The Afghan government has praised its security forces for beating back a Taliban assault on central Kabul that left seven dead.
Afghanistan’s Parliament failed to pass a law banning violence against women, a severe blow to progress made in women’s rights in the country.
A suicide attack has claimed six lives and air attacks have killed 10 children over a weekend that served as a reminder of Afghanistan’s conflict.
A car bomb blast killed five Americans in Afghanistan, including three US soldiers and a young diplomat on Saturday.
Actor Angelina Jolie has opened another girls school in Afghanistan and plans to fund more from the proceeds of a jewellery line.
President Hamid Karzai has said that the US would hand over a final group of Afghan prisoners, signalling a breakthrough in disputes with Washington.
Soosan Feroz is a surprising new phenomenon in the conservative Islamic country — the nation’s first female rapper.
A lone shooter could not have committed the massacre of 16 Afghan villagers blamed on a US soldier, a witness has testified.
In Afghanistan, where US troops are fighting in America’s longest conflict, the re-election of President Barack Obama was met with a war-weary shrug.
For all its failings, the military remains effective in one regard: instilling fear. And striking workers at Marikana felt that fear this week.
Prominent members of SA’s Muslim community have condemned this week’s suicide bomb attack in Kabul that claimed the lives of eight South Africans.
The "global war on terror" and its awful sequelae seem very far away to most South Africans.
Washington says it’s deploying forces to cope with violence in as many as 18 different locations as deadly Muslim anger spreads over a US-made movie.
A genuine dialogue with the mullahs is essential if stability is to gain a foothold in Afghanistan, writes Matt Waldman.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives near the heavily barricaded Nato headquarters in Kabul on Saturday, Nato and local officials said.
Three US Marines have been shot dead by an Afghan worker on a military base in southern Afghanistan, in a deadly 24 hours for Nato-led forces.
A suicide bomber blew himself up at a wedding reception in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 40 others.
A senior commander of the Taliban has offered a pragmatic view on the futility of the war and the future of Afghanistan. Julian Borger reports.
The Afghan central bank says at least $6-billion a year in new investment will be needed to foster economic growth.
Obama’s decision meets a pledge he made on a visit to Afghanistan to upgrade Kabul to a security status given to only a limited number of US partners.
The US is so fed up with Pakistan’s failure to stop militant attacks on Americans in Afghanistan that it has considered launching secret raids.
At least four French soldiers were killed and several wounded in a suicide attack against a convoy of Nato-led troops in eastern Afghanistan.
Seven members of an Afghan family were killed in a Nato airstrike in eastern Afghanistan, local authorities said on Sunday.
US President Obama has marked the anniversary of Bin Laden’s death with a surprise visit to Kabul, where he said the end of the war is in plain sight.
Photographer Massoud Hossaini has won a Pulitzer for what was called a "heartbreaking image of a girl crying in fear after a suicide bomber’s attack".
Afghanistan says its regained control of Kabul, killing all the Taliban militants who launched one of the biggest attacks on the city in a decade.
The UK is preparing to pull 1 500 troops out of Afghanistan next year before rapidly accelerating its withdrawal at the beginning of 2014.
US soldier Robert Bales is expected to have 17 counts and murder and six counts of attempted murder charged against him for a massacre in Afghanistan.
Sadaf Rahimi has gone against tradition and is the only female member of Afghanistan’s national Olympic team. She is a boxer.
The US Army has identified the soldier implicated in the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan this week as staff sergeant Robert Bale.
Afghan lawmakers have demanded that a US soldier who killed women and children in a shooting rampage should be put on public trial in the country.
Sixteen Afghans, including women and children, have been killed by a rogue US soldier who walked off his base and opened fire on them in their homes.