Afghanistan News

In the crush of people in Kabul's Shahzada money market, conspiracy theories are a currency as hard as the bundles of cash in the hands of bearded traders trying to divine their future.

Pakistan's leading militants have called on fighters not to attack the Pakistani military in their most important sanctuary along the Afghan border.

Gunmen burst into a family home of a provincial judge in eastern Afghanistan, killing him and his niece in the latest assassination of an Afghan government official, authorities said Sunday.

Mohammed Mansoori clears the grave in Kabul of his brother, Qais, who died at age 20 while working as an interpreter for an American contractor.

A tearful surprise reunion was the highlight of the Washington University women's basketball game Friday night, as a freshman player, who thought her father was still in Afghanistan , suddenly saw dad at center court.

PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has dismissed as "untrue propaganda" some claims made by the Afghan soldier who shot three Australian troops last year.

The Taliban have promised to use all their power to kill or capture Prince Harry when the British royal returns to Afghanistan as an Apache helicopter pilot.

Citing an Army lieutenant colonel's claims that there is no progress being made in Afghanistan, Rep.

A Marine based out of Camp Pendleton was awarded the Silver Star on Friday for courageous service during a bloody, six-hour firefight in the war in Afghanistan.

A military jury on Thursday found a Hawaii-based Marine sergeant not guilty of hazing a lance corporal who later committed suicide in Afghanistan.

' Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the Marine Corps on Friday to re-investigate and take appropriate action against the Marine snipers who posed with a logo resembling a notorious Nazi symbol.

Al-Qaida 's decision to formally extend its terror franchise to what once was a nationalist movement in Somalia may only be a desperate joining of hands to prop up two militant groups that are both losing popular support and facing increasingly deadly military attacks, analysts said Friday.

A Mooreville soldier died in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, Tuesday while serving on his third tour of duty.

The officials told The Associated Press that the two were detained in the Pakistani city of Quetta, the alleged base of the Taliban insurgency.

The push by Afghanistan's president to nationalize legions of private security guards before the end of March is encouraging corruption and jeopardizing multibillion-dollar aid projects, according to companies trying to make the switch.

In a court battle testing the impunity long enjoyed by Pakistan's intelligence service, the Pakistani military said Thursday that it wouldn't bring forward seven men who were mysteriously kidnapped from prison in 2010 - allegedly by intelligence agents - because they were in extremely poor health.

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai accused NATO on Thursday of killing a number of children in an airstrike, a case which could stoke tensions between the government and its western backers over a mounting civilian death doll.

The Marine Corps confirmed Thursday that one of its scout sniper teams in Afghanistan posed for a photograph in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS.

At a small shop a stone's throw from the Ghazi Stadium where Afghanistan's former Taliban government used to stage its public executions, Mohammad Hashem is worried about the death of his carpet business.

A poor man sits in a quilt during severe winter in an old part of Rawalpindi city in Pakistan on Tuesday, Feb 7, 2012.