Taliban insurgents trying to seize a southern Afghan city killed 14 people including 10 policemen in a coordinated attack which started with a car bombing Monday, officials said. The assault was the militants’ latest attempt to capture the besieged Helmand provincial capital of Lashkar Gah after they gradually expanded their ...
An Afghan military helicopter has crashed due to a technical failure in northern Afghanistan, leaving all the seven people on board dead. The Afghan Defense Ministry said the incident occurred in the country’s northern province of Baghlan early on Sunday when the helicopter was supplying an army base in the ...