Tag Archives: Afghanistan



Afghanistan

Britain will withdraw 3,800 troops by the end of 2013. An Afghan policeman killed four of his fellow officers in an insider attack in Kandahar. A US Defense Department report says since the adoption of measures to prevent insider attacks, 90 percent of operations in Afghanistan have returned to normal.



Afghanistan

Security forces killed a Taliban commander in Herat. Nuristan’s chief of police accused the Pakistani military of attacking police centers in conjunction with the Taliban.



Afghanistan

A Taliban suicide bomber killed one person in an attack on a US contractors base in Kabul. Ten Afghan girls were killed in a landmine blast in Nangarhar.






Afghanistan

Security forces captured a Taliban facilitator involved in the Dec. 2 attack on the US airbase in Jalalabad. The Afghan military claimed that 23 Taliban fighters were killed during operations over the past two days.





Afghanistan

President Karzai said US and NATO troops should withdraw from Afghan villages as soon as possible. Security forces detained three Taliban commanders and 50 fighters in Nangarhar, and a senior Taliban commander and several fighters in Sar-i-Pul.



Afghanistan

As year ends, US commanders are offering glowing assessments of war progress in Afghanistan











Afghanistan

Security forces killed a Taliban commander and several fighters in Baghlan, and detained six suicide bombers, including three Pakistanis, in Paktika. President Karzai said the suicide attack that wounded the NDS chief was plotted in Quetta, and the government will provide evidence to prove it.