A Taliban-type improvised bomb ripped through a bazaar in a remote town in northwestern Afghanistan on Monday, killing seven civilians and injuring eight others, police said.
Seven people were killed and 12 others wounded in a suicide attack on the governor's compound in Afghanistan's western Farah province on Thursday, police said.
An insurgent attack in Afghanistan has killed two members of the international military coalition.
Insurgents remain undefeated, corruption runs rife and the peace process is stuck in the sand. Such is the bleak reality of Afghanistan as leaders of about 60 countries and organizations meet in Chicago to map their way out of an unpopular "war of necessity".
Taliban fighters have destroyed fields of opium poppies in eastern Afghanistan. It is the first time since 2001 that the hardline Islamist group is known to have clamped down on the cultivation of a drug that provides a big part of its funding.
The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, is to leave his post this summer, the embassy in Kabul confirmed today.
Five aid workers, including two Western women doctors, have been kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in northeastern Afghanistan, police and the provincial governor's office said on Wednesday.
French President Francois Hollande arrived in Kabul today for talks with his Afghan counterpart and to tell French troops why he will pull them out of the war-torn country by the end of 2012 -- two years ahead of Nato allies.
Two Afghan officials say a roadside bomb in the country's east has killed 10 members of the local Police.
Relatives of 17 people shot dead in a rampage by a US soldier in southern Afghanistan have been paid tens of thousands of dollars in compensation, a tribal chief and government officials said Sunday.
A Nato official says the two service members shot dead in southern Afghanistan today by a man in an Afghan uniform were British soldiers.
At least 11 Taliban militants were killed, 13 were arrested and 35 surrendered in a countrywide operation in Afghanistan, the interior ministry said today.
An Afghan police officer, who had earlier survived over a dozen attempts on his life by Taliban militants, was killed today along with his bodyguard after his car hit a roadside bomb in a restive southern province.
Twin bomb blasts tore through a local market in northern Afghanistan's Baghlan province today, wounding 18 people, most of them civilians, officials said.
A suicide bomber attacked foreign military forces in northern Afghanistan today, killing at least five people, officials said.