US-led troops across insurgency-hit southern Afghanistan, the defense ministry said Saturday.In a single operation in the southern province of Kandahar, more than 40 rebels were killed, the ministry said in a …