Tag: Soldiers

A roadside bomb killed four service members from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan’s volatile east on Monday, the coalition said...

Just a day after the US and Pakistan agreed to jointly act against terrorists operating from inside the Pakistani territory, the NATO breached the...

Pakistani and Indian troops exchanged sustained cross-border fire on Sunday, security officials said, a day after an Indian soldier was killed by Pakistani troops...

Suspected Al-Qaeda rebels ambushed an army vehicle and killed five soldiers near the Yemeni town of Marib, east of the capital Sanaa, on Friday,...

Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan – two organisations banned by the Pakistani government in 2001 on charges of fomenting sectarianism and killing in the...

LONDON - Prince Harry has worked hard to shake off his wildchild image -- and his newfound maturity will be tested to the limit when he acts as best man at his brother Prince William's wedding. After highly-publicised indiscretions, William's younger brother now takes his responsibilities seriously and became the first royal in more than 25 years to serve in a war zone.
Third in line to the throne, 26-year-old Harry has a difficult path to tread. Though William is on course to

KHAR - Pakistani officials said Friday that 50 militants and four soldiers had been killed in a district where the United States this week criticised the army's efforts to defeat insurgents.
The deaths, which could not be verified independently, were reported in Mohmand, tribal belt on the Afghan border singled out for criticism in a White House report flatly rejected by Islamabad.
Local administration official Maqsood Hassan told AFP that militants attacked a security force

SANAA - Yemeni soldiers who have sided with anti-regime protesters intervened on Monday to prevent police from taking on thousands of demonstrators camped at a square in central Sanaa, an AFP correspondent said.

MAZAR-I-SHARIF - An Afghan border policeman shot dead two foreign soldiers on a training mission in north Afghanistan on Monday, a senior official said, the latest in a series of apparent "rogue" attacks by Afghan security forces on their mentors.
Abdul Sattar Bariz, deputy governor of northern Faryab province, said two American soldiers were killed at a checkpoint by a member of the Afghan Border Police.
"He killed the two trainers while they were teaching them, in Faryab

SANAA - At least five people were killed after police fired on protesters in the Yemeni city of Taiz, south of the capital, on Monday, a medical source said.
In the port city of Hudaida, armed men in civilian clothes opened fire on protesters, witnesses said. There was no immediate word on casualties there.

KABUL - Continued militancy and skirmishes have claimed the lives of more than 100 soldiers with NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the first quarter of the current year.
Since the beginning 2011, according to iCasalties, a website tracking the casualties of NATO-led forces in war on terror in Afghanistan, 103 soldiers with majority of them Americans have been killed in the post-Taliban country, a Chinese news agency reported.
The fatalities of

PESHAWAR - Friendly fire killed the 13 Pakistani soldiers whose deaths were initially blamed on Islamist militants in the Taliban-infested tribal belt on the Afghan border, a commander said Tuesday.
Security officials at first had said that 14 soldiers were killed during fighting on Monday in the Shindhand area of Khyber Agency. But northwest military commander Lieutenant General Asif Yasin Malik told reporters on Tuesday that 13 soldiers died due to mortar fire called in by the

PESHAWAR - Thirteen members of the Pakistani Frontier Corps, including a colonel, were killed in an apparent friendly fire incident in a northwestern region infested with al Qaeda and Taliban-linked militants, a top military commander said.
The deaths occurred late on Monday during an anti-militant operation by the paramilitary Frontier Corps in Khyber, an ethnic Pashtun tribal region near the Afghan border.
Lieutenant-General Asif Yasin Malik, the seniormost officer in the

BUJUMBURA - At least 43 Burundian soldiers have been killed and 110 have been wounded since the start of a Somali government-African Union offensive against insurgents on February 23, military sources said.
"The official toll given so far is totally false," a military source in Mogadishu who requested anonymity told AFP.
"In reality, 43 soldiers of the Burundi contingent ... have been killed, another four are missing and 110 were wounded during the last joint offensive ...

KABUL - Four NATO soldiers were killed on Monday in a wave of insurgent attacks across Afghanistan, the international force said. Three of the soldiers died in separate improvised bomb blasts in the west, south and east of Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.
An Afghan government spokesman in the western city of Herat said that the soldier who died in the province was Italian and that three other Italian soldiers were wounded in the same blast.

ADEN - Gunmen killed two soldiers in the southern Yemen town of Zinjibar on Monday in separate shootings which a local official blamed on Al Qaeda.
The attacks came in different neighbourhoods of Zinjibar, the capital of restive Abyan province, the official said on condition of anonymity. "They bear the hallmark of Al Qaeda, which often attacks soldiers," he added.
A hospital source confirmed the deaths of the two soldiers.
Militants of Al Qaeda have been increasingly

PESHAWAR - Unidentified armed men attacked a security check post in a remotest bordering area in Landi Kotal Tehsil, killing 5 soldiers of Khasadar Force and local tribal levies and wounding 2 others, security officials said Thursday.
The suspected militants have carried a well-coordinated armed attack on a security check point of Khasadar Force in Prang Sang a far-flung area in Landi Kotal Tehsil at 4 kilometers distance from the Afghan border late night between Wednesday and