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Kabul suicide bombing of NATO convoy kills 15

Agence France-PresseMay 16, 2013 04:45
A suicide car bomb targeted a foreign military convoy in Kabul on Thursday, killing 15 people including five Americans in the deadliest attack in the Afghan capital for nearly a year, officials said. The powerful explosion, which struck at 8:00 am (0330 GMT) in the Shah Shaheed southeastern residential district, also injured about 40 passers-by including many children going to school, officials said. Nine Afghans including two children died, along with two US soldiers and four NATO-contracted civilians who were travelling through the city's busy rush-hour traffic.

6 NATO personnel, 8 civilians killed in Kabul blast

Agence France-PresseMay 16, 2013 02:30
A suicide car bomb attack in Kabul on Thursday killed two NATO soldiers and four NATO contractors travelling in a convoy, officials said, as well as eight Afghan bystanders who were earlier confirmed dead. "Two International Security Assistance Force service members and four ISAF contracted civilians died," the NATO-led ISAF mission said in a statement, declining to identify nationalities in line with coalition policy. bgs/pdw/ami

NATO toll rises to 8 on day of Afghan attacks

Agence France-PresseMay 5, 2013 08:45
A total of eight NATO soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on Saturday -- the bloodiest day this year for international forces -- the coalition said, as a further death was announced. In a statement issued on Sunday, the German army confirmed that one of its special forces soldiers was killed in an insurgent attack during a joint operation near the northern city of Baghlan. Also on Saturday, five US troops died in a Taliban roadside bomb blast and two other NATO troops were shot dead by an Afghan soldier in an "insider attack".

Four dead in NATO plane crash in Afghanistan

Agence France-PresseApril 27, 2013 14:00
A NATO plane crashed in Afghanistan on Saturday killing four service members, the coalition said, adding that early reports suggested the aircraft was not brought down by insurgents. The plane crashed in the south of the country, according to a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force. bgs/ia

NATO plane crash in Afghanistan kills four

Agence France-PresseApril 27, 2013 14:00
A NATO plane crashed in Afghanistan on Saturday killing four service members, the coalition said, adding that early reports suggested the aircraft was not brought down by insurgents. The plane crashed in the south of the country, according to a statement from NATO's International Security Assistance Force. "The cause of the crash is under investigation, however initial reporting indicates there was no enemy activity in the area at the time of the crash," it said.

NATO and Azerbaijan hold meeting to assess work done within IPAP and PARP in Baku

April 9, 2013 16:49
Rashad Suleymanov; NATO and Azerbaijan is holding a meeting to assess work done within Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) and Planning and Review Process (PARP) in Baku.APA reports that representatives of various Azerbaijani military and government agencies that participated in the aforementioned programs are attending the meeting held under the auspices of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.Reports made by various agencies on the abovementioned programs have been submitted to NATO representatives.NATO expert mission will be in Baku by April 12.Azerbaijan jo

NATO strike kills 10 children in Afghanistan

April 7, 2013 09:30
A NATO air attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed at least 10 children, officials said Sunday. The children were killed during a joint Afghan-NATO operation in the Shigal district of restive Kunar province bordering Pakistan late on Saturday. "Ten children and eight militants were killed in the strike, six women were wounded," Wasifullah Wasifi, the spokesman for Kunar province, told AFP.

Russian military says CFE treaty has no future

April 6, 2013 12:49
Six years after announcing a unilateral moratorium on the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), the Russian Defense Ministry has reaffirmed that the original document has no prospects in the future. “The CFE treaty was signed when two opposing military blocs - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Warsaw Pact - still existed,” head of the Russian Defense Ministry’s department for control over the execution of international treaties Sergei Ryzhkov told reporters in Moscow on Monday. “One of these blocs is gone, but the old treaty remains.

Afghan bomb kills 3 NATO soldiers, 2 coalition civilians

April 6, 2013 10:45
An Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosion in southern Afghanistan has killed three NATO soldiers and two coalition civilians, the US-led International Security Assistance Force said on Saturday. "Three International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) service members and two coalition civilians died following an improvised explosive device attack in southern Afghanistan today," the military said in a statement. The statement did not disclose the nationalities of the fallen soldiers and civilians in line with ISAF policy.

NATO condemns Afghan court attack

April 4, 2013 11:15
NATO head Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Thursday strongly condemned a Taliban attack on a courthouse in Afghanistan which left more than 40 people dead and stressed its continued support for Kabul. "I strongly condemn yesterday's brutal attack on the courthouse in Farah Province," Rasmussen said in a statement issued from NATO headquarters in Brussels. "We stand with the Afghan leadership in strongly condemning this indiscriminate assault, which killed many Afghan civilians," he said, adding that "there can be no justification for such an act."
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