Islamabad, Sept 3 : An important terrorist target in a remote part of Pakistan situated along the Afghanistan border may have been hit in the early morning attack today by the US-led NATO forces, believe top Pakistan security officials. They are searching for clues to confirm whether the “terror target” was hit in the attack, in which at least
15 people were reportedly killed.
Sydney - Nine Australian soldiers were injured in a clash with Taliban fighters in the southern Afghan province of Oruzgan, an Australian Defence Force spokesman said Wednesday.
Kunduz, Afghanistan - With German troops tense about the growing risk of Taliban attacks, German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung landed Tuesday in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit.
Jung met with a tribal leader near Kunduz and conveyed Germany's condolences over the shooting deaths of an Afghan woman and two children.
They were killed last Thursday evening when German troops at a roadblock opened fire on a car when it ignored an order to stop.
"I expressed our shock and our sympathy," said Jung after the meeting with Haji Amanullah Otmansai, a Pashtun leader.
Kabul - The US-led coalition said on Tuesday that its investigation into allegations of heavy civilian casualties during an air raid in western Afghanistan on August 22 had found that 30-35 militants and up to seven civilians were killed in the attack.
The finding contradicts an investigation by an Afghan government team, which said that 90 civilians, including 60 children, were killed in the US military airstrike in Azizabad village in Shindand district of Herat province.
Kabul - Six people, including two civilians, were killed in roadside bomb attacks and a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
Two policemen were killed and four others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in the south-eastern province of Khost on Tuesday morning, said Wazir Padshah, spokesman for the provincial police chief.
He said a police patrol vehicle hit a mine in the Darouqa area of the provincial capital, also called Khost.
Kabul - Six people, including two civilians, were killed in roadside bomb attacks and a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
Two policemen were killed and four others wounded in a roadside bomb blast in the south-eastern province of Khost on Tuesday morning, said Wazir Padshah, spokesman for the provincial police chief.
He said a police patrol vehicle hit a mine in the Darouqa area of the provincial capital, also called Khost.
Another roadside bomb in Spin Boldak district of southern Kandahar province on Tuesday killed a road construction worker and wounded another, Abdul Razek Khan, a police border commander, said.
Islamabad, Sept 3 : An important terrorist target in a remote part of Pakistan situated along the Afghanistan border may have been hit in the early morning attack today by the US-led NATO forces, believe top Pakistan security officials. They are searching for clues to confirm whether the “terror target” was hit in the attack, in which at least 
Kunduz, Afghanistan - With German troops tense about the growing risk of Taliban attacks, German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung landed Tuesday in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit.
Kabul - The US-led coalition said on Tuesday that its investigation into allegations of heavy civilian casualties during an air raid in western Afghanistan on August 22 had found that 30-35 militants and up to seven civilians were killed in the attack.
Kabul - Six people, including two civilians, were killed in roadside bomb attacks and a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday.
