At least seven large explosions and automatic gunfire have rocked the central diplomatic area of the Afghan capital Kabul, Reuters news agency quoted witnesses as saying on Sunday. Gunfire appeared to be coming from various directions in the heavily barricaded diplomatic area of central Kabul close to both the US and British embassies. The US embassy sounded ...
Gunmen launched multiple attacks in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Sunday, with blasts and gunfire erupting in the heavily guarded, central diplomatic area and at the Afghan parliament in the west, witnesses and officials said. Gunfire appeared to be coming from various directions in the barricaded diplomatic area of the city, close to both the US ...
Kabul: A series of explosions followed by sustained gunfire shook the Afghan capital on Sunday in what appeared to be a coordinated attack by militants on three neighborhoods frequented by Afghan government officials and their international allies. There were attacks about the same time in two other eastern cities - Jalalabad and Gardez. There were no ...
Several large explosions and bursts of gunfire were heard on Sunday near the United States embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul, although the target was not immediately clear. The US embassy sounded alarms and warned staff to take cover, AFP reporters heard from their office near the embassy in the Wazir Akbar Khan area, which houses ...
The Afghan Taliban has rejected U.S. allegations that the Haqqani terrorist network is supported by Pakistan, in an email CNN obtained Wednesday. "Our bases are not in Pakistan nor do we reside outside of our country in insecure conditions," the email sent to Afghan and Pakistani journalists said. "All military and civilian activities in (Afghanistan) are ...
A top Pakistani official has warned that public anger toward the US is getting beyond the government's control, and blamed the recent spike in tensions on a US administration increasingly anxious to fulfill its mission in Afghanistan ahead of a planned 2014 withdrawal. Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani told Reuters yesterday that a top US military ...
Angry protests against President Hamid Karzai erupted Friday at the burial of the Afghan government's chief peace negotiator, who was killed this week by a suicide bomber posing as a Taliban envoy. The daylong funeral observances for Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former president, brought Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, to a near standstill, with some of the heaviest security ...
Afghans gathered to mourn assassinated former president and chief peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani on Wednesday, World Peace Day, as fears mounted that his death could deepen ethnic divisions and nudge the country toward civil war. Rabbani, perhaps the most prominent Afghan to be killed since the fall of the Taliban in 2001, died at his home ...
The Afghan government says the two-day insurgent assault in the heart of Kabul has ended and all the attackers have been killed. The Interior Ministry says the area around the building where attackers had been holed up is now safe. The head of the police unit overseeing the operation says that the last six attackers were killed ...
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