Kabul - Afghan and coalition forces killed at least two dozen Taliban in clashes and airstrike in eastern and southern regions, officials claimed Sunday.
Twelve Taliban militants were killed in a US-led coalition airstrike in Sabari district of south-eastern province of Khost on Saturday, Arsala Jamal, provincial governor said.
He said the combined forces targeted a compound where they had intelligence information that militants had gathered.
New Delhi, Sept. 7 A 5.6-magnitude earthquake jolted parts of India, Afghanistan and Pakistan on Saturday.
The quake struck Afghanistan’s Hindukush region near the border with Pakistan, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The epicentre of the tremor was 66 kilometers south of Faizabad and it struck at a depth of 174 kilometers.
Rawalpindi, Sept 6 : Gen Tariq Majid, the Chairman of Pakistan Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC) has said that his country reserves the right to appropriately retaliate against unilateral attacks by coalition forces from Afghanistan.
The statement comes in the wake of recent strikes by US and NATO forces in Pakistan’s tribal areas and statements emanating from the US that such cross-border strikes were “a necessity” to counter the violence in Afghanistan.
“Pakistan reserves the right to appropriately retaliate in future,” the Daily Times quoted Tariq as saying at a meeting with German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung who called on him at the Joint Staff Headquarters here last evening.
Kabul - An Afghan provincial governor for eastern Nuristan province died along with his two bodyguards when their car swerved off the road and plunged into a ravine en route to Kabul, a provincial official said Saturday.
Governor Hazrat-ul-din Noor, 50, was on his way from the capital of Nuristan for a meeting in Kabul city scheduled on Saturday when the accident took place in Sarobi, some 50 kilometres east of the capital city, Haleem Nuristani, deputy provincial governor said.
Noor, who served as a mujahideen commander against the Soviet invasion in 1980s, replaced Tamim Nuristani in July as governor for the province, which is located close to the border with Pakistan.
Kabul - An earthquake shook the Afghan capital and other cities in northern parts of the country Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
According to the US Geological Survey, the quake's magnitude was 5.6 and the epicentre was at a depth of 177 kilometres.
The quake hit the Hindu Kush mountainous region, about 275 kilometres north of Kabul and 66 kilometres from Faizabad, the capital city for northern Badakhshan province, the survey said in its website.
Kabul- A US military raid in western Afghanistan left two civilians and eight militants dead, while coalition forces killed several militants and detained 11 others elsewhere in the country, officials said Friday.
Afghan and US military forces raided a house in Bakwa district of the western province of Farah on Thursday night, sparking a four-hour gunbattle that killed eight Taliban militants and two civilians, Gholam Farouq Nahimi, an army commander in western region, said.
Kabul - Afghan and coalition forces killed at least two dozen Taliban in clashes and airstrike in eastern and southern regions, officials claimed Sunday.
New Delhi, Sept. 7 A 5.6-magnitude earthquake jolted parts of India, Afghanistan and Pakistan on Saturday.
Kabul - An earthquake shook the Afghan capital and other cities in northern parts of the country Saturday, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
Kabul- A US military raid in western Afghanistan left two civilians and eight militants dead, while coalition forces killed several militants and detained 11 others elsewhere in the country, officials said Friday.
