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EDINBURGH, Nov 17 (Reuters) – NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday the alliance’s mission in Afghanistan would soon gain momentum, in remarks seeking to allay doubts about the operation.
QUETTA, Pakistan — Suspected Taliban militants on Friday torched five trucks carrying fuel from Pakistan to NATO forces in neighbouring Afghanistan, killing a driver, police said. The attack took place at Bolan pass, some 70 kilometres (40 miles) south of Quetta, the capital of oil and gas-rich Baluchistan province bordering Iran and Afghanistan, where both [...]
LONDON (Reuters) – NATO’s secretary-general said on Wednesday he expected alliance members to provide more resources for training Afghan troops and police, but would not comment on exact troop numbers.
KABUL – International troops and Afghan police seized 250 tons of ammonium nitrate fertilizer — enough to make up to a couple hundred roadside bombs, the Taliban’s most lethal weapon in what has been the deadliest year of the war, NATO announced Tuesday.
HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) – More than 25 NATO and Afghan troops were wounded during a search Friday for two missing U.S. paratroopers in western Afghanistan, the NATO-led force said.
BERLIN (Reuters) – German troops made mistakes but acted appropriately when they ordered an air strike on two fuel trucks in Afghanistan that killed dozens of civilians, Defence Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg said on Friday.
A bomb blast killed two American soldiers serving under Nato in southern Afghanistan, NATO’S International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Friday.
MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (AFP) – Suspected US missiles killed five militants in Pakistan’s Al-Qaeda-infested tribal belt on Thursday, not far from where 30,000 troops are battling a major offensive against homegrown Taliban.
Nato’s strategy in Afghanistan is increasing the likelihood of terrorist attacks in Britain, a Tory MP has claimed. Adam Holloway, a former Grenadier Guard, called for a new focus on reconciliation with Afghan insurgents rather than more intense fighting. via Metro.co.uk.
Suspected Taliban militants set off a roadside bomb that killed seven paramilitary soldiers today in a rugged tribal region of northwestern Pakistan, after the nation’s president vowed to push on with an army offensive in a key insurgent stronghold until all the militants are wiped out. The soldiers were traveling through the Khyber region, famed [...]
