NATO bombing kills 5 Afghan troops.

Nato airstrike kills five Afghan soldiers.

Dawn photo

Kabul | Dawn News | Mar 06 2014:: A provincial government official says an early morning Nato airstrike in Afghanistan's central Logar province killed five Afghan National Army soldiers and wounded another 17.

The official, who asked not to be identified because he was not authorised to talk to the media, says the strike occurred at 2 am Thursday.

He said government officials were in meetings to decide their response and to conduct a further investigation into the incident.

There was no immediate response from Nato to requests for comment. If it turns out that a Nato strike killed ANA troops, it is likely to set Afghan President Hamid Karzai on another attack against US and Nato soldiers in his country.

The president has been deeply critical of civilian deaths by international forces.

An insurgent compound explodes after a U.S. Air Force B-1 Lancer drops a 

38GBU  bomb on the facility in northern Bala Murghab Valley, Baghdis province, 

Afghanistan, April 4, 2011. Afghan officials say NATO forces accidentally bombed 

Afghan National Army forces in the pre-dawn hours of Thursday, killing five and 

wounding at least eight others. COURTESY: U.S. AIR FORCE

Courtesy: Dawn.

Taliban kill 15 Afghan police in western province.

Taliban kill 15 Afghan police in western 

province.

Kabul | 29 Aug 2013 :: An Afghan official says 15 policemen have been killed and another 10 wounded in a Taliban ambush in western Afghanistan’s Farah province.

Farah provincial spokesman Abdul Rahman Zhawandai said Thursday that the Afghan National Police squad was on patrol along the region’s main highway when they were ambushed in a mountain pass.

Zhawandai said the attack occurred late Wednesday as about 40 policemen were patrolling the highway in several vehicles.

Insurgents frequently ambush vehicles on the highway, which is a main trade route through the province.

The Taliban have escalated attacks in recent months as they try to take advantage of the withdrawal of foreign troops, who handed over security for the country to Afghan forces two months ago.(Courtesy:Al Alarabia)

Afghan police chief survives car bomb attack.

Afghan Policemen investigate a damaged

 car following a suicide car bomb attack

 in Helmand province southern Afghanistan,

 Monday, June 17, 2013. - AP Photo

KABUL | 17 June 2013::An Afghan police chief survived a suicide car bomb attack on his convoy that wounded three officers early on Monday, officials said. It was the latest apparent attempt on a commander's life in an intense Taliban assassination campaign.

Broken glass and the charred remains of the bomber's car were strewn in a main road in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah after the attack.

Helmand provincial Police Chief Mohammad Nabi Elham sustained only minor injuries when the car bomber struck as he was on his way to his office at about 7 am.

The force of the blast tore off the door of Elham's vehicle. Three police officers travelling in the convoy were wounded, provincial spokesman Ummar Zawaq said.

''Thanks be to God that it was so early in the morning,'' Elham said later in an interview. ''If it had been 8 or 9 in the morning, there would have been labourers here who are building a road for a mosque. Shopkeepers would have been here, and how many people might have been killed?''

Taliban insurgents have been targeting police and civilian officials and attacking government positions around the country as Afghan police and army prepare to officially take over full responsibility for security from international troops.

The toll on Afghan forces has been high, more than doubling from last year's spring and summer fighting season. In May alone, at least 271 police were killed in attacks, and total deaths for all security forces including the army and community-based forces known as the local police was 400 for the month.

At the same time, casualties among the US-led military coalition have been reducing as the international forces pull back to let the Afghans take the lead. In May, 21 Nato troops were killed in the country, down from 44 during the same month last year.

The coalition said that one of its service members died in a non-battle-related incident in southern Afghanistan on Sunday but released no further details. The death brings June's toll for international troops to 20.(Courtesy:Dawn)