Kabul- Three army soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, while 12 Taliban militants including two rebel commanders were killed in separate clashes, the military said Sunday.
Four other Afghan soldiers were wounded Saturday when their vehicle was blown up by a remote-controlled roadside bomb in Zurmat district of south-eastern province of Paktia, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.
Kabul - Two dozen Taliban militants were killed in three separate clashes with Afghan and US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan's volatile south, officials said Saturday.
US-led coalition forces claimed that their troops, backed by Afghan forces, killed 12 militants in a night-time raid in Nahr Surkh district of southern Helmand province, some 125 kilometres west of Kandahar city, the US military said in a statement.
Kabul - US-led coalition forces reported on Saturday that their troops, backed by Afghan forces, killed 12 militants in a night-time raid in southern Afghanistan.
The militants were killed on Friday during an attack by the combined forces on their hideout in Nahr Surkh district of southern Helmand province, some 125 kilometres west of Kandahar city, the US military said in a statement.
Kabul - Some Afghan insurgent leaders who are not part of the al-Qaeda network should be removed from a United Nations blacklist so as to boost reconciliation efforts with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday.
Speaking to reporters in a press conference at his presidential palace, Karzai also said that his government and the international community must seek the assistance of some Islamic countries in order to accelerate the peace process with the militants.
Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomed the new strategy unveiled by US President Barack Obama on Friday and said the chances for success were greater, because the plan has recognized that the war on terrorism was a regional problem.
"The Afghan government welcomes the new US strategy, because it has taken into consideration the Afghan government's ideas and its demand that the terrorism is a regional problem," Karzai said in a statement issued by his office.
Kabul - Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing nine police officers and seized their weapons, police officials said.
The militants tossed hand grenades at the police post in Gerishk district of the southern Helmand province Thursday morning before shooting the policemen inside the post, said Kamaludin Khan, the deputy provincial police chief.
Kabul- Three army soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, while 12 Taliban militants including two rebel commanders were killed in separate clashes, the military said Sunday.
Kabul - Two dozen Taliban militants were killed in three separate clashes with Afghan and US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan's volatile south, officials said Saturday.
Kabul - US-led coalition forces reported on Saturday that their troops, backed by Afghan forces, killed 12 militants in a night-time raid in southern Afghanistan.
Kabul - Some Afghan insurgent leaders who are not part of the al-Qaeda network should be removed from a United Nations blacklist so as to boost reconciliation efforts with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday.
Kabul - Afghan President Hamid Karzai welcomed the new strategy unveiled by US President Barack Obama on Friday and said the chances for success were greater, because the plan has recognized that the war on terrorism was a regional problem.
Kabul - Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing nine police officers and seized their weapons, police officials said.
