Afghanistan

Pakistan protests to ISAF over attack on border post

Islamabad - Pakistan has lodged a strong protest with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) over a mortar attack from Afghanistan on one of its border military posts, an army spokesma

Taliban insurgents' simultaneously attack Afghan, Pakistani targets

Taliban insurgents' simultaneously attack Afghan, Pakistani targets

Mortar fire from Afghanistan injures 10 in Pakistan

Islamabad - Eight soldiers and two civilians were injured overnight when mortar fire from Afghanistan hit a Pakistani border post in the country's restive tribal area, officials said Friday.

ISAF soldier, insurgent leaders killed in Afghanistan

Kabul - Two soldiers of the NATO-led international forces were killed and one was wounded in Paktika province, while several key members of the insurgency were killed in Kandahar province, official

`You kill 20,000 Taliban, another 20,000 will follow’

afghanistanKabul, July 10 : Seven years after the eradication of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, one would have thought that the fight would have gone out of the Islamic fundamentalists, but if you ask those confronting this group in war-ravaged Afghanistan, he or she will just say: “You kill 20,000 Taliban, another 20,000 will follow”.

That in effect, sums up the resurgence of rabid Islamism.

For ordinary Kabulites, life pretty much goes on normally. The international community has colonised the Afghan capital, but that does not take away the growing fear among locals that a terror strike is just seconds or hours away.

50 percent of all British servicemen want to quit

London, July 10 : Britain''s campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan could face problems after it emerged that almost half of all military personnel are ready to quit.

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