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Seven U.S. military trainers were wounded on Sunday when protesters in Kunduz in northern Afghanistan threw a grenade at their base, provincial police chief Samihullah Qatra told reporters.
A gunman killed two American military advisers with shots to the back of the head Saturday inside a heavily guarded ministry building
Half a million Afghans displaced by war have been left homeless and struggling to survive because of government and international neglect, Amnesty International said Thursday. Around 400 people join makeshift shelters around the country every day,
The U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan sent a top-secret cable to Washington last month warning that the persistence of enemy havens in Pakistan was placing the success of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan in jeopardy, U.S. officials said.
At least six people have been killed amid ongoing violence over the improper disposal of Qurans at NATO's main base in Afghanistan.
Jamil said U.S. soldiers were at first willing to allow them to take away the charred remains of the Korans, explaining how some parts made their way outside the base, but said arriving Afghan interpreters immediately realized the material could inci
The Nato commander in Afghanistan has apologised over reports foreign troops may have burnt copies of the Koran.
The American military in Afghanistan doesn’t want to talk about it, but one day soon, it will be a new hub for the American drone war in the Greater Middle East.
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. And the theory going around - amid the din of shouted exchang
A US Marine sniper team posed with a flag emblazoned with the symbol of the Nazi SS while on duty in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has admitted.
"I saw the incredible difficulties any military force would have to pacify even a single area of any of those provinces; I heard many stories of how insurgents controlled virtually every piece of land beyond eyeshot of a U.S. or International Securi
The CIA’s drone campaign in Pakistan has killed dozens of civilians who had gone to help rescue victims or were attending funerals. Just days after President Obama claimed that the drone campaign in Pakistan was a “targeted, focused effort” that “ha
On his second yearlong deployment to Afghanistan, Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis traveled 9,000 miles, patrolled with American troops in eight provinces and returned in October of last year with a fervent conviction that the war was going disastrously and
The United States hopes to end its combat mission in Afghanistan by the middle of next year, more than a year earlier than scheduled, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta said Wednesday.
A leaked NATO report has provided further evidence that Pakistan's ISI security service has been helping the Taliban. The report, which will further strain ties between Western powers and Islamabad, is the result of interrogations of thousands of
Pakistan’s military issued an uncompromising formal rejection on Monday of the United States report last month on a contentious border exchange of fire that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, dealing a fresh blow to American hopes of reviving a troubled s
A new book says friends encouraged Gen. David Petraeus to resign over President Obama's decision to quickly withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
Kabul agrees to Taliban liaison office in Qatar to start peace talks
Afghan President Karzai demanded an immediate halt to controversial NATO-led night raids and for foreign forces to stop entering Afghan homes. The comments come after NATO defended the operations as the safest way of targeting insurgent leaders, insi
Despite denials and false statistics from US-NATO, night raids kill thousands of civilians
After 10 months of secret dialogue with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, senior U.S. officials say the talks have reached a critical juncture and they will soon know whether a breakthrough is possible, leading to peace talks whose ultimate goal is t
After 10 years of inconclusive war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta declared during a visit here Wednesday that “we’re winning” — but his burst of optimism proved short-lived.
The United States on Sunday vacated a Pakistani airbase following a deadline given by Islamabad in the wake of anger over NATO air strikes last month that killed 24 soldiers, officials said. Pakistan’s military said in a statement that the last fl
Barely two weeks after a NATO helicopter disaster killed 24 Pakistani troops, the skies above the Afghanistan-Pakistan border may get even more dangerous.
President Karzai called for political and military support for at least another decade — and financial assistance that would not end until 2030. Nearly 3 decades after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 that led to the intervention in Afghanistan.
NATO recently literally shot itself in the foot, imperiling the resupply of International Assistance Forces in Afghanistan by shooting up two Pakistani border posts in a hot pursuit raid.
Pakistan said Saturday it would block NATO’s supply route into Afghanistan after an air raid near the Afghan border killed at least 26 Pakistani troops. It is the deadliest incident Islamabad has reported in the decade-long US-led war in Afghanistan.
Says Turkish Army Has 'Track Record' of Maintaining Peace
Ayman al-Zawahiri and his second in command, Abu Yahya al-Libi, are the last remaining “high-value” targets of the CIA’s drone campaign against al-Qaeda in Pakistan, U.S. officials said, although lower-level fighters and other insurgent groups remain
Foreign forces fighting in Afghanistan have become more accurate in night-time raids on homes, but they have stepped up the number and scope of the controversial operations so they affect more Afghan civilians. NATO-led troops have improved the way t
