Afghan National Army

Two U.S. Army soldiers were killed Thursday in a firefight against the Islamic State in Afghanistan, a Defence Department official said.

Afghan authorities rushed 150 "dangerous" inmates from a prison in the insurgency-racked southern province of Helmand to the capital Kabul at the weekend, officials said, after Taliban militants orchestrated two major jailbreaks in recent weeks. 

U.S. military personnel rammed into the gate of a medical aid group's hospital in Afghanistan last week to enter the grounds of the building hit in a U.S. air strike earlier this month, a Pentagon spokesman said on Oct. 19.

NATO troops may need to stay in Afghanistan for a longer period and any decision should be based on the situation on the ground, Germany?s defence minister said on Oct. 8 in an implicit criticism of U.S. withdrawal plans. 

Police and residents said Afghan government forces had regained control of most of the besieged city of Kunduz on Oct.5, and some shops in the centre of the provincial capital opened for the first time since it fell to Taliban fighters a week ago. 

Afghan forces clashed with Taliban fighters in Kunduz on Sept. 29 as the government launched an operation to retake the centre of the northern city, the first provincial capital to fall to the insurgents since their movement was toppled 14 years ago.

A US airstrike killed up to 10 Afghan soldiers July 20, at an army checkpoint in a Taliban-infested province south of Kabul, one of the deadliest episodes of "friendly fire" from foreign forces in recent years.

At least six people were killed and 19 were injured when a suicide car bomber targeted a NATO troop convoy in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, the BBC reported.

The Defence Ministry in Sofia said that no Bulgarian troops had been injured in the attack.

The blast took place on the main road to the airport, close to the US embassy and the diplomatic quarter.

No Bulgarian military personnel has been affected by the suicide bombing that claimed the lives of at least three people near Kabul main airport on Sunday morning, the Defence Ministry in Sofia said in a statement.

Two Indians and an American were among five people killed when gunmen stormed a downtown Kabul guesthouse, trapping dozens of people attending a concert and triggering an hours-long standoff with Afghan security forces, officials said May 14.