3 Pakistanis among 9 dead in Kabul jailbreak
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KABUL: Five Afghan prison guards and police and four prisoners were killed in a jailbreak attempt by Al Qaeda inmates on Friday, said a spokesman for the Interior Ministry.
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Muslim students linked to a radical mosque kidnapped nine people, including three Chinese women, from an alleged brothel in Pakistan's capital on Saturday, freeing them hours later, officials said.
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Police in southwestern Pakistan detained 36 people, mostly Afghan refugees, for questioning about a suicide bombing inside a courtroom that killed a judge and 15 other people, an official said Sunday.
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ISLAMABAD, Aug. 22. - Pakistan today said it has foiled attempts by Al-Qaida operatives to kill top leaders and bomb the Presidential palace, parliament building, the army headquarters and US embassy here by arresting nine militants.
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Pakistani police arrested 17 Afghans  suspected of being Taliban militants, including a former Kabul  police chief and a provincial governor, police said on Friday.
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Afghan soldiers killed two prisoners  holed up in Kabul's Pul-i-Charki jail on Friday after a  day-long siege that started when a group of inmates identified  as al Qaeda killed their guards in an attempted jailbreak.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A former inmate at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who returned to Afghanistan to rejoin the Taliban as a key commander, was killed with two other militiamen in a raid by Afghan security forces, two senior officials said yesterday.
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Two al-Qaeda suspects and five prison guards die in a jailbreak attempt in Kabul, Afghan authorities say.
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At least three Pakistani soldiers have been killed and seven injured in two separate attacks in the rugged tribal region near Afghan border, officials said.
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KARACHI - Pakistani security agencies have arrested 11 militants since killing Amjad Farooqi, the alleged mastermind of bids to kill President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, an official said Tuesday.
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Suspected Taliban militants beheaded three Afghan soldiers in the troubled southern province of Zabul over the weekend in the latest pre-election violence, an official said Monday.
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An inmate injured in a deadly Afghan prison shootout will be questioned to determine if he and four comrades, all once suspected of belonging to al-Qaida, were trying to escape or were attempting to attack three American prisoners, the jail warden said
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Nine police officers were killed Sunday in a suicide bombing and a separate Taliban raid on a police post in troubled southern Afghanistan, officials said.
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Three Afghan prison guards and two  prisoners were killed in a jail break attempt by al Qaeda  inmates on Friday and a shoot-out was going on with another  two, the chief of Kabul's Pul-i-Charki prison told Reuters.
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Afghan officials say they have arrested 17 people who had been trained in Pakistan to carry out suicide attacks.
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KABUL -- Taliban-linked militants holding three UN hostages said yesterday the Afghan government has agreed to free some of their jailed comrades to prevent the killing of the foreign captives. Afghan state television reported that President Hamid Karzai had decreed the release of prisoners for Eid, the end of the Muslim fasting month, expected on Sunday. But there was no ...
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Three people, including a woman and her infant son, were killed as Pakistani security forces battled suspected militants in a remote tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.