International Security And Assistance Force

Border Security Force soldiers are vigilant and well prepared to counter drone threat from the Pakistan side, BSF Assistant Commandant Gaurav Sharma said here on Wednesday.

An Assistant Sub-Inspector of the Border Security Force (BSF) died of a bullet injury from his own service rifle at a forward post near the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, officials said.

At least 15 civilians were killed and over 120 other suffered injuries in clashes between Taliban terrorists and Afghan security forces in the last three days in the Afghan cities of Lashkargah and Kandahar, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Four Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, including an assistant commandant-rank officer, were killed and three others injured in firing by Pakistan Rangers along the International Border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior BSF officer said today.

The ICJ or International Court of Justice at the Hague gave its verdict today, ruling in favour of India in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. The top UN court told Pakistan to take all possible measures to ensure that Mr Jadhav is not executed before the international court gives its final verdict. It also told Pakistan to give consular access to India. ...

Significant parts of Pakistan along its border with Afghanistan, including Waziristan, Balochistan and FATA, continue to be a safe haven for terrorists, the US State Department said in a report today.

Afghan security forces are on high alert today to prevent Taliban attacks marking the end of the year as NATO combat operations close down and a new "train and support" mission takes over.

The Taliban responded scornfully today to the formal end of NATO's war in Afghanistan, describing the US-led mission as a "fire of barbarism and cruelty" that had drowned the country "in a pool of blood"

Afghan officials said that a NATO air strikE, today, killed five civilians and wounded six others, just days before the US-led military coalition ends combat operations in the country.

Separate insurgent attacks killed two US troops and a top Afghan court official, authorities said on Saturday, part of a surging wave of militant assaults ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign troops at the end of the month.

The US and NATO ceremonially ended their combat mission in Afghanistan today, 13 years after the September 11 terror attacks sparked their invasion of the country to topple the Taliban-led Government.

A militant attack was underway at Kabul airport on Thursday as explosions and gunfire rang out, according to an AFP photographer.

Does the March 13 fidayeen (suicide) attack in Bemina in Srinagar, in which five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men were killed and another seven including civilians injured, come as a surprise? If one were to believe the security agencies, specially the intelligence agencies, the answer is a clear 'No'.

Five members of the NATO-led international force fighting in Afghanistan were killed in a helicopter crash in bad weather in the country's south, the coalition and provincial authorities said on Tuesday.

The fighting is over at a major foreign guesthouse complex used by Westerners in Kabul and all attackers have been killed, a spokesman for the US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan said on Wednesday."Afghan security forces have killed all the attackers and it is over," said Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for NATO's International Secur...

Border Security Force soldiers are vigilant and well prepared to counter drone threat from the Pakistan side, BSF Assistant Commandant Gaurav Sharma said here on Wednesday.

An Assistant Sub-Inspector of the Border Security Force (BSF) died of a bullet injury from his own service rifle at a forward post near the International Border in Kathua district of Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday, officials said.

At least 15 civilians were killed and over 120 other suffered injuries in clashes between Taliban terrorists and Afghan security forces in the last three days in the Afghan cities of Lashkargah and Kandahar, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

Four Border Security Force (BSF) personnel, including an assistant commandant-rank officer, were killed and three others injured in firing by Pakistan Rangers along the International Border in Samba district of Jammu and Kashmir, a senior BSF officer said today.

The ICJ or International Court of Justice at the Hague gave its verdict today, ruling in favour of India in the Kulbhushan Jadhav case. The top UN court told Pakistan to take all possible measures to ensure that Mr Jadhav is not executed before the international court gives its final verdict. It also told Pakistan to give consular access to India. ...

Significant parts of Pakistan along its border with Afghanistan, including Waziristan, Balochistan and FATA, continue to be a safe haven for terrorists, the US State Department said in a report today.

Afghan security forces are on high alert today to prevent Taliban attacks marking the end of the year as NATO combat operations close down and a new "train and support" mission takes over.

The Taliban responded scornfully today to the formal end of NATO's war in Afghanistan, describing the US-led mission as a "fire of barbarism and cruelty" that had drowned the country "in a pool of blood"

Afghan officials said that a NATO air strikE, today, killed five civilians and wounded six others, just days before the US-led military coalition ends combat operations in the country.

Separate insurgent attacks killed two US troops and a top Afghan court official, authorities said on Saturday, part of a surging wave of militant assaults ahead of the withdrawal of most foreign troops at the end of the month.

The US and NATO ceremonially ended their combat mission in Afghanistan today, 13 years after the September 11 terror attacks sparked their invasion of the country to topple the Taliban-led Government.

A militant attack was underway at Kabul airport on Thursday as explosions and gunfire rang out, according to an AFP photographer.

Does the March 13 fidayeen (suicide) attack in Bemina in Srinagar, in which five Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) men were killed and another seven including civilians injured, come as a surprise? If one were to believe the security agencies, specially the intelligence agencies, the answer is a clear 'No'.

Five members of the NATO-led international force fighting in Afghanistan were killed in a helicopter crash in bad weather in the country's south, the coalition and provincial authorities said on Tuesday.

The fighting is over at a major foreign guesthouse complex used by Westerners in Kabul and all attackers have been killed, a spokesman for the US-led NATO mission in Afghanistan said on Wednesday."Afghan security forces have killed all the attackers and it is over," said Lieutenant Colonel Jimmie Cummings, a spokesman for NATO's International Secur...