Last Updated: Friday, January 31, 2014, 15:02
An Afghan official says the Taliban have attacked three police checkpoints overnight in the southern province of Helmand. The police repelled the attacks but lost one officer.
Last Updated: Tuesday, December 10, 2013, 23:13
Police in a remote northern Afghan village rescued a woman from being stoned to death after she was condemned by the Taliban for allegedly cheating on her husband, officials said on Tuesday.
Last Updated: Monday, September 16, 2013, 08:45
The top female police officer in Afghanistan`s restive south died on Monday, officials said, a day after she was shot by gunmen in an attack that followed the recent killing of her predecessor.
Last Updated: Thursday, September 5, 2013, 11:52
Afghanistan`s intelligence agency Thursday said that its spies shot dead two Pakistanis who opened fire on Afghan worshippers before dawn at a Shiite Muslim mosque in Kabul.
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 4, 2013, 13:28
Afghan security forces have arrested eight policemen for accidentally killing six children when firing a rocket into a river to catch fish.
Last Updated: Thursday, August 29, 2013, 13:55
An Afghan official says 15 policemen have been killed and another 10 wounded in a Taliban ambush in western Afghanistan`s Farah province.
Last Updated: Monday, June 17, 2013, 16:00
An official says a suicide car bomber has hit by the convoy of a provincial police chief in southern Afghanistan.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 18, 2013, 14:18
Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday.
Last Updated: Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 09:54
Afghan police say eight suicide bombers have attacked one of their headquarters in the eastern city of Jalalabad, killing five officers and wounding four others.
Last Updated: Wednesday, March 13, 2013, 16:09
One Afghan policeman and six militants were killed in an attack launched overnight by Taliban at a checkpoint in southern Afghanistan province of Helmand, an official said Wednesday.
Last Updated: Monday, November 12, 2012, 14:20
A would-be suicide bomber was killed and another injured in an exchange of fire with the police in Afghanistan.
Last Updated: Friday, November 2, 2012, 23:36
Four Afghan police officers were shot dead today in southern Helmand province in an insider attack by their colleagues, officials said.
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