Tag: Kabul
Pakistan condemns terrorist attack in diplomatic area of Kabul
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has strongly condemned the suicide bomb attack that struck the diplomatic area of Kabul on Tuesday.
“We are grieved at the loss of precious lives in...
Kabul seeks help from Islamabad to locate missing deputy governor
ISLAMABAD: The Afghan embassy in Islamabad has contacted the Pakistan’s Foreign Office and sought help to locate the missing deputy governor of Kunar province.
The Afghan embassy also...
Death toll rises to 72 in Kabul mosque attack
KABUL: Suicide bombers attacked two mosques in Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 72 people including children, officials and witnesses said.
One bomber walked into...
Suicide bomber blows up near Shia mosque in Kabul, kills 6
KABUL: A suicide bomber posing as a shepherd blew himself up near a Shia mosque in Kabul on Friday killing at least six people, police...
Six rockets land near Kabul airport after Mattis arrives in Afghan...
Six rockets landed near Kabul's international airport on Wednesday shortly after US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis arrived in the Afghan capital for talks, an...
At least 74 dead, including Iranians, in Iraq attacks claimed by...
NASIRIYAH: Gunmen and suicide car bombers on Thursday killed at least 74 people, including Iranians, here near the southern Iraqi city, in an attack...
Iraq holding 1,400 foreign wives, children of suspected Daesh fighters
SOUTH OF MOSUL, IRAQ: Iraqi authorities are holding 1,400 foreign wives and children of suspected Daesh fighters after government forces expelled the group from...
Nancy Hatch Dupree ‘Grandmother of Afghanistan’ dies in Kabul
KABUL: Nancy Hatch Dupree, a historian from the United States who helped set up the Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University, has died in the...
US air strike kills 13 civilians: Afghan officials
KABUL: Thirteen civilians from the same family were killed and another 15 wounded in a US air strike on Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan...
Air strike kills 11 Afghan civilians, says local official
At least 11 Afghan civilians were killed and 16 wounded on Wednesday when a NATO helicopter attacked a house where Taliban insurgents had taken...
13 people killed, many injured by car bomb explosion in Afghanistan
KABUL: As many as 13 people, including both Afghan army soldiers and civilians, were killed and 18 wounded by a car bomb in the southern...
80 killed, 350 injured in massive blast in Kabul diplomatic quarter
At least 80 people were killed and over 350 wounded Wednesday when a massive truck bomb ripped through Kabul’s diplomatic quarter, shattering the morning...
At least 20 killed in suicide blast at Afghan Supreme Court
A suicide bomber on foot ripped through a crowd of Afghan Supreme Court employees Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding 41 others...
Afghan police officer kills 8 colleagues
An Afghan policeman turned his rifle on his colleagues in a northern province, killing eight, while a gunman in the country’s east fatally shot...
Large protest held outside Pakistan embassy in Kabul
Dozens of supporters for ex-Afghan intelligence chief Amrullah Saleh on Friday staged a protest demonstration outside the Pakistani embassy in Kabul, and chanted anti-Pakistan...
Explosion in Kabul causes some casualties: Police
A bomb attack targeted a member of Afghanistan’s parliament in the capital, Kabul, on Wednesday, wounding him and several other people, officials said.
Fakori Behishti,...
US, India to align interests with Kabul
The United States, Afghanistan and India have agreed to align their assistance with the priorities to help the government in Kabul, said an official...
