The night Canadian Master Corporal Darrell Priede of Brantford died in Afghanistan, the Afghan war took a sudden dangerous new twist. A stream of secret U.S. military intelligence reports released this week by the WikiLeaks website suggests the May 2007 death was the result of a Taliban attack with a heat-seeking, surface-to-air missile launched from [...]
PESHAWAR: Army guards shot and killed three suspected suicide bombers as they tried to enter a sprawling military firing range in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, police said. Four soldiers were wounded in the attack, which showed the persistent threat insurgents pose to Pakistan’s security forces, especially those operating near the Afghan border. Police official Akhtar [...]
A suicide attack on a mosque in southeastern Iran on Thursday killed at least 15 people and injured 22, the Iranian interior ministry said. Deputy Interior Minister Ali Abdollahi told a news agency the bombings took place in the city of Zahedan. He added that the death toll was likely to increase, and among those killed [...]
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — NATO says three of its troops and five civilians have been killed in an attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. An Afghan official says a police officer also died in the attack late Tuesday night. A statement from the international force says a car bomb slammed into [...]
PESHAWAR: Eleven people were killed on Saturday when unknown armed men fired on a passenger bus in Afghanistan’s Waza area, DawnNews reported. The bus had initially departed from Parachinar and was on its way to Peshawar via Afghanistan. Due to the closure of the Tull-Parachinar road, passengers from the area these days take the Afghanistan [...]
