Kabul, Nov 14: At least nine persons, including one US soldier and nine Afghan civilians, were killed Nangarhar province of Afghanistan, when a suicide car bomber struck a US military convoy.
Around 74 civilians were wounded in the attack, the Daily Times quoted a US military spokesman as saying.
In a separate incident, two British troops were killed on Wednesday in an explosion in Helmand province’s Garmser district, said in a statement released by Britain’s Defence Ministry.
Kabul - A suicide car bomber targeted a military convoy of foreign forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar early Thursday morning, with multiple casualties feared among the foreign troops and civilians, officials said.
Police officials in this province, however, did not provide details about casualties of foreign forces. They said the attack took place Bati Kot district on the main road of Jalalabad Torkham.
Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the Nangarhar province governor's spokesman, said the attack was carried out by a suicide bomber.
Kabul - Six civilians were killed when a bomb-filled fuel tanker exploded close to the building where the brother of President Hamid Karzai was attending a meeting in the southern province of Kandahar on Wednesday, according to government sources.
The bomb injured 43 people, however, Ahmed Wali Karzai escaped uninjured when the tanker exploded near where he was attending a meeting at the office of the provincial council, the BBC reported.
Kabul - At least 35 militants including two rebel commanders were killed in separate clashes with Afghan and coalition forces, and 14 others were detained, officials said Saturday.
Two commanders were among 20 militants killed in a fight with Afghan ground forces and an airstrike by NATO forces in the Aab Band district of southern Ghazni province on Friday, Asmail Jahangir, spokesman for the provincial governor said.
Kabul - At least seven civilians and 13 Taliban insurgents were killed in a US airstrike in western Afghanistan, while ten more insurgents were killed in separate fights with US military forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Thursday.
The latest airstrike took place on Wednesday in Ghormach district of the western province of Badghis after a group of Taliban militants attacked US military troops in the area.
Kabul - A suicide car bomber targeted a military convoy of foreign forces in the eastern province of Nangarhar early Thursday morning, with multiple casualties feared among the foreign troops and civilians, officials said.
Kabul - Six civilians were killed when a bomb-filled fuel tanker exploded close to the building where the brother of President Hamid Karzai was attending a meeting in the southern province of Kandahar on Wednesday, according to government sources.
Kabul - At least seven civilians and 13 Taliban insurgents were killed in a US airstrike in western Afghanistan, while ten more insurgents were killed in separate fights with US military forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Thursday.
