Kabul, Sept. 4 : The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) rejected on Thursday recent media reports that the ISAF conducted operations in Pakistan.
Describing the reports as "completely false", an ISAF spokesman said in a statement: "The ISAF mission is to assist Afghanistan in providing a secure and stable environment to help Afghans rebuild their country and ISAF only operates in Afghanistan."
Kandahar (Afghanistan), Sept. 4 : Three soldiers were killed and five others injured five, when Canadian troops came under direct fire from insurgents here on Wednesday.
Military officials are still investigating how Corporal Andrew Grenon, 23, Cpl. Mike Seggie, 21, and Private Chad Horn, 21, were killed Wednesday as they patrolled the western part of Kandahar city.
Islamabad, Sept. 4 : The Pakistani Taliban has said they would not kill the two Chinese engineers and two Pakistanis they have been holding since last week, but they would not release them unless their unspecified demands were met.
The four were kidnapped near the Afghan border last Friday as they were returning to a guesthouse after repairing a telecommunications tower.
A Taliban spokesman said the outfit is awaiting an approach from the government on the matter.
Islamabad, Sept. 4 : Pakistan''s Senate today adopted a unanimous resolution strongly condemning an attack by Afghanistan-based US-led NATO forces on a Pakistani border region killing 20 civilians.
The resolution mentioned that the raid undermined the basic norms of international law.
Kabul - Three Canadian soldiers under NATO command were killed and five wounded in a fight with Taliban insurgents in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, officials said Thursday.
The soldiers' armoured vehicle was attacked Wednesday while they were conducting a security patrol in the Zherai district, the Canadian Defence Ministry said.
The latest deaths bring to 96 the number of Canadian soldiers killed in Afghanistan since the ouster of the Islamic fundamentalist Taliban regime and the forces' deployment to the insurgency-plagued country in 2002.
Kabul - In the most recent clashes in volatile southern Afghanistan at least 36 Taliban militants were killed, officials said Wednesday.
A group of Taliban militants attacked a convoy of Afghan and US-led coalition forces in Faizabad area of Nawbahar in southern Zabul province on Tuesday, sparking a three-hour gun battle in the area, Ghulom Jailani Farahi, provincial security chief, said.
The combined forces called in air support and as a result 21 Taliban militants were killed, he said, adding that no Afghan or coalition soldiers were killed or wounded in the firefight.
Kabul, Sept. 4 : The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) rejected on Thursday recent media reports that the ISAF conducted operations in Pakistan.
Kandahar (Afghanistan), Sept. 4 : Three soldiers were killed and five others injured five, when Canadian troops came under direct fire from insurgents here on Wednesday.
Islamabad, Sept. 4 : The Pakistani Taliban has said they would not kill the two Chinese engineers and two Pakistanis they have been holding since last week, but they would not release them unless their unspecified demands were met.
Islamabad, Sept. 4 : Pakistan''s Senate today adopted a unanimous resolution strongly condemning an attack by Afghanistan-based US-led NATO forces on a Pakistani border region killing 20 civilians.
Kabul - Three Canadian soldiers under NATO command were killed and five wounded in a fight with Taliban insurgents in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, officials said Thursday.
Kabul - In the most recent clashes in volatile southern Afghanistan at least 36 Taliban militants were killed, officials said Wednesday.
