Afghanistan News

An Afghan legislator says conservative lawmakers have blocked a law that aims to protect women's freedoms, saying parts of it violate Islamic principles.

Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official said Saturday.

Khaled Hosseini at his home in San Jose, Calif., Oct. 18, 2005. His latest book on his homeland is "A Thousand Splendid Suns." Khaled Hosseini at his home in San Jose, Calif., Oct.

A Kentucky veteran who was working as a civilian contractor in Afghanistan has died in an explosion in Kabul that killed at least 15 people including six Americans.

The Navy lieutenant needed armed guards and an armored car to get to an exam site, in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Afghan officials say a car bomb has exploded inside an elite gated community linked to the family of President Hamid Karzai near the southern city of Kandahar.

Australia's elite special forces have ranged far and wide across southern Afghanistan, often carrying out what are called ''kill-capture'' missions against Taliban targets.

Russia, predicting instability once NATO-led troops withdraw from Afghanistan by the end of next year, is considering deploying border guards on the Tajik-Afghan border, Moscow's envoy to Kabul told Reuters in an interview.

KABUL, Afghanistan Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi thumbs excitedly through a brochure prepared for him by Textron, the U.S. defense contractor.

A suicide bomber in a car attacked a convoy of foreign troops in Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 15 people including six Americans, Afghan and foreign officials said, in one of the worst attacks in the Afghan capital in months.

Sitting on a dirty straw mat on the parched ground of southern Afghanistan, Masooma sank deeper inside a giant black shawl.

Two members of Afghanistan's NATO-led force were killed on Thursday when a suicide car bomber attacked their two-car convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul, the force said in a statement.

Last year at this time, there was an alarming rise of "insider attacks" in Afghanistan as supposed Afghan allies turned their weapons on coalition forces, particularly U.S. troops.

A suicide car bomber targeted a convoy of coalition forces in Kabul on Thursday morning, leaving six civilians dead, the Interior Ministry said.

A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least six people in the explosion and wounding more than 30, police and hospital officials said.

A new offensive by the Pakistani military against militants in a northwestern tribal area has displaced thousands of people in the past week, an official said Wednesday.

Heavy rainfall has caused a series of flash floods across northern Afghanistan. On 16 April 2013, Balkh province was hit affecting the districts of Kishindih, Sholgara and Nahri Shai where more than 1,200 homes have been completely destroyed and at least 1,400 damaged.

Campaigners are calling for a 23-year-old failed Afghani asylum-seeker to be allowed to remain in Leicester, saying he will be killed if he is deported.

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel with U.S. troops in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 11.

In this file photo, US soldiers belonging to the 2nd Platoon Bravo Company, 1-3271 Infantry of Combined Team Bastogne , 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division stationed at the forward operating Base Finley Shields along with Afghan Local Police climb a hillock to access a threat to Surech check post during a patrol in Kush Kunar District ... (more)