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`Pak reluctant in taking action against safe havens`

Pakistan is reluctant to take a strong action against the terrorist safe havens inside the country w...

Angry Afghans chop off ears of bomb suspect

Police intervened to save the man`s life, but the furious residents had already cut off his ears.

Afghan official gunned down on way to mosque

Attackers gunned down a local government official on his way to a mosque in southern Afghanistan.

Afghan official gunned down on way to mosque

The Taliban have pressing a sweeping assassination campaign that has killed hundreds of local politi...

Terrorist attack foiled in Afghanistan

A terror attack has been thwarted in Afghanistan`s Helmand province, said the provincial government ...

Roadside bomb kills 19 in southern Afghanistan

The blast comes a day after twin bombings on Shiite Muslims celebrating the holiday of Ashoura left ...

Gunmen kill Afghan government prosecutor

The attackers shot Mohammad Azam, the chief prosecutor for Helmand province`s Gereshk district.

18 Afghan civilians die in Helmand blast

The latest deaths came a day after coordinated bomb and suicide attacks in the neighbouring province...

NATO admits 5 Afghan kids wounded in air strike

Helmand is the deadliest province for coalition forces fighting the nearly decade-long insurgency.

Afghan governor escapes Helmand ambush

Mohammad Gulab Mangal was returning to Lashkar Gah, capital of the southern province, after an offic...

Taliban stop cell phone signals in key Afghan province

Mobile phones are the primary means of communication in rural Afghan areas.

UK forces in Helmand `made mess of things`: WikiLeaks

Leaked memos reveal incompetence of UK troops to impose security in Helmand.

NATO soldier killed in Afghanistan

A NATO soldier has been killed in an attack by insurgents in Afghanistan, the military said Monday, ...

British troops to be shifted from Helmand

Under a new plan being drawn up by NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, Britis...

Clumsy Afghan suicide bomber blows himself up

A suicide-bomber in southern Afghanistan blew himself up while putting on a vest of explosives, an o...

‘Operation Moshtarak’ in Helmand

Helmand - Afghanistan’s largest province - in an earlier period had a flourishing rural economy base...

Afghan-NATO operation kills 32 Taliban: Helmand official

Thirty-two Taliban and three soldiers have been killed in an Afghan-NATO operation in Helmand prov...

Fighting breaks out in southern Afghan city

A security official says a gunbattle has broken out between militants wearing suicide vests and secu...

Four policemen killed at Afghan checkpoint

An official says four Afghan policemen have been killed in a volatile area in southern Afghanistan.

US to take lead role in southern Afghanistan: Report

The United States forces are to take over the main role in southern Afghanistan from the British in ...

Britain mulls `pullback from part of Afghan region`

Britain`s military may hand control of parts of Afghanistan`s Taliban-infested Helmand province to t...

US Marines, Afghan troops continue offensive in Helmand

US Marines and Afghan troops, conducting the first offensive since the new American war plan was ann...

9,000 Marines to Helmand after Obama speech: Report

The US military will deploy up to 9,000 Marines to Afghanistan`s Helmand province -- doubling US pre...

Afghans move toward reconciliation with Taliban

Once the national elections are behind them, local Afghan leaders will step up efforts to reconcil...

Roadside bomb kills 21 Afghan civilians: Officials

A roadside bomb hit civilians riding a tractor to a wedding in southern Afghanistan, killing at leas...

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