Jowzjan, Afghanistan News

Afghan President Hamid Karzai speaks at a press conference during a ceremony at a military academy on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 18. Karzai suspended talks with the US over a new Status of Forces Agreement, furious that America might be involved in peace talks with a Taliban in Qatar.

The governor of Afghanistan's northern Jowzjan Province says his house has been attacked by ethnic Uzbek commander Abdul Rashid Dostum's militia.

Afghan police and army backed by the NATO-led coalition forces have eliminated 27 Taliban militants and detained 25 others in operations since Saturday morning, said the Afghan Interior Ministry on Sunday.

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In this Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2012 file photo, Sgt. Brandon Morgan, right, kisses his partner, Dalan Wells, in a helicopter hangar at the Marine base in Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii upon returning from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan.

Returning home from a six-month deployment in Afghanistan last year, Morgan was met on the tarmac by his boyfriend, Wells, an artist.

Militancy and counter-militancy have claimed the lives of 88 people with majority of them Taliban fighters over the past two days in the conflict-ridden Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.

A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested a Taliban facilitator in the Chimtal district of Afghanistan's Balkh province yesterday, military officials reported.

A combined Afghan and coalition security force arrested an insurgent during a search for a Taliban facilitator in Kandahar province's capital of Kandahar today, military officials reported.

A combined Afghan and coalition security force in the Zurmat district of Afghanistan's Paktiya province today killed an insurgent and arrested four others during a search for a Haqqani network leader who participates in kidnappings throughout the province, military officials reported.