KHYBER AGENCY- Militants attacked NATO supply trucks in Khyber Agency with guns and rockets on Monday, setting vehicles ablaze and killing at least six people. Up to 20 armed militants targeted at least three Afghanistan-bound vehicles loaded with armored vehicles and other military ...

At least six persons including three drivers were killed when militants attacked three Nato containers in Shagai area of Tehsil Jamrud in Khyber Agency on Monday.According to security sources, containers transporting goods to US-led NATO troops in Afghanistan came under attack in Khyber Agency near ...

ISLAMABAD - The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf stated on Friday the provincial government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa may cut NATO supply line passing through its jurisdiction.“The party may cut NATO supply line passing through Khyber where it has formed government,” Dr Shireen Mazari, PTI ...

WASHINGTON : President Barack Obama will meet with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen at the White House on Friday to discuss Afghanistan and other security concerns, White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Tuesday. The meeting comes as NATO and the United States prepare to withdraw most ...

Gunmen on Friday opened fire on a convoy of NATO containers in a northwestern Pakistani town near the Afghan border, killing a driver and wounding a helper, officials said.The attack took place at Shagai area, 20 kilometres (12 miles) southeast of Landi Kotal, the main town of the troubled Khyber ...

KHYBER AGENCY - A driver was killed when unidentified militants opened fire at a NATO supply tanker in Gariza area of Jamrud tehsil, sub-division of Khyber tribal region, on Thursday, official sources said.  According to an administration official, the trailer returned from Afghanistan and was ...

KABUL  -  A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, Afghan and foreign officials said, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months.Forty people were wounded in the blast during ...

A suicide car bomb targeted a foreign military convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing 14 people including six NATO personnel and two children in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly a year.The powerful explosion, which struck at 8:00 am (0330 GMT) in the Shah Shaheed southeastern ...

Gunmen on Thursday killed the driver of a NATO supply truck driving through northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border, local officials said.The shooting took place in the Jamrud area of Khyber. "Two gunmen on a motorcycle fired at a NATO truck and killed its driver," local government official ...

The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) remains NATO’s top mission in Afghanistan, the alliance secretary general said, while welcoming new Supreme Allied Commander General Philip Mark Breedlove.“On your watch, Afghan forces will be taking full responsibility for the security ...

KABUL: The US-led NATO force fighting Taliban insurgents inAfghanistansaid Wednesday it has launched an investigation into alleged misconduct by its soldiers. The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) statement said that the probe would examine a clash on April 28 in the ...

  KANDAHAR   A roadside bomb killed fiveUStroops Saturday inAfghanistanand two other Nato soldiers were shot dead in an "insider attack", a week after the Taliban launched their spring offensive. The bomb killed five soldiers in a vehicle in the southern province of Kandahar, local police ...

The Taliban-linked militancy and violent incidents claimed the lives of nine soldiers from the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in a single day on Saturday, turning the day into the bloodiest one since January this year for the alliance stationed in the conflict-ridden ...

A civilian cargo plane crashed shortly after take-off at a huge US-run airbase in Afghanistan on Monday, killing all seven crew members on board, officials said.Rescue teams rushed to the scene after the plane smashed into the ground inside the boundaries of Bagram airfield, a key transport hub for ...

KHYBER AGENCY  -  Nato supply driver killed  Our Staff Reporter KHYBER AGENCY - A NATO supply driver was killed when unknown militants opened firing on him and tanker in Wazirdand area of tehsil Jamrud of Khyber Agency on Sunday. The sources said that the NATO supply tanker bearing ...

KABUL - Nato insisted Thursday that the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan is being won, despite reports by other organisations of a sharp upsurge in insurgent attacks this year.US General Joseph Dunford, head of the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), said there was ...

BRUSSELS Reuters Pakistan must play a positive role in bringing stability to Afghanistan as foreign troops prepare to leave in 2014, the head of NATO said on Tuesday, before a US-chaired meeting that will try to ease friction between often feuding neighbours.US Secretary of State John Kerry will ...

  khyber agency A Nato container, carrying commodities of Afghanistan based Allied Forces for Karachi port for shipment, was fired upon by some unknown attackers here at Bypass Road of tehsil Jamrud, the Sub-Division of Khyber, official sources informed. The sources said that the container ...

KHYBER AGENCY - A helper of a Nato container was killed and another was injured by unknown militants on Sunday here in the Tedi Bazaar area of tehsil Jamrud, subdivision, Khyber Agency.The sources said two Nato supply containers were going to Karachi from Torkham after delivering assignment ...

SHIGAL, Afghanistan  - Eleven children and a woman were killed by an air strike during a Nato operation targeting Taliban commanders in eastern Afghanistan, officials in the region said Sunday.Civilian deaths have been a long-running source of friction between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and ...

KANDAHAR  – A female American diplomat and six NATO personnel were killed on Saturday in two separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials said, in the deadliest day for foreign forces this year.Three US soldiers and two American civilians were among the dead, a US security source said, ...

A NATO air attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 10 children, officials said Sunday.The children were killed during a joint Afghan-NATO operation in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province bordering Pakistan late on Saturday."Ten children and eight militants were killed in the ...

GHAZNI  - A Nato air strike killed four Afghan police and two civilians on Thursday, Afghan officials said.A spokesman for the US-led Nato force in Kabul told AFP that the military was checking the information. The attack happened after Taliban insurgents attacked a local police post in ...

WASHINGTON  - The United States said Thursday it was nominating Air Force General Philip Breedlove as the new Nato Supreme Commander, filling the key position a month after top general John Allen stepped aside.President Barack Obama “is nominating Air Force General Philip Breedlove to ...

PESHAWAR - Khyber Truckers Association set up a protest camp against lethargic attitude of custom bonded carrier company and police and demanded of the government to rid them of police and Customs officials ‘injustices’.The Association President Jehanzeb Khan and Senior Vice President ...

GHAZNI - Seven Afghan civilians were killed Sunday after a Nato operation against insurgents in a central province which is a flashpoint for Taliban activity, officials said.The US-led Nato force said it was investigating allegations of civilian casualties after a military operation in which four ...

KARACHI  - Transporters who carry Nato supplies to landlocked Afghanistan have gone on strike, disrupting the flow of goods to Western forces in a protest against a new customs regime aimed at cutting theft.A spokesman for Afghanistan's Nato-led force declined to comment on how the strike ...

KABUL  - A senior international alliance officer in Afghanistan questioned Wednesday why the local army, which is due to take responsibility for security next year, has demanded tanks to fight insurgents. US-led Nato combat troops will withdraw by the end of 2014, leaving Afghan forces to ...

BRUSSELS (AFP) - NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Monday hailed the decision by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to transfer control over security in a fresh batch of areas to local forces."With this decision, the Afghan security forces will be taking the lead for security for 87 ...

North waziristan   - A Nato gunship helicopter violated border limits of Pakistan and flew in the Ghulam Khan area of North Waziristan for about five minutes on Monday, the government sources said. Meanwhile, two mortar bombs were also fired from across the Afghan border, which hit Miranshah. ...