Coalition and Afghan forces killed more than 40 militants in clashes across southern Afghanistan on Saturday, according to the U.S. military.
President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation Thursday into reported civilian casualties from a U.S.-led coalition airstrike in a southern town this week, a senior official said.
Coalition and Afghan forces killed at least 19 Taliban militants during an insurgent attack on a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan, the governor's spokesman said Thursday.
A suicide attacker in a car detonated a bomb near a U.S. military convoy in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing a boy who was playing nearby and wounding three other children, a provincial governor said.
An Afghan drug lord suspected of ties to the Taliban and accused of plotting to poison U.S. neighborhoods with heroin pleaded guilty to a federal drug charge Tuesday.
Coalition and Afghan forces killed an estimated 30 extremists Tuesday in a raid on a hideout in southern Afghanistan, the military said. Coalition aircraft destroyed a helicopter damaged in an emergency landing during the operation.
For 14-year-old Mohammed Salam, his tent school was about all this mud-brick farming village had going for it. That was until suspected Taliban militants burned it to the ground.
When the call to prayer rings out, Muslim faithful converge on the blue-tiled Qaraman-e-Karbala Mosque in the Afghan capital. At the gates, they are politely stopped and those with bags are searched.
A coalition officer died Sunday of wounds suffered in fighting near an opium-rich insurgent stronghold, the military said.
One U.S.-led coalition soldier and five militants were killed in a clash in southern Afghanistan, the coalition said Friday.
As of July 8, 2006, at least 254 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.
Afghan officials destroyed more than 40 tons of confiscated narcotics worth an estimated $500 million on Wednesday in a giant bonfire on the outskirts of Kabul.
Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed 10 suspected militants during several operations aimed at flushing out Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday.
Three bombs exploded Wednesday in the Afghan capital in attacks that targeted buses carrying government workers and security forces, killing one bystander and injuring at least 47 other people, police and witnesses said.
They were soldiers from 21 different countries. But at the end of a short ceremony Tuesday at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, they pledged allegiance to only one: the United States.
A bomb exploded in front of a cinema near the presidential palace in central Kabul on Tuesday, wounding at least four people, police said.
Thirty Afghan men were released Monday from detention at main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, an official said. The men had been held for differing amounts of time from a year or longer, said Syed Sharif Yousafi, spokesman for the national reconciliation commission.
The United States is giving $2 billion worth of military weapons and vehicles to modernize Afghanistan's national army, a U.S. general said Monday.
A small explosion went off Monday in a classroom at a university in western Afghanistan, wounding eight female college students, police said.
A coalition base came under attack by suspected Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, leaving two British soldiers and an interpreter dead, officials said Sunday.
Developments Saturday in Iraq and Afghanistan:
The U.S. military on Saturday said it was investigating the death of a soldier in eastern Afghanistan as a possible "friendly fire incident."
Two rockets fired by insurgents slammed into a coalition base in southern Afghanistan, wounding two Canadian soldiers and several others, a coalition spokesman said Saturday.
The Toyota Corolla careened toward a military convoy and exploded into a huge ball of fire. This time, the bomb detonated too soon and the two attackers only killed themselves.
Two suicide bombers attacked a U.S. military convoy Wednesday in southern Afghanistan, killing only themselves while soldiers escaped unhurt, police said.