Afghanistan News

The Afghan capital has been experiencing its worst cold-snap and heaviest snows in at least 15 years, the National Weather Center said Wednesday.

Afghan men walk past American soldiers in Ghazni province on Thursday. U.S. and Afghan officials are in talks that will determine how many American troops stay in Afghanistan after the NATO mission ends in 2014.

U.S. drone-fired missiles hit a house in Pakistan's northwest tribal region near the Afghan border on Wednesday, killing nine people, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii - A sergeant singled out a member of his squad at their patrol base in Afghanistan, a military prosecutor said Tuesday at the start of the military trial of a Hawaii-based Marine accused of hazing a fellow Marine who later committed suicide in Afghanistan.

A SOUTH Yorkshire soldier who died in a massive Taliban bomb blast in Afghanistan was unlawfully killed, an inquest has ruled.

A member of the Afghan Honor Guard helps brush away debris on the carpet for the arrival ceremony for U.S. Sec.

As of Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2012, at least 1,769 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

Adm. Bill McRaven said Tuesday that special operations forces in Afghanistan are preparing for a possible expanded role as overall U.S. forces begin to draw down after a decade of war.

Dwindling development aid as the war winds down in Afghanistan means child labour in the impoverished country is at risk of becoming more widespread, the International Labour Organisation warned on Tuesday.

An Afghan official says a shooting in the southern city of Kandahar has left five dead, including two police officers and three private security guards.

Safa, an 8-year-old Afghan girl, got a prosthetic leg and a doll thanks to donations from students at Grace Christian School in Stamford.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan said a coalition government must be set up in Kabul or there would be more bloodshed when Western troops pulled out.

In this November 2011 file photo, Afghans watch the scene of a roadside bomb in Laghman, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle at a police parking lot in central Kandahar on Sunday, killing at least seven people, including five police officers and a child, in the fourth attempted or successful suicide bombing there in less than a month.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will brief the Qatar leadership about Pakistan's talks with Afghanistan during a three-day official visit to Qatar, a country where the Taliban is to open a political office.

A second Marine is going to trial for allegedly hazing a fellow Marine who later fatally shot himself in Afghanistan.

They won't all make it. Never in all of my life will I forget the freezing 2006/08 winter in Afghanistan.

An Afghan woman clad in burqa is carried in a wheelbarrow to a bus station, as the ground is covered with snow in Kabul.

A one-star U.S. Army general from Fairfax County was found dead in his Kabul sleeping quarters on Friday, and Defense Department officials said he is the highest-ranking officer to die during the war in Afghanistan .

Kabul, Feb 5: At least four people were killed and six injured after an avalanche hit some villages in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, Xinhua reported Sunday.