Amid ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan, the government forces conducted air strikes against Taliban hideouts in Taliban former stronghold the southern Helmand province Sunday morning, killing 18 insurgents, a security official said.
At least 23 people were wounded Thursday in a suicide car bombing in eastern Afghanistan's province of Logar, an official said.
The Taliban-led militancy has intensified in northern parts of the conflict-ridden Afghanistan as fighting between insurgents and security forces has been continuing in the northern Saripul and parts of Kunduz provinces over the past two days.
Amid the ongoing militancy and counter- militancy in war-torn Afghanistan, the government forces have killed a Taliban key commander in the western Herat province on Saturday while operations for regaining the control of Dasht-e- Archi district in the northern Kunduz province have been going on Since Friday. "Hajji Wazir, the commander of Taliban militants in west Afghanistan who was in a house to chalk out terrorist plan but the security forces acting upon intelligence report raided the house early Saturday and killed him on the spot," Herat provincial police chief Abdul Majid Rozi told Xinhua.
The Afghan national security forces killed at least 120 armed insurgents and regained control of the strategically important Yamgan district in the northern Badakhshan province after days of heavy fighting, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.
Bangladesh's government slapped a nighttime curfew Sunday evening on the country's southeastern Rangamati district, some 293 km away of capital Dhaka, after violence spread to different parts of the hilly district following tribal clashes.
Death toll of the road accident caused by a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck in Pakistan's south Sukkur district has risen to 57, local media reported.
At least 17 people were killed and over 20 others injured when a passenger bus collided with a truck in Pakistan's south Sukkur district on Tuesday morning, local media reported.
Militants loyal to the wily Taliban outfit fighting to regain power in Afghanistan have been challenging Afghan security forces in their former stronghold -- the southern Helmand province over the past couple of months.
Afghan conflict and militancy have claimed the lives of nine people including a service member of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) on Thursday.
Russia's strategic forces conducted planned exercises Thursday in the country under the supervision of President Vladimir Putin, the Interfax news agency reported.
Five people were killed and 15 others wounded Tuesday night when Taliban launched an attack on a stopped logistic convoy in western Afghan province of Farah, the authorities said Wednesday morning.
Clash between Taliban militants and pro-government villagers in Andar district of Ghazni province, 125 km south of Kabul, has left 31 Taliban fighters dead on Friday.
At least one policeman was killed and two others wounded in explosion in Khan Abad district of northern Afghan province of Kunduz Tuesday morning, a local official said.
Thirteen Afghan Local Police (ALP) personnel were killed early Friday morning when Taliban launched attack on a checkpoint in Andar district in the country's eastern province of Ghazni, an official said.
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