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.
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.
The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, is to leave his post this summer, the embassy in Kabul confirmed today.
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.
US President Barack Obama on Sunday met his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai to discuss transition in Afganistan post-2014 during which both sides agreed that there would be days of hardship ahead.
US defence secretary Leon Panetta has met his British counterpart Philip Hammond and discussed the importance of supporting a sustainable Afghan national security force, the Pentagon said.
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".
An insurgent attack in Afghanistan has killed two members of the international military coalition.
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.
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.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday announced a new transfer of security control from NATO that will see local forces take responsibility for 75 percent of Afghanistan's population.
A gunman shot dead a top member of the Afghan peace council Sunday at a traffic intersection in the nation’s capital, police said. The assassination strikes another blow to efforts to negotiate a political resolution to the decade-long war.
A flash flood swept through villages in a mountainous area of northern Afghanistan on Friday, killing at least 17 people, authorities said.
A man dressed in Afghan army uniform opened fire at NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan today, killing one service member, the military said.
Nato forces in Afghanistan today admitted responsibility for the deaths of a civilian family of six in an airstrike in the southern province of Helmand last week.