Topic: Kabul
KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide attack on a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Kabul on Tuesday killed up to 20 people and injured five, a senior police official said, adding that the death toll was expected to rise.Hundreds of people had gathered at ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces have killed an attempted suicide bomber near the location of this week's 'Loya Jirga' traditional assembly in the Afghan capital Kabul, a spokesman for the interior ministry said on Monday."A suicide bomber who was carrying a ...
Security guards shot dead a suicide bomber on Sunday who tried to assassinate Afghan Interior Minister Bismullah Khan in an area north of Kabul, a spokesman for the ministry told AFP.The failed attempt on Khan, who once fought against the Taliban, comes ...
Pakistan's prime minister has turned on the US over its allegations of links to the Haqqani terror network, saying the "blame game is self-defeating" and US policy in Afghanistan is in "disarray".The two countries are key allies in the war against Islamist ...
The Pakistani Prime Minister Saturday rejected US allegations linking Islamabad with the Haqqani terror network, saying the "blame game is self-defeating".Yousuf Raza Gilani said such accusations would only benefit the militants, and added that they showed US policy in Afghanistan was in ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. agencies are looking into possible similarities between the September 13 attacks on U.S. and NATO targets in Afghanistan, and the November 2008 attack by militants on civilian targets in Mumbai, India.Current and former U.S. counterterrorism officials told Reuters ...
KABUL (Reuters) - The head of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, who had been tasked with trying to negotiate a political end to the war, was killed early on Tuesday evening, a senior police officer said.His home is in ...
A dramatic Taliban assault on the heart of Kabul inflicted relatively little damage, but scored an important strategic victory for insurgents who showed again they can strike at will, analysts said.The United States ambassador to Afghanistan dismissed the raid, which left 15 ...
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan security forces backed by NATO attack helicopters fought Taliban insurgents floor-by-floor in an unfinished high-rise in the center of Kabul on Wednesday, more than 15 hours after the biggest militant assault on the Afghan capital began.It was not ...
Afghan forces Wednesday struggled to dislodge the last of the Taliban fighters who mounted a spectacular assault on Kabul, targeting the US embassy and NATO headquarters with rockets and suicide bombs and killing at least seven people.The battle which broke out on ...
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