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In this file photo, Taliban militants pray behind their guns during a ceremony in Herat, east Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview airing Monday he is taking steps to root out corruption in his government, but he also said foreign money was making the problem worse, Reuters reported.

The Afghan government has closed the country's schools and universities for most of November in response to an increased number of H1N1 flu cases. Since July, officials have diagnosed nearly 350 people with the virus. There have been a total of 772 confirmed cases, and 10 people have died, VOA reported.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai left for Turkey on Sunday to attend the 25th Economic and Trade Forum of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC), a statement released by his office said, Xinhua reported.

The 200th British soldier has been killed in hostile action in Afghanistan, the British Ministry of Defence announced Sunday, as the country prepared to honor veterans on Remembrance Sunday, CNN reported.

Investigations were under way Sunday into the deaths of seven soldiers and police killed in what Afghan officials called a mis-targeted NATO air strike, one of the worst "friendly fire" incidents of an eight-year war, AFP reported.

An additional 15,800 troops are needed to properly secure Kandahar so that reconstruction efforts and training of the Afghan army can continue, says a conservative U.S. think-tank. A presentation by the American Enterprise Institute, widely circulated among western allies, painted a detailed, bleak picture of the American or NATO resources military ...

As Pakistan's army plows ahead with its offensive in South Waziristan, its success is at risk because the government has yet to come up with a plan to run and rebuild the lawless territory so that the Taliban and al-Qaida don't re-emerge. The Pakistani army launched a ground offensive in the Afghan border region in mid-October, pitting some 30,000 ...

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An Afghan police official says at least two private security guards have been wounded and two fuel tankers set on fire in eastern Afghanistan when militants attacked a supply convoy for NATO forces.

There are few songs as mournful and haunting as Taps played for a fallen warrior, and on an isolated combat outpost in southern Afghanistan it has been sounded for David Baker, a 22-year-old Marine lance corporal who was just six weeks short of going home when he was killed in an explosion.

Maintaining public support is "crucially important" to the success of the international military mission in Afghanistan, the senior British commander in the country has warned.

The killing of five British soldiers by an Afghan policeman must not prevent co-operation between the two nations, the commander of British forces in Afghanistan said.

The casket of Lt. Justin Boyes is taken into church for funeral services in Saskatoon.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Saturday accused critics of U.S. President Barack Obama of foolishly expecting him to fix the world's woes singlehandedly.

For NATO combat troops, Iraq and Afghanistan differ in several important ways. For one thing, nearly all the fighting is out in the countryside.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Friday denied the international body is pulling out of Afghanistan.

Investigators on Friday searched for the motive behind a mass shooting at a sprawling U.S. army base in Texas, in which an army psychiatrist trained to treat war wounded is suspected of killing 13 people.

Canada's top police officer in Afghanistan says more needs to be done to bring the Afghan National Police force up to par.