A French photographer has been freed more than three months after being taken hostage in Afghanistan, the interior ministry said today.
A roadside bomb in Afghanistan exploded under a bus on Monday, killing nine people and wounding at least 22 others in an attack by suspected Taliban militants, officials said.
The death of six Americans in the deadliest day this year for foreigners in Afghanistan has highlighted fears about the Taliban’s rising strength ahead of NATO’s withdrawal in 2014.
Eleven children and a woman were killed by an air strike during a NATO operation targeting Taliban commanders in eastern Afghanistan, officials in the region said today.
Six Nato personnel including a female US diplomat were killed on Saturday in two separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials said, in the deadliest day for foreign forces in 2013.
Six American troops and civilians and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks today in southern and eastern Afghanistan as the US military's top officer began a weekend visit to the country, officials said.
Officials say a suicide bomber has targeted a provincial governor's convoy near a hospital in southern Afghanistan.
A bomb strapped to the back of a donkey killed one policeman and wounded three civilians in eastern Afghanistan today, officials said.
A NATO air strike killed four Afghan police officials and two civilians on Thursday, Afghan officials said.
Taliban gunmen who killed 46 people at an Afghan court complex in a bid to free insurgents standing trial moved ruthlessly from room to room, shooting everyone they found, officials recounted Thursday.
Western hopes of leaving Afghanistan within reach of a peace deal when Nato troops pull out in 2014 are dimming, with planned negotiations in Qatar at a stalemate and Pakistan demanding that Afghanistan, for example, sever all ties with India in return for supporting the talks.
At least 44 people were killed by Taliban militants who stormed an Afghan court complex today in an apparent attempt to free insurgents standing trial, officials said.
A NATO helicopter supporting Afghan security forces killed two children and nine suspected Taliban fighters today, officials said.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai travelled to Qatar today to discuss Taliban militants opening an office in the Gulf state for peace talks that could end more than a decade of war.
A senior US commander says American special operations forces have handed over their base in eastern Afghanistan's Nirkh district to local Afghan commandos meeting a demand by Afghan President Hamid Karzai that US forces withdraw from the district.