Kabul - The number of roadside bombing attacks in Afghanistan jumped by 50 per cent in the first eight months of the year, according to a top official in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
German General Hans-Lothar Domroese, chief of staff of the ISAF, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa that 1,200 such bombs had been detonated by radical Islamic militia by August this year.
In the same period last year, 800 such attacks had been recorded.
The development was very worrying, Domroese said.
Kabul- A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle near a convoy of NATO-led German soldiers in northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing himself and a civilian, but causing no casualties among the soldiers, police said.
Kabul - Hundreds of Afghan demonstrators took to the streets on Monday in Kabul, accusing US military forces of killing a man and his two children in a raid earlier that day, witnesses said.
If Democratic presidential candidate Barak Obama wins the November poll, he will approach the heads of EU leaders to win support for British and American forces fighting the Taliban, revealed his campaign spokesman Senator Jack Reed.
After repeated requests from Islamabad, the Afghanistan Government has reportedly promised to Pakistan to return “soon” one of the three sons of Pakistani scientist and “terror suspect” Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who was arrested in Afghanistan earlier this month and presently being tried in the US for “terror” charges.
