Us Soldiers Killed By Taliban

At least 85 people, including 72 Afghans, were killed after twin blasts outside Kabul airport Thursday evening. 13 US soldiers and 28 Taliban fighters also died in the attack, which took place a week before American forces are to leave Afghanistan.

A Taliban bomb killed two American soldiers in a NATO convoy late on Friday night near the US Bagram Airfield base north of Kabul, a US defence official said on Saturday.

At least four Afghanistan soldiers were killed, and around a dozen people including six civilians wounded after a roadside bomb planted by the Taliban exploded in the Afghanistan capital on Tuesday, officials said.

The killing of a US general by an Afghan soldier in the latest "insider attack" will fuel mutual mistrust, but training the Afghan military to take on the Taliban is crucial to Washington's exit strategy.

A US general was killed and more than a dozen people were wounded on Tuesday, including a German general, in the latest insider attack by a man believed to be an Afghan soldier, US, German and Afghan officials said.

Georgia said on Wednesday that the country has closed two of its bases in Afghanistan after 10 of its soldiers were killed by militant attacks within the last four weeks, but it will not reduce the number of troops serving there.

On May 17, 2006, in a firefight with Afghan Taliban insurgents, Canadian forces lost an artillery officer hit by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade. She was Capt. Nichola Goddard, the first Canadian woman to be killed in action since her country's 1989 decision to admit women soldiers into combat.

NATO was accused of killing eight women on Sunday, capping a weekend which saw six soldiers shot dead by presumed Afghan colleagues and a Taliban assault cause unprecedented losses on one of the biggest military bases in the country.

Taliban militants opened fire on Tuesday on an Afghan government delegation visiting one of the two villages in southern Afghanistan where a US soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians. The gunfire killed an Afghan soldier who was providing security for the delegation, said Gen. Abdul Razaq, the police chief for Kandahar province where the visi...

Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents today vowed revenge against "sick minded American savages" for the weekend rampage by a US soldier who killed 16 villagers in their homes. The Taliban would "take revenge from the invaders and the savage murderers for every single martyr", they said in a statement on their website.

The United States is vacating an air base in Pakistan used by American drones that target Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, complying with a key demand made by Islamabad in retaliation for the NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, the US ambassador said on Monday.

Two Pakistani soldiers were injured on Tuesday in a strike by a NATO helicopter from Afghanistan that intruded into the volatile North Waziristan tribal region, an incident that could further inflame strained ties between Washington and Islamabad.The incident occurred on Tuesday morning in Datta Khel region of North Waziristan Agency, which has wit...

At least 85 people, including 72 Afghans, were killed after twin blasts outside Kabul airport Thursday evening. 13 US soldiers and 28 Taliban fighters also died in the attack, which took place a week before American forces are to leave Afghanistan.

A Taliban bomb killed two American soldiers in a NATO convoy late on Friday night near the US Bagram Airfield base north of Kabul, a US defence official said on Saturday.

At least four Afghanistan soldiers were killed, and around a dozen people including six civilians wounded after a roadside bomb planted by the Taliban exploded in the Afghanistan capital on Tuesday, officials said.

The killing of a US general by an Afghan soldier in the latest "insider attack" will fuel mutual mistrust, but training the Afghan military to take on the Taliban is crucial to Washington's exit strategy.

A US general was killed and more than a dozen people were wounded on Tuesday, including a German general, in the latest insider attack by a man believed to be an Afghan soldier, US, German and Afghan officials said.

Georgia said on Wednesday that the country has closed two of its bases in Afghanistan after 10 of its soldiers were killed by militant attacks within the last four weeks, but it will not reduce the number of troops serving there.

On May 17, 2006, in a firefight with Afghan Taliban insurgents, Canadian forces lost an artillery officer hit by shrapnel from a rocket-propelled grenade. She was Capt. Nichola Goddard, the first Canadian woman to be killed in action since her country's 1989 decision to admit women soldiers into combat.

NATO was accused of killing eight women on Sunday, capping a weekend which saw six soldiers shot dead by presumed Afghan colleagues and a Taliban assault cause unprecedented losses on one of the biggest military bases in the country.

Taliban militants opened fire on Tuesday on an Afghan government delegation visiting one of the two villages in southern Afghanistan where a US soldier is suspected of killing 16 civilians. The gunfire killed an Afghan soldier who was providing security for the delegation, said Gen. Abdul Razaq, the police chief for Kandahar province where the visi...

Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents today vowed revenge against "sick minded American savages" for the weekend rampage by a US soldier who killed 16 villagers in their homes. The Taliban would "take revenge from the invaders and the savage murderers for every single martyr", they said in a statement on their website.

The United States is vacating an air base in Pakistan used by American drones that target Taliban and Al Qaeda militants, complying with a key demand made by Islamabad in retaliation for the NATO airstrikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, the US ambassador said on Monday.

Two Pakistani soldiers were injured on Tuesday in a strike by a NATO helicopter from Afghanistan that intruded into the volatile North Waziristan tribal region, an incident that could further inflame strained ties between Washington and Islamabad.The incident occurred on Tuesday morning in Datta Khel region of North Waziristan Agency, which has wit...