Tag: Soldiers

Four soldiers killed by NATO mortars

At least four security personnel were killed and several others injured on Tuesday when a checkpost near the Pak-Afghan border was hit by mortar...

IED explosion kills 3 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan

Three soldiers with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed as an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) went off in eastern Afghanistan region...

20 Turkish soldiers, Kurdish rebels killed in clash

Kurdish fighters killed 13 Turkish soldiers and seven militants died Thursday in the worst clash since the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) ended a ceasefire...

Afghan official kills two NATO soldiers

An agent from Afghanistan's intelligence unit opened fire at a foreign base on Saturday, killing two soldiers from the NATO-led coalition and wounding a...

Dead soldiers’ relatives ‘hacked’ as British scandal deepens

Britain's tabloid scandal deepened Thursday after families of dead soldiers reportedly had their phones hacked, with Prime Minister David Cameron facing growing questions over...

‘Qaeda’ ambush kills 10 Yemeni soldiers: military

Suspected Al-Qaeda militants killed 10 soldiers when they ambushed them on a road in southern Yemen, where the jihadist network has a stronghold, a...

Attacks kill four NATO soldiers in Afghan east

Four NATO soldiers were killed Tuesday in two attacks in eastern Afghanistan, where mostly US troops are battling a fierce Taliban insurgency close to...

Five Yemeni soldiers killed in clashes with Qaeda suspects

Five Yemeni soldiers were killed in fresh fighting Thursday with alleged Al-Qaeda militants in the restive southern city of Zinjibar, a military official told...

12 al Qaeda militants, 2 Yemen soldiers killed

Twelve suspected members of an Al-Qaeda-linked group and two Yemeni soldiers were killed in clashes near the gunmen-held southern city Zinjibar, an army officer...

Five Iraqi soldiers killed in shootings

Five Iraqi soldiers were killed on Wednesday in a spate of shootings against patrols and checkpoints in Baghdad and the main northern city of...

Bomb kills three soldiers in South Waziristan

A roadside bomb killed at least three soldiers and wounded three others on Monday in the Waziristan tribal area bordering Afghanistan, security officials said. The...

Eight soldiers killed, 12 injured in North Waziristan clash

Around 150 militants armed with rockets attacked a security checkpost in Pakistan's Waziristan on Thursday, killing eight soldiers, intelligence officials said, as tensions rise...

Attacks kill five American soldiers, 20 Iraqi civilians

Attacks killed five American soldiers and 20 Iraqis on Monday, the deadliest day for US forces in Iraq in more than two years, just...

Afghan bomb kills four NATO soldiers

A bomb attack killed four foreign soldiers from NATO’s US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, the military said. “Four...

Four foreign soldiers killed in Afghan blast

Four foreign soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said. "Four International Security...

Two AU soldiers killed in Somalia attack

At least two soldiers from the African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia, AMISOM, were killed as they tried to prevent a suicide bomb attack...

Suspected Qaeda militants kill 6 soldiers in south Yemen

suspected Al-Qaeda militant killed two Yemeni soldiers in the southern city of Zinjibar on Monday, an army officer said, after four troops were...