Topic: Khost Province

Five Polish soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Taliban bombers killed five Polish soldiers in an attack on their convoy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the deadliest single loss for Warsaw's NATO contingent in the 10-year war."This is the most deadly attack in the history of Polish military missions ...

Afghan grenade attack wounds 20

Eighteen civilians and two policemen were wounded when a man threw grenades at a police vehicle in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, an official said.Grenade attacks are relatively uncommon in Afghanistan but it was the second time in less than 48 hours ...

Afghanistan launches probe into torture allegations

Afghanistan's intelligence agency said Sunday it had launched an investigation into allegations that its personnel had beaten an inmate nearly to death while interrogating him in the province of Khost.The probe ordered by the National Directorate of Security (NDS) follows ...

Taliban say Mullah Omar death report false, phone hacked

KABUL (Reuters) - Two Taliban spokesmen said their mobile phones had been hacked and false text messages sent out on Wednesday reporting the death of the movement's supreme leader Mullah Omar, who is still alive."This is the work of American intelligence ...

NATO to probe Afghan civilian death claims

NATO said Friday it would investigate Afghan claims that six civilians were killed during a military operation targeting the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani network.Provincial government officials said the six, one of them an 11-year-old girl, died during an operation on Thursday in the ...
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday ordered an investigation into provincial government claims that a NATO raid killed six civilians in the restive east.Government officials said the six, including an 11-year-old girl, died during a military operation targeting the Al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani ...

US looks to Pakistan border for Afghan endgame

The US-led military campaign in Afghanistan is shifting its focus from Taliban strongholds in the south to the Pakistani border, where troops will likely fight until 2014.With NATO forces on deadline to end their combat mission within three years, coalition leaders ...

US veteran fighting fit at 59 in Afghan war

Who says soldiering is a young man's game? Staff Sergeant Eric Ferguson joined the US army in 1973 and -- now approaching his 60th birthday -- he is still on active duty, leading distribution convoys through some of the most dangerous parts of ...

Bomber kills at least 4 in northwest Afghanistan

0 . Amid screams of "Suicide bomber! Suicide bomber!" an insurgent detonated his vest of explosives Saturday at a sports field in northwest ...

Afghanistan attacks leave 17 dead

0 . Attacks in four parts of the country left at least 17 people dead Friday, including two German soldiers, four Afghan police officers and 11 ...