Tag: Troops

Seven soldiers from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed in a bomb attack in southern Afghanistan on Thursday. “Seven ISAF service members...

The US military said Wednesday that it has begun pulling some American troops out of Pakistan after Islamabad requested a smaller presence, amid tensions...

Corps Commander Lieutenant General Muhammad Zahir Ul Islam lauded the performance of troops in the exercises marking the culmination of summer collective training in...

Though the United States has yet to implement the decision of pulling its troops out of Afghanistan, its forces have vacated certain mountainous regions...

US Defence Chief Robert Gates has said it would be premature to speed up the pace of troops withdrawal from Afghanistan. In an interview...

A batch of 250 Pakistani troops Sunday left for Congo to perform peace keeping duties under the aegis of United Nations mission. Brigadier Humayun...

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki called for a dialogue on Wednesday with rival blocs to gauge whether or not US troops currently in Iraq...

President Barack Obama on Friday praised US Special Forces warriors who killed Osama bin Laden for a “job well done,” saying America had cut...

Syrian troops arrested 300 people in a Damascus suburb on Thursday even as they pulled back from the protest hub of Daraa after a...

Sudanese troops enter Abyei, 14 dead KADUGLI AFP A heavily armed Sudanese military convoy entered the flashpoint border district of Abyei, sparking...

LAHORE - Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hasan welcomed on Tuesday Army Chief Ashfaq Parvez Kayani's announcement of troops' withdrawal from Sui and Gwadar and termed it a step in the right direction. He said General Kayani's statement that the army would be withdrawn from Sui and Gwadar within two months and it would not take part in any operation in Balochistan in the future indicated the realization that issues could not be resolved by force and military operation, adding

KABUL - Two suicide attacks in two days which killed a police chief and five foreign troops in Afghanistan show the Taliban's ability to land heavy blows without even engaging in direct combat, experts say.
As spring brings warmer weather across the country, the traditional fighting season is getting under way, which Western officials say will provide a litmus test of their strategy in the near ten-year war following a US troop surge. But experts warn that Friday's killing of the

KABUL - A bomb killed three NATO soldiers in southern Afghanistan, the joint force said Sunday, bringing to eight the number of foreign troops killed in the country in the deadliest day since June last year.
On Saturday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said five of its troops had been killed in a suicide attack at an Afghan army base in the eastern province of Nangarhar, in which four Afghan soldiers also died.
On Sunday ISAF said three more of its

JALALABAD - A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an army uniform killed five foreign troops and four Afghan soldiers on Saturday in a brazen attack at the Afghan army's eastern headquarters. It was the deadliest single incident this year against foreign forces in war-torn Afghanistan and comes amid a wave of suicide attacks on security targets, three months before foreign forces start a limited pullback.
The latest strike was at an army base in the Gambiri desert area in Laghman

SRINAGAR - Ruling out reduction of troops in Kashmir, Indian Army Friday said the terror infrastructure was still intact on the other side of the Line of Control where militants were waiting to infiltrate into the Valley.
"The situation cannot be normal as the militant infrastructure and intent across the border is alive as also their over ground network in the Valley. In this scenario, we cannot reduce the army presence," General Officer Commanding of 15 Corps Lt Gen S A Hasnain

BEIRUT - Libyan government forces struck the coastal city of Misrata with dozens of Grad rockets on Thursday, killing eight people, a rebel spokesman said.
Misrata, Libya's third-biggest city, is the only major rebel stronghold in the west of the country. It has been the scene of major fighting between rebels and Gaddafi's forces for several weeks.
"They fired Grads at a residential area called Kasr Ahmad near the port this morning. They fired at least 80 rockets on that