Suspected fighters have launched a rocket and ground attack on Nato’s main military base in southern Afghanistan, days after a similar assault on the coalition’s military base in Bagram.
Nato officials said the fighters fired a number of rockets and mortars at the Kandahar Air Field on Saturday, wounding an unspecified number of Nato troops.
“Kandahar Air [...]
At least seven Taliban fighters have been killed and nine Nato troops wounded in an assault on Bagram air base in Afghanistan, Nato says.
Nato’s International Security Assistance Force, or Isaf, said on Wednesday: “Seven insugents have been killed… during the attack on Bagram that included rockets, small arms and grenades.”
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the [...]
At least 12 people have been killed and another 47 wounded in a suicide car-bomb attack targeting a Nato convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police say.
The attack took place on Tuesday close to an army-recruitment centre, the parliament and other government buildings in Kabul.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blast, one of the deadliest [...]
A passenger plane carrying 42 people on an internal flight between Kabul and Kunduz has gone missing over a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan.
The Pamir Airways flight, which also had 34 passengers and six crew members on board, disappeared on Monday.
It apparently crashed in remote mountains between the two cities.
The Russian made AN-24 aircraft took [...]
Barack Obama, the US president, has said ties with Afghanistan remain strong and backed the Afghan government’s efforts to engage with Taliban fighters who give up violence.
Speaking at a joint news conference with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, at the White House, Obama said he supported Kabul’s efforts to “open the door to Taliban, who [...]
Hillary Clinton, the US secretary of state, has assured Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, that the US will remain committed to his country’s security and reconstruction even after American troops have departed.
“We will not abandon the Afghan people. Our civilian commitment will remain long into the future,” Clinton said on Tuesday, as she kicked off [...]
At least eight attempted suicide bombers have been killed during a gun battle with police in southwestern Afghanistan, the interior ministry said.
Ministry officials said at least two Afghan policemen were also killed and five others wounded before the fighting ended in Nimroz province on Wednesday.
One witness said a female council member was also killed in [...]
Two women and a girl have been killed and two men injured after Nato troops opened fire on a car in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
Afghanistan’s interior ministry said that the victims were travelling on a highway in Zabul province on Friday when foreign troops opened fire, killing three of the five civilians in [...]
The United Nations has temporarily shut its office in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar due to security concerns.
Al Jazeera has learned that the UN made the move on Tuesday in response to a specific threat issued by the Taliban, although a UN spokesman said it was because of a deteriorating security situation.
The UN has [...]
At least 13 girls have fallen ill after a suspected poisonous gas attack at a school in northern Afghanistan.
The government has accused fighters opposed to female education of being behind the attack.
Sunday’s incident – the third in Kunduz province – brings to 80 the number of school girls reporting symptoms such as headaches, vomiting and [...]