Topic: Nato

Five Polish soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Taliban bombers killed five Polish soldiers in an attack on their convoy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the deadliest single loss for Warsaw's NATO contingent in the 10-year war."This is the most deadly attack in the history of Polish military missions abroad," Poland's ...

Kabul police station attack ends, no casualties

KABUL (Reuters) - An attack on a police station in the west of Kabul on Friday ended without casualties, police and the Interior Ministry said.An attacker threw a hand grenade at the station, ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi said on his official Twitter ...

Mosque suicide attack kills six in Afghanistan

A suicide bomber on Friday attacked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, assassinating a district police chief and killing at least five other people, a government official said.The attack happened as worshippers were leaving the mosque after the main Friday prayers in the ...

Enraged Pakistan says NATO attack threatens war on

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan, enraged by a NATO cross-border attack that killed 24 soldiers, could end support for the U.S.-led war on militancy if its sovereignty is violated again, the foreign minister said, adding "enough is enough."The South Asian nation has already ...

Rage grips Pakistan over NATO attack

ISLAMABAD/KABUL (Reuters) - Fury spread in Pakistan Sunday over a NATO cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and could undermine the U.S. effort to wind up the war in Afghanistan.Sunday night in Pakistan, more than 40 hours after the incident, ...

Pakistan buries troops amid fury over NATO strike

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan on Sunday buried 24 troops killed in a NATO cross-border air attack that has pushed a crisis in relations between the United States and an ally it needs to fight militancy toward rupture.The incident was the latest ...

Two Afghan guards killed near west Afghan NATO compound

KABUL (Reuters) - Insurgents including suicide bombers killed two Afghan guards working for NATO-led troops in an assault on a security contractor's base in western Afghanistan on Thursday, authorities said.Mahuddin Noori, a spokesman for the governor in western Herat province, said five ...

Blast, fighting heard near west Afghan NATO compound

KABUL (Reuters) - Suspected suicide attackers launched an assault near a base used by NATO-led forces in the western Afghan province of Herat on Thursday, authorities said, and gunfire was still being heard although there was no immediate word on casualties.Herat government ...
Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Algerians to overthrow the government of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, and praised Libyan rebels for seizing Tripoli, in a new video.Osama bin Laden's successor Zawahiri urged Libyans to adopt sharia law as they rebuild the country after ...

US blame game 'self-defeating': Pakistani PM

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 ...
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