Topic: Nato

Military leaders to meet to salvage US-Pakistan ties

The top US and Pakistani military leaders were to meet on the sidelines of NATO talks in hopes of fixing strained ties following the US raid that killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, a US defense official said Thursday.Joint Chiefs of Staff ...

NATO, Afghan forces still battling Taliban attackers

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 ...

Seven dead in deadly Taliban assault on Kabul

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 ...
Taliban gunmen with suicide vests and rockets launched spectacular, coordinated attacks in Kabul Tuesday, targeting the US embassy and NATO's headquarters and killing at least seven people.Afghan forces had not managed to end the siege after ten hours and at least ten ...
Triple suicide blasts and shootings killed 19 people including a local BBC reporter in an ongoing attack on Uruzgan province Thursday that was the deadliest to hit Afghanistan in more than a month.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the coordinated assault that began ...

NATO hands control of Mazar-i-Sharif to Afghans

NATO troops on Saturday handed control of Afghanistan's northern capital Mazar-i-Sharif to local forces amid rising security fears just days after it was hit by a deadly bombing.Mazar-i-Sharif is the sixth of seven areas to transition to Afghan control, but critics say ...

Bomb rocks government offices in Oslo, two said dead

OSLO, Norway (Reuters) - A massive bomb shattered Norway's main government building in Oslo Friday, killing two people police were quoted as saying by local news agency NTB.There was no claim of responsibility, though NATO member Norway has been the target of ...

Suicide attack hits memorial for Karzai's brother

A suicide bomber on Thursday targeted a memorial service for the assassinated brother of the Afghan president, killing three people including a senior cleric and a child.Local officials said 15 people were wounded when the attacker blew himself up in a mosque ...

Afghan governor escapes bomb attack

A bomb attack on Wednesday hit the motorcade of a key Afghan governor en route to the funeral of President Hamid Karzai's brother, wounding two Afghan troops, the government said.The governor of Helmand province, Gulab Mangal, and the provincial chief of intelligence ...

Blasts kill 20 in Afghan flashpoints

A series of bombs and explosions killed 20 people in Afghanistan's southern and eastern flashpoints on Saturday, among them at least eight children and four women, government officials said.The attacks came as the UN said that May was the deadliest month for ...