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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A combined Afghan and coalition force killed a suspected insurgent leader in eastern Afghanistan, NATO officials said on Saturday. The man was believed to be a former [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The beleaguered election commission here declared on Sunday, after months of intense political pressure, that it would change the results of the latest parliamentary elections. The Independent [...]

CHARIKAR, Afghanistan -- The governor of Parwan Province, Abdul Basir Salangi, convened a meeting Sunday morning with his top aides to find out why security had not been improved around [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a startling reversal on Wednesday, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan annulled a special court that he had set up to review the results of the 2010 [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A close adviser to President Hamid Karzai was killed on Sunday night after two gunmen stormed his walled home here. It was the second killing in less [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The United States military has recovered the body of the second of two American sailors abducted last week in a dangerous region south of Kabul, but it [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents used a prison break, a suicide attack and homemade bombs on Sunday to make their presence felt just two days before a major international conference that [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Eleven police officers and a district governor were killed in three separate attacks by the Taliban in northeast Afghanistan, NATO and local officials said Sunday. Two attacks [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan Parliament confirmed five nominees for cabinet posts Monday, leaving six slots vacant. This was the third effort by President Hamid Karzai to fill his 25-member [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government suspended the operations of two church-based relief groups on Monday over suspicions that they were involved in converting Afghans to Christianity, even [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence agency on Monday accused Pakistan's intelligence agency of involvement in the suicide bombing here last week that killed six NATO soldiers, including [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Hospital for Interior Ministry Addicts is both a symptom of how bad this country's drug addiction problem is, and a possible solution for one of its [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Four men from a village militia set up by American troops in western Afghanistan were killed on Saturday, and they may have been beheaded by Taliban militants, [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Seven people were killed Sunday evening when a bus struck a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan near the border with Pakistan, the latest casualties in Afghanistan's rising [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials investigating the deaths of five Afghan civilians gunned down in February during a bungled raid by American Special Operations forces believe that troops tampered with [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Iranian president visited Kabul on Wednesday and shot back at American allegations that Iran was providing support to Afghan insurgents, accusing the United States of playing [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The departing head of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, Kai Eide, warned Thursday that if negative trends were not reversed, there would be little that could [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Minute-by-minute news coverage by Afghan television stations of two recent suicide attacks proved an embarrassment for the government, showing that it could not stop militants from penetrating [...]

An Australian security contractor working for an American company has been sentenced to death by an Afghan court for murdering a colleague and then trying to cover up the crime [...]

A Taliban suicide bomber wounded eight American soldiers in Kabul on Tuesday afternoon, in what appeared to be an attack on their convoy during the evening rush just outside the [...]

A suicide bomber attacking a pro-government militia commander detonated his bomb-laden vest in a southeastern provincial capital, Gardez, on Thursday, and witnesses said he killed 10 people and wounded 27, [...]

For much of this country's history, the Hazara were typically servants, cleaners, porters and little else, a largely Shiite minority sidelined for generations, and in some instances massacred, by Pashtun [...]

The killing of at least nine men in a remote valley of eastern Afghanistan by a joint operation of Afghan and American forces put President Hamid Karzai and senior NATO […]

President Hamid Karzai is expected to send Parliament a list of cabinet nominees on Saturday that tries to balance Western demands for an honest government against those of warlords seeking [...]

President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan faces a decisive test of his pledge to reduce corruption and cronyism when he names members of his new government as early as Tuesday, Afghan […]

A top United Nations official acknowledged publicly for the first time on Sunday that the country's presidential election had been marred by 'widespread fraud,' but said he has worked to […]

A car packed with explosives blew up beside the Indian Embassy on Thursday morning, leaving 17 people dead in what India's foreign secretary said was a direct attack on the […]

An intercity bus crowded with passengers struck a roadside bomb in the contested southern province of Kandahar on Tuesday and exploded, killing 30 civilians and wounding 39 others, the Interior […]

Afghan security forces raided a medical clinic in eastern Afghanistan late Wednesday, capturing a Taliban commander who had been wounded in attacks during last week's presidential election, Afghan officials said […]

Taliban gunmen and suicide bombers seized a five-story building in this provincial capital on Monday, fighting Afghan and American forces for several hours in a battle that left at least […]

Five American servicemen died Thursday, four of them in a single strike by a roadside bomb, making it one of the bloodiest single attacks against American service members in recent […]

A bomb exploded near a police convoy on Monday morning in Herat, the main city in western Afghanistan, killing at least 10 people and wounding 29 others. The Taliban claimed […]

President Hamid Karzai flew into this remote valley in Afghanistan's central highlands Saturday to seek the vote from the Ismaili community, on his second campaign rally outside the capital ahead […]

President Hamid Karzai backed out of a live televised debate with two of his leading opponents on Thursday, saying that he had not been given enough time to prepare and […]

A huge truck explosion Thursday killed 24 people, including 16 children, in a town south of Kabul, local officials said, and Afghan news media reported that a district along the […]

Three separate episodes in different parts of the country made Monday the deadliest day for American forces in Afghanistan in nearly a year. In all, seven United States soldiers were […]

A suicide bomber driving a motorcycle detonated his explosives near a densely crowded traffic intersection in the eastern city of Khost on Monday, killing 7 Afghan civilians and wounding 44, […]

American military and Afghan government officials said Wednesday that a roadside bomb on Tuesday killed eight Afghan contract employees who work with American troops in southeastern Afghanistan. The Afghans, who […]

American and Afghan forces backed by airstrikes engaged in a 'fierce firefight' with Taliban insurgents in a remote and mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least 29 […]

A suicide car bomber plowed into a NATO convoy on a main road north of Kabul on Tuesday morning, killing three American soldiers and three Afghan civilians, according to Afghan […]

A brother of President Hamid Karzai said he narrowly escaped assassination Monday morning by Taliban attackers lying in wait for his motorcade while it traveled from the eastern city of […]

A suicide attacker exploded a car bomb on Wednesday near the main gate of an American base outside the eastern city of Khost, killing 7 civilian laborers and wounding 21, […]

Disguised in Afghan Army uniforms and a burqa, Taliban fighters carried out coordinated attacks in eastern Afghanistan Tuesday, leaving at least nine people dead after a daylong hostage siege and […]

Forty-four candidates submitted nominations to run for president before the close of registration on Friday, a field full of people who served under President Hamid Karzai but have since broken […]

President Hamid Karzai named a powerful former warlord as one of his two vice-presidential running mates on Monday, a day of scattered insurgent attacks that left as many as 26 […]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Removing one of the toughest potential obstacles to President Hamid Karzai's re-election campaign, the popular governor of Nangarhar Province, Gul Agha Shirzai, announced Saturday that he would […]

An airstrike by NATO forces early Monday in mountainous eastern Afghanistan killed six civilians, including two children, a local Afghan official said, the latest accusation of civilian casualties leveled against […]

Nine Afghan police officers were killed and six others were wounded in two attacks by Taliban insurgents in southern and central Afghanistan on Thursday, the Interior Ministry said. The attacks […]

A senior Taliban leader responsible for numerous roadside bombings and suicide attacks against NATO forces has been killed along with nine other insurgent fighters, NATO said Monday. Maulawi Hassan, described […]

A predawn raid by United States Special Forces that killed five people on Sunday has produced sharply conflicting accounts from the American military and local Afghan officials as to whether […]