At least six Afghan civilians have been killed in a US-led air strike, which included two helicopters and two fixed-wing aircrafts, a government spokesman says. The attack occurred in the Rostaq district of Takhar, a relatively peaceful province in the north, Reuters reported on Thursday. According to spokesman for the provincial governor Faiz Mohammad Tawhidi, [...]

Two American soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll of US troops killed in the Afghan war to 326 so far this year. According to NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), two US soldiers died following separate militant attacks, one in the east Afghanistan, and the other in the south on Thursday. [...]

The American death toll in Afghanistan this year has reached the highest annual rate since the start of the US-led invasion of the country nearly nine years ago. A total of 323 US soldiers have so far been killed in Afghanistan during 2010, compared to 317 in 2009, according to figures published by the independent [...]

A strike by US-led forces has claimed the lives of three Afghan civilians, including two women, and left three other civilians injured in the country’s restive south. In a statement released on Wednesday, NATO forces admitted to killing two women in their attack the day before on suspected Taliban militants in the Musa Qala district [...]

At least six more US-led soldiers have lost their lives in separate incidents in the troubled eastern and southern areas of Afghanistan. NATO issued a statement on Tuesday, announcing that four American soldiers were killed in a bombing attack in eastern parts of Afghanistan. In a separate incident, a fifth US soldier died in a [...]

Seven more American soldiers have been killed and several others injured in another deadly day for US troops in war-torn Afghanistan. The soldiers were slain in two separate bomb attacks in the country’s volatile south, NATO said in a statement. It said five troopers were killed in one of the attacks. The statement did not [...]

Separate Taliban attacks and bomb explosions have left six American soldiers dead in Afghanistan’s most volatile regions, NATO has reported. Three soldiers were killed while they were fighting insurgents in two separate battles in eastern parts of Afghanistan on Saturday, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement. Two other soldiers lost their [...]

Hundreds of Afghan people have held took to the streets in the eastern province of Ghazni to protest against the presence of private security firms in the country. Over 500 protesters condemned the killing of two Afghan civilians by mercenaries in the region, a Press TV correspondent reported on Saturday. The demonstrators also chanted anti-US [...]

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned US media reports alleging that senior members of the Afghan administration had been receiving secret payments from the CIA. The office of President Karzai issued a statement on Saturday, saying that such allegations were aimed at diverting public attention from the greater priorities of the Afghan war. “These reports [...]

Two US-run bases in eastern Afghanistan have been attacked by Taliban militants, Afghan officials say. Afghan officials said that at least 11 Taliban members were killed after the militants launched overnight attacks on the US-run sites, named the Forward Operating Base Salerno and nearby Camp Chapman, in Khost Province near the southeastern border with Pakistan, [...]

Police in Afghanistan have confirmed that the US-led warplanes are to blame for the killing of six Afghan children in the country’s volatile east. Police said on Friday that the children were collecting scrap metal in the mountain of eastern Kunar Province when a US-led plane dropped bombs on the area on Thursday. “In the [...]

NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has announced that three US soldiers have been killed in separate bomb attacks in eastern and southern Afghanistan. ISAF said in a Friday press release that two service members died as a result of an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) strikes in eastern Afghanistan. The alliance however did not announce [...]

Several Australian commandoes may be charged with the death of five children during a raid in Afghanistan’s southern province of Oruzgan, media reports say. The incident happened last year when the troops were sent on a ”capture or kill” mission targeting an insurgent leader in the province, the Sydney Morning Herald said on Friday. In [...]

Afghan president Hamid Karzai has said the US-led forces in his country have not made any progress in combating terrorism during the nine-year occupation. The Afghan leader linked the problem to two controversial issues, including the growing civilian casualties of the war. “The lack of progress in the war on terror has two factors; one [...]

A US-led airstrike has killed six children and injured another child in Kunar province in eastern Afghanistan, amid growing public discontent over civilian deaths. The children were killed on Thursday afternoon local time after US-led forces bombarded a civilian house, a local police chief said. The US-led forces launched the airstrike in response to Taliban [...]

Five US soldiers are charged with deliberately targeting Afghan civilians amid growing discontent over the rising civilian causalities in the war-torn country. The troopers allegedly killed three Afghans in Kandahar Province this year and they were charged with murder in June. Since then US army prosecutors have also filed additional charges of conspiracy to commit [...]

A media report says that an Afghan soldier killed two US-led soldiers in a shoot-out when they tried to remove an Afghan woman’s veil by force. An exchange of fire between two Spanish soldiers and an Afghan police trainee left all three killed in northwestern Afghanistan’s Badghis Province on Wednesday. Informed sources told the Pashtun [...]

US-led troops have reportedly opened fire at demonstrators in northern Afghanistan, killing dozens of people and wounding more than 20 other civilians. Thousands of people protested near a NATO base in Badghis province after NATO forces killed an Afghan police trainee, a Press TV correspondent reported. The Afghan trainee had fired on foreign troops, killing [...]

At least four US-led soldiers have been killed in separate incidents across Afghanistan amid a surge in militant attacks against foreign forces. The militants attacked a Hungarian convoy in the northwest near Mazar-e-Sharif overnight Monday. Hungary’s Defense Ministry has confirmed the attack and said it left one soldier dead and three others wounded. One of [...]

Two US-led troops have lost their lives in attacks in Afghanistan, bringing to 453 the total number of foreign troops to die in the country so far this year. NATO’s International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a Monday statement that the two soldiers, one of them an American, had died in separate bomb attacks [...]