Bombs kill three Nato troops, five AfghanBombs kill three Nato troops, five Afghan
KABUL: Roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan killed three Nato service members and five Afghans on Tuesday, officials said, clear evidence that the insurgents' annual spring offensive is underway. The service members died in southern Afghanistan, the US-led coalition in Afghanistan said in a brief statement that provided no other information. In another attack in the south of the country, a roadside bomb in the Shah Wali Kot district..
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Afghan Taliban's spring offensive from Sunday Afghan Taliban's spring offensive from Sunday
KABUL: Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan on Saturday announced the start of their annual "spring offensive" against the US-backed government, vowing a nationwide series of attacks as foreign troops withdraw. The extremists said that multiple suicide bombings, "insider attacks" by Afghan soldiers and "special military tactics" would target international airbases and diplomatic buildings to inflict maximum..
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Afghan bus crash kills 30, Taliban blamedAfghan bus crash kills 30, Taliban blamed
 KABUL: An official says a bus in southern Afghanistan has collided with the burning wreckage of a truck that was attacked by Taliban insurgents, killing 30 bus passengers. Omar Zawak, the governor’s spokesman in Helmand province, said the truck was set on fire by Taliban attackers and left burning in the middle of a road, and the bus could not stop in time to avoid smashing into it. The fiery crash happened about 55 kilometers..
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Nine killed in Afghanistan Earthquake Nine killed in Afghanistan Earthquake
AFGHANISTAN: As many nine people including children were killed and more than 100 injured when earthquake with magnitude 6.2 hit eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, officials said.  According to the Nagarhar provincial governor spokesman Ahmadzia Abdullzai, earthquake made structural damage at widespread. The tremors were felt across Pakistan, including Parachinar, Mohmand Agency, Shabqadar, Swat, Peshawar, Islamabad, Rawalpindi,..
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Sharp rise in civilian casualties in Afghanistan: UNSharp rise in civilian casualties in Afghanistan: UN
  KABUL: Civilian casualties in Afghanistan rose by almost 30 percent in the first three months of 2013, a UN envoy has said, describing a recent Taliban attack on court staff as a “war crime”. Jan Kubis, UN special representative for Afghanistan, said the “troubling”rise, compared to the same period last year, followed a 12 per cent drop in civilian casualties over the whole of 2012. He told a Nato ministerial..
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Gunmen kidnap nine Afghan deminers: officialsGunmen kidnap nine Afghan deminers: officials
KANDAHAR: Gunmen have kidnapped nine deminers in Afghanistan’s restive southern province of Kandahar, officials said Tuesday. The men, all Afghans, were being driven back from a minefield Monday when they were seized in Maiwand district, provincial spokesman Jawid Faisal told a foreign news agency. “They had just finished their work in the area and were riding in two cars when they were taken by a group of gunmen,”..
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Afghanistan says negotiating release of helicopter hostagesAfghanistan says negotiating release of helicopter hostages
KABUL: The Taliban may free a group of mainly Turkish hostages captured when their helicopter made an emergency landing in a Taliban-controlled area of eastern Afghanistan as early as Tuesday night, a provincial official said. Negotiations between village leaders and the Taliban were underway, and that was leading to hopes they could be freed within hours, a spokesman for the governor of Logar province told Reuters. “Tribal..
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Karzai leaves for Brussels meetingKarzai leaves for Brussels meeting
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai left Tuesday for talks in Brussels with top US and Pakistani officials aimed at reviving faltering efforts to bring peace to his country. Karzai’s office says patience is running out with Pakistan, seen by the West as a key player in brokering peace with Taliban insurgents who have been battling the Kabul government and US-led foreign forces since 2001. US Secretary of State John Kerry will..
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Afghan Taliban says foreign captives are wellAfghan Taliban says foreign captives are well
  KABUL: A group of foreigners abducted by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan are well and have been moved to a “safe area” inside the country, a spokesman for the militants said on Tuesday. The Taliban leadership will decide what to do with the group, spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told a foreign news agency. Eight Turks, a Russian, a Kyrgyz man and an Afghan were seized after their helicopter made a forced..
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Karzai to discuss peace process with Kerry, Pakistani officials. Karzai to discuss peace process with Kerry, Pakistani officials.
KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday will meet Pakistan officials at Brussels to discuss the flagging Afghan peace process, it is learnt on Monday.  During his visit to Brussels, he will also meet with US Secretary of State of State John Kerry in this connection, Afghan presidential spokesman reported.  The meeting had been arranged by Kerry in order to repair relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan, following..
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Taliban kill six Afghan policemen in Ghazni Taliban kill six Afghan policemen in Ghazni
GHAZNI: Six Afghan police were killed Sunday in a Taliban raid helped by an “insider”, officials said, the latest attack involving Western-trained security forces turning on their own allies. Militants stormed a police post in Deh Yak district of central Ghazni province and killed the six officers as they slept, an official said. “One of the police who had links with the Taliban let them into the post while other..
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Taliban attack kills 13 Afghan police: officialsTaliban attack kills 13 Afghan police: officials
  KABUL: Taliban insurgents killed 13 local policemen Friday in an attack on their checkpoint in southeast Afghanistan, officials said. The policemen were sleeping when their post in the Andar district of Ghazni province came under fire, said district governor Mohammad Qasim Desiwal. "They were asleep when their checkpoint came under attack by the Taliban and were killed by AK-47 fire," Desiwal told a foreign news agency. Provincial..
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