A roadside bomb killed six civilians, including women and children, in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, local officials said today.
US Secretary of Defence Leon Panetta arrived in Kabul today to reaffirm America's commitment to Afghanistan as Washington starts to withdraw combat troops and hand security to Afghan forces.
Voicing cautious optimism, the top Nato commander in Afghanistan said that he's seeing signs of a possible lifting of Pakistan's communications blackout imposed on the US-led coalition after Nato airstrikes killed two dozen Pakistani forces last month.
Afghan and Nato-led coalition forces have killed an Afghan Taliban commander in Kandhar province, the authorities said on Wednesday.
At least 20 people were wounded when a man threw grenades at a police vehicle in eastern Afghanistan today, an official said.
An Afghan official says 11 miners have died in an accident at a coal mine in central Afghanistan.
NATO says one of its helicopters has made a forced landing in southern Afghanistan after taking ground fire.
A suicide bomber killed at least 20 people and wounded 50 in Afghanistan's northern city of Taliqan on Sunday, police said.
The Taliban today rejected as a "show" the endorsement by a traditional assembly of a strategic partnership deal with the United States that could allow its troops to remain in Afghanistan for years.
Four children were killed in an explosion in Afghanistan on Friday, a media report said.
Afghan authorities say insurgents fired two rockets that landed as close as one kilometer from the site where more than 2,000 Afghan elders are attending a national assembly in Kabul.
A Taliban suicide bomber killed seven people returning from prayers at a mosque in north Afghanistan on Sunday, the start of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha, officials said.
Up to 70 Taliban fighters were killed after trying to attack a foreign troop base in eastern Afghanistan, a local official said today.
At least one policeman has been killed in an ongoing suicide attack in eastern Afghanistan's Paktia province on Thursday, an official said.
The Taliban in Afghanistan have published what they claim is a top secret government security plan for a landmark assembly of tribal elders expected to decide on future ties with the US this week.