GARDEZ (PAN): Two security guards of a road construction company were killed in a roadside bomb blast in southeastern Paktia province on Thursday, an official said.
JALALABAD (PAN): Fourteen people, including three children and a woman, were killed and another 11 wounded in a collision between a truck and a flying coach on the Kabul-Jalalabad highway on Thursday, officials said.
LASHKARGAH (PAN): NATO and Afghan forces have launched an operation to improve the security situation in Nad Ali district of Helmand ahead of the parliamentary election, an official said on Thursday.
KABUL (PAN): Taliban and Haqqani insurgent have been responsible for 26 innocent civilians killed and another 13 injured over the past one week in eastern Afghanistan, the US military said on Thursday.
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): Unidentified gunmen attacked a parliamentary candidate in northern Baghlan province, killing his aide and injuring a bodyguard on Thursday, officials said.
KABUL (PAN): Hundreds of angry protestors on Thursday condemned the killing of three brothers by US forces during an overnight operation in the Syedabad district of central Maidan Wardak province.
SHIBERGHAN (PAN): A district police chief and his four bodyguards were wounded when Taliban militants ambushed his convoy in northern Jawzjan province, officials said on Thursday.
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): An election official in northern Baghlan has warned that growing insecurity in the province could mean they are not able to hold voting for the September 18 parliamentary poll in some districts.
