Afghanistan News

Four soldiers with the NATO-led Ineternational Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) were killed as a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in Kunduz province north of Afghanistan Monday, said a police official, Xinhua reported.

More than a dozen Afghan mine-clearers abducted in the war-torn country have been released after being kidnapped and robbed at the weekend, officials said Monday, reported AFP.

At least eight people have been wounded in a suicide bombing near a major Nato base in southern Afghanistan, reported BBC.

An airfield guarded by international troops in southern Afghan province of Kandahar was attacked by a suicide bombing early Monday morning, casualties feared, an official said, Xinhua reported.

A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the Defence Ministry said, the fifth to die in five days as UK forces take part in a major U.S.-led offensive against Taliban strongholds, Reuters reported.

All Lance Corporal Seth Sharp ever wanted to be was a marine. He was killed Thursday on the front lines in Afghanistan during Operation Strike of the Sword against the Taliban.

Pakistani fighter jets targeted suspected Taliban hide-outs in a tribal region near Afghanistan on Sunday, killing as many as six people and raising the odds of a future military offensive there, intelligence officials said.

Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with each declaring his determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and repair a badly damaged relationship.

One of the troops injured in the blast that killed a Canadian comrade watched from a wheelchair Saturday as hundreds of his fellow soldiers gathered to say goodbye to Cpl.

There's a new building in town, and it isn't a military barracks or a hospital. It's a Tourist Information Center.

In this May 11, 2009 file photo, soldiers from the U.S. Army First Battalion, 26th Infantry take defensive positions at firebase Restrepo after receiving fire from Taliban positions in the Korengal Valley of Afghanistan's Kunar Province.

A militants, riding an explosive- laden car, blew it up in Paktika province east of Afghanistan Saturday morning, killing one foreign soldier and injuring another Afghan trooper, spokesman of provincial administration Hamidullah Zhawak said, Xinhua reported.

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Pakistan's Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi says that Islamabad will chase terrorists to rid the country of the menace of terrorism, Press TV reported.

A Canadian soldier in Afghanistan's Kandahar province was killed Friday when his armored vehicle struck a roadside bomb seconds after the senior commander of coalition forces in the province narrowly missed the same explosive device, Associated Press reported.

Al Qaeda threatened to "take revenge" on France "by every means and wherever we can reach them" because of a debate in France over whether the burqa, a traditional Islamic woman's covering, violates French law, according to a statement posted on radical Islamist Web sites, reported CNN.

A roadside bomb killing one of the most senior British army officers in Afghanistan has dealt a huge personal blow to the forces stationed in the troubled country, reported Press TV.

U.S. Marines suffered their first casualties of a massive new military campaign Thursday as they engaged in sporadic gunbattles along 55 miles of Taliban-controlled heartland in southern Afghanistan. One Marine was killed and several others were injured or wounded on the first full day of the assault, the largest military operation in Afghanistan since the fall of Taliban government in 2001, reported AP

Two passenger boats overturned, killing 30 people in the Kabul River in Afghanistan's province of Nangahar, Afghan AVA Press news agency reported.

Commerce ministers of Iran and Afghanistan here on Tuesday signed a 17-article memorandum of understanding to promote bilateral trade.