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A suicide bomber detonated his explosives at the entrance to a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three Afghan soldiers and one Afghan civilian, a U.S. official said. Complete Story...
A suicide bomber attacked the entrance to a U.S. base Saturday, killing at least four Afghans, a U.S. military official said.
U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops attacked a gathering of Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan, leaving 10 insurgents dead and 14 wounded, an Afghan official said Thursday.
A suicide car bomb went off near a convoy of cars carrying a provincial governor in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, wounding nine people, officials said.
NATO and Afghan troops called in airstrikes during a battle against insurgents in central Afghanistan, killing 20 suspected militants and several civilians, officials said Tuesday.
Suspected Taliban militants fought fierce battles with U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan, killing 20 insurgents and one civilian, officials said Sunday.
Taliban used heavy machine guns and rocket propelled grenades to ambush a U.S.-led coalition patrol in southern Afghanistan that wounded nine troops, a coalition statement said Thursday.
A mother who tried to stop her son from carrying out a suicide bomb attack triggered an explosion in the family's home in southern Afghanistan that killed the would-be bomber, his mother and three siblings, police said Monday.
A German engineer and four Afghans taken hostage in July were freed Wednesday in exchange for five imprisoned criminals, an Afghan official said.
NATO-led and Afghan troops clashed with Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, leaving eight suspected militants dead and three detained, an official said Wednesday.
A roadside bomb exploded next to an Australian armored vehicle in south-central Afghanistan on Monday, the first combat death suffered by Australia's military contingent, the country's government said. A second soldier suffered serious wounds.
Ending a three-year moratorium on the death penalty, Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners by gunfire, including a man convicted of killing three foreign journalists during the U.S.-led invasion, the prisons chief announced Monday.
Japan would scale back its support of the U.S. in Afghanistan by ending naval assistance to vessels involved in ground missions there under a ruling party proposal that officials predicted Sunday would gain parliament's approval.
An Italian intelligence agent who was kidnapped with a colleague in Afghanistan and wounded during a rescue operation died Thursday, the Defense Ministry said.
Taliban militants killed two policemen and destroyed a remote government office in central Afghanistan, while five Dutch troops were wounded in a clash in the country's south, officials said Wednesday.
U.S.-led forces used artillery and airstrikes to kill more than 165 insurgents and repel massed assaults on coalition troops in two strongholds of Taliban militants and Afghanistan's rampant drug trade, officials said Wednesday.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday his government is working very hard on peace talks with the Taliban that would draw the insurgents and their supporters "back to the fold."
NATO troops should take on a greater role fighting the flourishing opium business in Afghanistan, which is helping to fuel the Taliban's insurgency, the head of the United Nations drugs agency said Wednesday.
The U.S. military received "credible reporting" of a sizable Taliban force at Tora Bora in eastern Afghanistan, leading to the latest offensive in that area, a top American general said Thursday.
Democrat Barack Obama said it, the Republican Party pointed out in a screaming headline Tuesday that highlighted the presidential candidate's comments on Afghanistan and the killing of civilians.
Two top Taliban leaders and four South Korean officials met face-to-face Friday in the first negotiations over the fate of 21 members of a church group held hostage for three weeks, Afghan officials said.
More than 600 Pakistani and Afghan tribal leaders convened under a large tent amid tight security in Kabul on Thursday, opening a meeting to discuss rising border violence that has destabilized both countries.
Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world's near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials say.
An erroneous report Wednesday that an operation was under way to rescue 21 South Korean hostages in Afghanistan played widely in the media, raising questions about whether reporting such maneuvers in real time might put the operation itself at risk.
The Afghan army dropped leaflets Wednesday warning of impending military action in the region where Taliban militants are holding 21 South Korean hostages, though the army said the operation is not connected to the captives.
I received this from a trusted friend, an American who lived in Afghanistan for over a year (I won't say exactly how long), worked closely with political leaders there, and has an intimate working knowledge of the twists and turns of Afghan politics.
It's possible that the US Air Force wants more firepower in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda as they skulk in their caves in Afghanistan. But that wouldn't require stealth bombers – the sleek, black-skinned, radar-dodging darts of the US military.
The West has been battling the Taliban for years in Afghanistan. Progress, though, has been difficult to discern. The country may be too fragmented to pacify, but leadership has been lacking as well.
The charges are frankly ridiculous, and certainly are so if proportionality is taken into account. That is, if one bomb was sold by an Iranian arms dealer to the Taliban for profit, a hundred bombs were given to the Taliban by Pakistan for tactical reasons.
In 2004, U.S.-contracted aircraft secretly sprayed harmless plastic granules over poppy fields in Afghanistan to gauge public reaction to using herbicides to kill the opium poppies that help fund the Taliban and al Qaida.
The former United Nations High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina delivered his dire prediction after being proposed as a new "super envoy" role in Afghanistan. Lord Ashdown said: "We have lost, I think, and success is now unlikely."
It's past time for continental Europe to overcome its pacifist mirage and accept that these are dangerous times demanding serious defense sacrifice.
"An Australian soldier from the Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment has been killed in Afghanistan. The Defence Department says the soldier was on patrol in the Oruzgan Province, in southern Afghanistan, when he was severely wounded by small arms fire from Taliban extremists."
Prime Minister Stephen Harper may talk about completing Canada's mission in Afghanistan by 2011 but the head of NATO believes the military alliance will need to remain there for at least a generation.
Canada's top soldier has joined a growing chorus of NATO political and military leaders calling on several European nations to take a bigger role in the war-torn southern provinces of Afghanistan.
The United States is urging its European allies to commit more troops and equipment to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.
For Tech. Sgt. Ralph Binion III, 366th Services Squadron food services, a year-long deployment in Afghanistan is unlike any other deployment he's experienced during his time in the Air Force.
The West's stomach for investing blood and treasure in Afghanistan for another decade is unclear. But I see no alternative.
More than 100,000 pages of newly released government documents ...demonstrate how US military interrogators "abused, tortured or killed" scores of prisoners rounded up since Sept.
The reports have delivered sharply critical judgments about the department's performance in overseeing private security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Looking at the global picture one can find excuses for President George Bush's actions that have led to two small wars the Afghanistan and Iraq campaigns. Much of the problems have been the cause of bad decisions by many previous presidents through out the cold war period.
President Bush's request increased the amount of the proposed spending by $46 billion over the amount already requested this year.
A pair of new reports have delivered scorching judgments about the State Department's performance in overseeing work done by the private companies that the government relies on increasingly in Iraq and Afghanistan to carry out delicate security work and other missions.
In a canyon just outside Kabul, the rocky terrain is strewn with debris symbolizing the troubled past and tenuous future of war-torn Afghanistan. Exploratory cores, drilled decades ago by Soviets probing for minerals, are scattered across a landscape peppered with landmines.
Bush. just sent a supplementary funding bill to congress for basic needs of troops at war, guns, bullets, armored vehicles, body armor. He said this is what the generals recommend as being urgently needed.
With soldiers quitting the army in greater numbers since the Afghan combat mission began and critical shortages in some military trades, it has been a struggle for Canadian commanders to keep generating the forces required for the war against the Taliban.
Neighbourhood residents, however, remain angry that the Taliban brought the war to their doorsteps, especially during the holy month of Ramadan, which ended in the second week of this month. "Those who kill during Ramadan are not Muslims," said Mohamed Saboor, 45.
A group of mediaeval minarets in the Afghan city of Herat could be saved thanks to the closure of a busy road threatening their foundations.
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