Tag: CASUALTIES

ISLAMABAD - The United Nations said Tuesday that civilian deaths and injuries in Afghanistan declined by 15% last year but surged in the final three months after peace talks between the government and Taliban insurgents began in September.   In its annual report documenting casualties, the U.N. Assistance Mission in ...

The number of civilians killed and wounded in violence across war-weary Afghanistan fell by 15 percent last year compared to 2019, according to a United Nations report released Tuesday.The UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the UN Human Rights Office attributed the drop in civilian casualties in part to ...

A series of loud explosions shook central Kabul on Saturday, AFP correspondents heard, including several in quick succession that sounded like rockets being fired.There were no immediate reports of any casualties but the explosions occurred in densely populated parts of the Afghan capital including near the centrally located Green ...

Militants on Monday hurled a grenade towards a police post in Kulgam district of Jammu and Kashmir but there was no loss of life, police said. Militants hurled a grenade towards Police Post Frisal in the south Kashmir district in the evening, a police official said. He said the ...

Srinagar, Nov 13: National Conference (NC) on Friday condemned the casualties along LoC today following heavy mortar shelling and called for an immediate end to such skirmishes on Line of Control (LoC). While expressing grief and sorrow over the unfortunate killings on LoC Party’s senior leaders Choudhary Muhammad Ramzan, Nazir ...

Nine more COVID-19 patients including a doctor from Jammu division have died in the past 24 hours, taking the number of casualties in J&K to 1511, while Wednesday witnessed 512 fresh cases, pushing the total infection tally to 96,700, officials said.As per the government, the fresh casualties include seven ...

ISLAMABAD - The United Nations says the conflict in Afghanistan has killed and injured nearly 6,000 civilians during the first nine months of 2020, representing a 30% decline compared to the same period last year. The report compiled by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) comes as direct ...

KARACHI, PakistanA landslide struck a passenger bus in northern Pakistan on Sunday, killing all 16 people on board, an official and local media said.The incident took place near mountainous Skurdu town -- a famous tourist destination in Gilgit-Baltistan region, which borders China.Miraj Alam, an assistant commissioner for Skurdu, told ...

KARACHI, PakistanA landslide struck a passenger bus in northern Pakistan on Sunday, killing all 16 people on board, an official and local media said.The incident took place near mountainous Skurdu town -- a famous tourist destination in Gilgit-Baltistan region, which borders China.Miraj Alam, an assistant commissioner for Skurdu, told ...

ISLAMABAD - Officials in Afghanistan said Wednesday two military helicopters collided and crashed in the embattled southern Helmand province, killing at least nine people aboard. Separately, Taliban insurgents raided security outposts in other provinces and killed more than a dozen government forces.   Provincial authorities in Helmand said two Russian-made ...