KABUL (PAN): The joint Afghan-NATO transition board that met in Kabul on Sunday agreed that Afghan forces were ready and capable to take over security responsibility for the whole of the country.
PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Gunmen shot dead the head and a member of a local community council in the Barak-i-Barak district of central Logar province on Sunday, an official said.
PUL-I-KHUMRI (PAN): German troops have vacated a military base in the capital of northern Baghlan province, handing the facility over to Afghan forces, an official said on Sunday.
TIRINKOT (PAN): Six civilians were killed and four others sustained injuries when a roadside bomb ripped through their vehicle in the central province of Uruzgan on Sunday.
PUL-I-ALAM (PAN): Fifteen Taliban insurgents were killed and five others were detained during a joint Afghan-ISAF forces’ operation in the central province of Logar, officials said on Sunday.
KABUL (PAN): British forces are moving their headquarters from Lashkargah, the capital of southern Helmand province, to their main base known as Camp Bastion in the Greskh district.
SHIBERGHAN/FAIZABAD (PAN): A midwife was killed by unknown gunmen in northern Jawzjan and a Taliban commander and an Afghan soldier died during a clash in neighbouring Badakhshan province, officials said on Saturday.
KABUL (PAN): A former district chief was gunned down in what appeared to be a targeted killing in southern Zabul province, while two civilians were killed when insurgents attacked Afghan Local Police (ALP) members in Ghazni, officials said on Saturday.
KABUL (PAN): British defence secretary Philip Hammond has admitted that the long war in Afghanistan had left Britain wary of more major military engagements abroad, calling it the Vietnam phenomenon that sapped America’s will to fight.
ISLAMABAD (PAN): A dozen female university students were killed and more than 20 others wounded when a bomb ripped through the bus they were travelling in on Saturday in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province.
