Kabul - A provincial governor in south-eastern Afghanistan said Thursday that US-led international troops killed five civilians including two women and a 7-day-old child and wounded two other women in an operation against suspected militants.
The coalition troops conducted an operation in a village near Khost city, the capital of the province of the same name Wednesday night "after they claimed that they were attacked by small arms fire," Hamidullah Qalandarzai, the provincial governor, told the German Press Agency dpa.
Kabul - A suicide bomber attacked a counternarcotics police unit in southern Afghanistan Thursday, killing five officers and wounding two, a police official said.
The attack, carried out by a bomber wearing a suicide vest, took place in Lashkargah, the capital of Helmand province, when counternarcotics police were embarking on a mission, deputy provincial police chief Kamaluddin Khan said.
"The bomber jumped in front of the convoy that was leaving the station," Khan said.
Kabul - A NATO soldier was killed Wednesday in an attack in the southern region of Afghanistan, where a roadside bomb explosion wounded six civilians, officials said.
The soldier, whose nationality was not revealed by the alliance, was killed in a "hostile incident" in the southern region, the International Security Assistance Force said in a statement.
Kabul - Polish President Lech Kaczynski Wednesday announced plans to send hundreds of extra troops to war-torn Afghanistan in the coming months, following a meeting with his Afghan counterpart President Hamid Karzai in Kabul.
Kaczynski arrived in Afghanistan on a one-day trip to talk with Afghan government officials and visit his Polish troops stationed in volatile southern province of Ghazni. About 1,600 Polish soldiers are stationed in Afghanistan.
Kabul - Two NATO-led soldiers were killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, while eight Taliban militants were killed by Afghan and US-led coalition forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Tuesday.
In the latest attack, a NATO soldier was killed and three were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in the southern region on Tuesday, the alliance said in a statement.
Kabul - A provincial governor in south-eastern Afghanistan said Thursday that US-led international troops killed five civilians including two women and a 7-day-old child and wounded two other women in an operation against suspected militants.
Kabul - A suicide bomber attacked a counternarcotics police unit in southern Afghanistan Thursday, killing five officers and wounding two, a police official said.
Kabul - A NATO soldier was killed Wednesday in an attack in the southern region of Afghanistan, where a roadside bomb explosion wounded six civilians, officials said.
Kabul - Polish President Lech Kaczynski Wednesday announced plans to send hundreds of extra troops to war-torn Afghanistan in the coming months, following a meeting with his Afghan counterpart President Hamid Karzai in Kabul.
Kabul - Two NATO-led soldiers were killed in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, while eight Taliban militants were killed by Afghan and US-led coalition forces elsewhere in the country, officials said Tuesday.
