Relations between the US and Afghanistan's president, Hamid Karzai, came under renewed strain after a senior Congressman highly critical of the Kabul government was barred from entering Afghanistan.
Once a Taliban hub where girls' schools were targeted, Swat has become the paradise it was always supposed to be. Zia Haq writes.
A NATO soldier was killed Friday in a Taliban attack in southern Afghanistan.
The international community will subsidise Afghan security forces by more than $4 billion a year for a decade after US-led combat forces leave Afghanistan in 2014, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday.
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a NATO convoy in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar today, wounding seven people including four soldiers, an official said.
An Afghan official says the death toll from a weekend avalanche that buried an entire village in the northeast of the country has risen to 47 killed.
Six British soldiers were killed when their armoured vehicle was hit by an explosion in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, British military officials said on Wednesday, taking the British toll to 404 since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion to oust the Taliban.
A last-minute agreement has been reached on how to handle the transfer of US detention facilities in Afghanistan to the Kabul government, Afghan and Western officials said Friday.
Sixteen Afghans, nine of them children, were killed by a rogue US soldier who walked off his base and opened fire on them in their homes early Sunday, Afghan and Western sources said.
The United States has pledged a thorough investigation into a killing spree by a rogue US soldier that left 16 Afghans dead, sparking a fresh crisis for US-Afghan relations.
Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents today vowed revenge against "sick minded American savages" for the weekend rampage by a US soldier who killed 16 villagers in their homes.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday called into question Berlin's planned pullout from Afghanistan in 2014 as she visited the war-torn country a day after a US soldier massacred 16 civilians.
The Afghan Taliban threatened today to behead US soldiers in revenge for a shooting spree by a lone American in volatile Kandahar province in which 16 Afghan civilians died.
Gunmen today attacked an Afghan memorial service for 16 villagers killed by a US soldier, shooting dead a member of the Afghan military and wounding a policeman in a hail of gunfire.
An Afghan interpreter driving a hijacked truck targeted US Marines assembled to greet defense secretary Leon Panetta at a military airfield, a military official said on Thursday.