The Bulgaria contingent, which is part of the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, is going to assume control of the airport in the country’s second largest city Kandahar.
The Bulgarian troops will be in charge of guarding the airport and its access points. Bulgaria’s government decided Thursday during its regular weekly meeting that it would [...]

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LONDON, April 14 (KUNA) — Two servicemen from the British Royal Air Force (RAF) Regiment have been killed in a roadside blast in southern Afghanistan, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed Monday.
The pair died during the explosion in Kandahar Province on Sunday 13 April, the MoD said.
Two other service personnel were injured in the [...]

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Prague, March 19 (CTK) - The Czech soldier who was seriously wounded in a suicide bomb attack in the south of Afghanistan on Monday, has been flown to the Czech Republic aboard a British aircraft that landed in Prague Wednesday, Czech military police Jan Cermak told CTK.The soldier was immediately rushed to Prague’s Central Military [...]

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KABUL, March 17 (KUNA) — A Canadian soldier was killed during a foot-patrol in southern Afghanistan, military officials said on Monday.
Without revealing his name, NATO officials said the soldier was killed during a patrol in the southern province of Kandahar, late on Sunday. He was injured in the blast and was airlifted to NATO’s medical [...]

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KABUL, March 14 (KUNA) — The US-led coalition forces said they had detained 11 Taliban militants during a joint operation with Afghan troops in the southeastern zone.
A statement released from the coalition forces’ Bagram base here on Friday said the suspected militants were captured in Khost province.
All those held were accused of having links with [...]

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KABUL, March 3 (KUNA) — One Canadian soldier and several Taliban insurgents were killed in separate incidents of violence in southern Afghanistan, the foreign military said here Monday.
A statement from the coalition forces’ Bagram base said several insurgents were killed and eight suspects were detained during two separate operations to degrade Taliban leadership networks.
The troops [...]

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KABUL, Feb 18 (KUNA) — At least 35 Afghan civilians were killed and around 30 wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on a Candian forces’ convoy in Afghanistan’s southern province of Kandahar on Monday. The attack, the second deadliest in less than two days, was carried out in the border town of Spin Boldak, [...]

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BRUSSELS, Feb 18 (KUNA) — NATO condemned Monday the Kandahar bombing that led to the death and injury of more than 70 people attending a dog-fight.
NATO Secretary, Jaap de Hoop de Schefferi, added in a statement issued last night, that those whom committed this crime are against peace and stability in Afghanistan, expressing his deep [...]

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KABUL, Feb 12 (KUNA) — One soldier of the NATO alliance was killed and another wounded in a suicide car bomb attack in western Afghanistan on Tuesday. Separately, officials say armed men kidnapped about a dozen Pakistani workers in the same western region of the troubled country. A NATO spokesperson said the soldier was killed [...]

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KABUL, Feb 7 (KUNA) — Three soldiers of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) were killed as a suicide bomber hit their convoy in southeastern Afghanistan on Thursday afternoon.
The blast happened at a time when US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her British counterpart David Milliband were visiting the southern province of Kandahar [...]

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