Tag: Kabul

Kabul blames ‘foreign spy agencies’ for insider attacks

Afghan officials on Wednesday blamed “infiltration by foreign spy agencies” into the ranks of its security forces for a rise in attacks by Afghan...

‘Pakistan-linked’ attack on Kabul foiled: Afghanistan

Afghan and NATO forces foiled a series of suicide attacks on Kabul planned for Sunday when they captured five insurgents allegedly linked to militants...

‘Pakistan-linked’ attack on Kabul foiled: officials

Afghan and NATO forces foiled a series of suicide attacks on Kabul planned for Sunday when they captured five insurgents allegedly linked to militants...

‘Kabul more important for Pakistan than Washington’

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said on Saturday that Kabul was more important for Pakistan than Washington. In an interview to Arab TV channel, the...

Taliban bomb blast kills eight in Kabul: police

A Taliban bomb killed eight people and wounded five on Tuesday when it struck a minibus in Kabul, police said, amid growing unrest in...

Five dead as Kabul suicide attack foiled

Five insurgents planning a suicide attack in Kabul were killed in a pre-dawn gunbattle in the capital, an Afghan security official said Thursday. Fighting raged...

India wheats Afghan appetite

Keeping up with its commitments to Kabul, India is all set to send another 1.5 lakh tonnes of wheat to Afghanistan through Karachi port....

Kabul alleges more cross-border shelling from Pakistan

Scores of fresh artillery rounds fired from Pakistan hit parts of eastern Afghanistan on Sunday night and Monday, a local official said, according to...

Next stop: Tajikistan

Pakistan and Afghanistan on Thursday agreed to extend the scope of their transit trade agreement to include Tajikistan as part of the overall effort...

Ashraf in Kabul to meet Afghan, British leaders

Prime Minister Rajaz Pervez Ashraf was due to hold talks in Kabul on Thursday with President Hamid Karzai and British Prime Minister David Cameron,...

From Kabul to Istanbul: the rickshaw circus

A Canadian man and his German girlfriend are braving the Taliban to take a rickshaw on one of the world’s most dangerous road trips...

From Kabul to Istanbul: the rickshaw circus

A Canadian man and his German girlfriend are braving the Taliban to take a rickshaw on one of the world's most dangerous road trips...

Six US troops killed in Afghan bomb attack

Six American soldiers serving with NATO forces were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan on Sunday, the alliance’s military in Kabul and an...

‘France to guard Kabul hospital, airport until 2014’

The French military will guard Kabul’s military hospital and the city’s international airport until 2014, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said Sunday. France is...

Kabul faces pressure on graft at Tokyo aid meet

Ahead of the exit of foreign combat troops, Afghanistan faces pressure to tackle pervasive corruption as it seeks billions in new aid at an...

Pakistan Army playing double game on Afghanistan: report

Slamming Pakistan for refusing to cut ties with the militant Haqqani network, leading US daily New York Times said the military of the ‘crippled...

Man in Afghan police uniform kills three NATO personnel

A man in an Afghan police uniform has gunned down three NATO personnel in the war-torn country’s troubled south, the coalition said on Sunday,...