7 dead in Afghan suicide blast: officials

Army National Guard unit training Afghan police as U.S., coalition troop withdrawal nears.An Afghan Uniform Police officer shows poppy bulbs to Spec. Kristine Deboda, of Wilmington, Del., after the destruction of a poppy field in Kandahar.(Photo: ...

KARACHI, May 21: Wapda edged Pakistan Army 1-0 to reach the semi-finals of the National Challenge Cup on Wednesday. The event, being held in Bahawalpur, has been marred by the lighting system in place at the stadium and the first quarter-final of ...

(BSS/AFP) - Pakistani authorities late Wednesday accused the Afghan National Army (ANA) of firing on one of its border checkposts, injuring at least two security personnel. A senior Pakistan security official in the country's northwest said ANA ...

By December 2014 the Afghan National Security Forces that have been built by the US and NATO will be left to largely stand on their own. Afghanistan is suffering a crisis of confidence and given what's on the horizon, it's not so difficult to see ...

Aerial surveillance among new roles for Afghan commandos, top general says An Afghanistan National Army (ANA) helicopter flies over a military base as a commando looks on. A U.S. general says the ANA's special forces are being trained to use ...

LISLE, Ill., Feb. 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Navistar Defense, LLC, already a key supplier to the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP), has received an urgent delivery order from the U.S. Army (TACOM LCMC) to retrofit 205 ...

The 161 soldiers of Rock Hill's Army National Guard 178th Combat Engineers who have spent the past nine months in Afghanistan have finished their mission and are soon heading home, Army officials confirmed. The unit has the dangerous job of clearing ...

As the Maryland National Guard prepares for what could be its final deployment to Afghanistan, its commander sees a "pivotal point" in the nation's history. More than a decade of deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and other battlegrounds since Sept.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Seven Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers were killed in different parts of the country, the defense ministry said. A statement from the ministry said six soldiers were killed in two blasts in the Bala Baluk district of Western Farah ...