Iran: Minister snubs Afghan summit in Italy (Adnkronos)
Iran: Minister snubs Afghan summit in Italy (AKI) – Iranian foreign minister Manouchehr Mottaki will not attend an international summit in Italy this week that will focus on Afghanistan and Pakistan, Iran’s ISNA student news agency reported on Wednesday. The Italian government had invited Iran to attend the meeting.”I have no plan to go,” ISNA quoted Mottaki telling journalists at the end of a …
Rising toll at mil. hospital in Afghan. (WAVY TV 10 Portsmouth)
BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AP) – The urgent call came in: Roadside bombs had ripped through two Humvees and wounded eight or nine U.S. soldiers. Medevac helicopters immediately hit the air to ferry the soldiers to the main U.S. military hospital.
Challenges ahead for Afghan vote, ICG says (UPI)
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 25 (UPI) — Declining security, weak politics and a lack of state institutions threaten the Afghan elections, but the vote is essential for progress, an analysis says.
Canada’s Afghan ‘model village’ praised by U.S. general (CBC.ca)
A four-star U.S. general in charge of American and NATO troops in Afghanistan praised Canada’s model village approach Thursday as key to winning the eight-year war.
NATO to start offensive soon in south Afghanistan (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, boosted by a big influx of U.S. troops, will step up operations in Helmand province and the city of Kandahar soon, the top regional commander said on Thursday.
Afghan police kill 4 militants in South (People’s Daily)
Four anti-government militants were killed and three others sustained injuries Wednesday as they came in contact with Afghan National Police (ANP) in Taliban’s former stronghold Kandahar city in southern Afghanistan, a statement of Interior Ministry issued said. “It occurred at around 10:45 a.m. local time (GMT0615) as police encountered a group of armed men who were busy in planting mines on a …
Soldiers, two dozen militants killed in Afghanistan (AFP via Yahoo! News)
Troops killed at least two dozen militants in the run up to August elections in Afghanistan as separate insurgent bomb attacks killed an Afghan and a NATO soldier, authorities said Thursday.
UK Forces Clear Afghanistan Taliban Stronghold – Officer (Nasdaq)
KABUL (AFP)–Forces conducting one of the U.K. military’s largest operations in Afghanistan have cleared a Taliban stronghold in the south and are encouraging villagers to return, an officer said Thursday.
8 Taliban insurgents killed in W Afghanistan (People’s Daily)
Afghan troops backed by the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) eliminated five Taliban insurgents including their commander in Afghanistan’ s northwestern province of Badghis on Wednesday, said Abdul Rauf Ahmadi, the police spokesperson in western region, on Thursday. “A joint cleanup operation was launched in Balamurghab district by Afghan National Army, police and ISAF, …
30 Taliban militants killed in Afghanistan (New Kerala)
Kabul, June 24 : Thirty Taliban militants were killed in clashes with NAvTO and Afghan forces in separate incidents in southern Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday.
Nine Taliban Militants Killed In Afghanistan – Official (Nasdaq)
KABUL (AFP)–Afghan and North Atlantic Treaty Organization-led security forces killed nine Taliban militants including their commander and a proxy district chief in a ground and air operation near the capital, an official said Thursday.
Afghan troops capture Taliban commander in west (People’s Daily)
Personnel of Afghan army, during a routine checking, arrested a Taliban key commander in Heart province, west of Afghanistan, spokesman of the army in the region Abdul Basir Ghori said Thursday. “Taliban key commander in the region Mawlawi Mohammad Sediq was driving towards Afghan army base in Shindand district Thursday morning to organize subversive activities when the troops identified and …
