Topic: Nangarhar Province

Bomb kills four Afghan children: officials

Four Afghan children were killed on Friday when a bomb exploded as they played near their home in the warring country's troubled east, which borders Pakistan, officials said.The blast in Nangarhar province is the latest reminder of the high death ...

Air strike kills 27 Afghan insurgents: NATO

A NATO air strike killed 27 insurgents in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday after they opened fire on an international military patrol, officials said.The attack came in Nangarhar province, close to the border with Pakistan where insurgents have hideouts and many of the ...

Afghan official: 9 killed in wedding party attack

0 . The Afghan government says gunmen have killed nine people in a nighttime attack on a wedding party in eastern Afghanistan.. . The spokesman for...

Eighteen dead in Taliban attack on Afghan bank

Eighteen people were killed and over 70 others were wounded, including police chiefs, Saturday in a Taliban attack on a bank in Jalalabad, eastern Afghanistan.Police collecting their salaries were among the casualties including Alishah Paktyamwal, police chief of Nangarhar province where ...

Kidnapped Afghan demining team members released

KABUL (Reuters) - Seven members of an Afghan demining team kidnapped by Taliban insurgents in the volatile east of the country have been released two days after they were seized, police said on Saturday.The seven kidnapped deminers were freed on Friday, said ...
Six NATO service members were killed Monday by a turncoat Afghan Border Police officer.. . The deadly shooting happened during a training mission...

Bomb kills Afghan district governor: police

Khorsheed, the governor of Dur Baba in Nangarhar province, was driving to work when the improvised-explosive device often used in insurgent attacks blew up his vehicle, said police spokesman Colonel Abdul Ghafour.Like many Afghans, the official had only one name."The ...

Thousands of Afghans protest Koran burning plans

In far northeastern Badakhshan province, thousands of people gathered outside a small NATO base in the capital Fayzabad, where they threw rocks at the gate and burned an American flag, police said.Eight people were injured in what was the third and ...

NATO strike kills 'at least 12 civilians'

A NATO strike in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar killed at least 12 civilians, an official told AFP, as President Hamid Karzai ordered a probe into the incident."Coalition forces had an operation last night. In one place, Nakrkhail village, they ...
A NATO strike in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar killed at least 12 civilians, an official told AFP, as President Hamid Karzai ordered a probe into the incident."Coalition forces had an operation last night. In one place, Nakrkhail village, they ...