At least 10 civilians were killed when suicide bombers and Taliban insurgents attacked a hotel frequented by Westerners in the Afghan capital.
Taliban insurgents used an eight-year-old girl carrying a bag of explosives to attack a police checkpost in central Afghanistan.
US President Barack Obama announced a plan on Wednesday to start withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan in a first step towards ending the long war.
Industrialised countries’ fears of being flooded by refugees have led to poor countries bearing the brunt of the worlds’ humanitarian crises.
Worrying questions hang over a plan to start switching from Nato to local control in Afghanistan, just weeks before the process is due to start.
The benefits of United States foreign aid for Afghanistan could melt away with a planned US troop withdrawal.
The police chief of northern Afghanistan had been among seven people killed in a suicide bombing at the Takhar governor’s office.
Two explosions shook Kandahar on Saturday while gunmen holed up in a five-storey shopping mall traded fire with security forces.
Al-Qaeda has confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden and said it will soon release an audio tape of their leader, recorded a week before he was killed.
The Taliban declared the start of a spring offensive across Afghanistan on Saturday, warning they would target foreign troops.
An Afghan ex-pilot opened fire after a row at a Kabul training centre on Wednesday, leaving eight US troops and an American contractor dead.
Osama bin Laden and his deputy spent a frantic three months traveling non-stop across Afghanistan after 9/11, according to leaked US military files.
Nearly a decade into the war in Afghanistan, opium poppies are still the major crop for many farmers and a big source of income for the Taliban.
Justice ministry proposes that ceremonies be policed for modesty to crackdown on lavish events that put families in debt.
Al-Qaeda militants are returning to Afghanistan and setting up bases for the first time in years, exploiting a withdrawal of US troops from the area.
At least nine people have been killed in Kandahar, officials said on Saturday, on a second day of violent protests over the burning of a Qur’an.
Afghans protesting the burning of a Qur’an by an obscure US pastor over-ran a UN compound on Friday and killed at least seven international staff.
Afghan protesters killed up to 20 United Nations staff, beheading two foreigners, when they over-ran a compound on Friday.
Female Afghan boxers hoping to make it to the London 2012 Olympics are practising their jabs in a gym where the Taliban publicly executed women.
International forces admitted on Wednesday that they accidentally killed nine Afghan civilians in an air strike.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai angrily criticised foreign forces on Wednesday over civilian deaths.
Swarms of miniature drones, weighing as little as 200g each, are being sought by Britain’s Ministry of Defence for rapid deployment in Afghanistan.
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/ 22 February 2011
A wave of Afghan suicide attacks with civilian casualties shows that insurgents waging a war now in its tenth year are resorting to "soft" targets.
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/ 20 February 2011
Joint operations by Afghan forces and Nato-led foreign troops have killed 64 civilians in eastern Kunar province, including many women and children.
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/ 11 February 2011
A SA photographer’s portrait of an Afghan woman whose husband sliced off her nose and ears won the World Press Photo award on Friday.
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/ 3 February 2011
Injured South African photographer Joao Silva will try on his first pair of prosthetic legs in Washington on Monday, his friend Greg Marinovich said.
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/ 29 January 2011
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle killed the deputy governor of Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province and wounded at least five others on Saturday.
After 9/11, when General Pervez Musharraf chose to ally with the Americans in the "war on terror", it was a fundamental blunder.
A suicide attack inside a public bathhouse in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province on Friday has killed 17 people.
The new United States Congress will examine cutting civilian assistance to Afghanistan as budget-minded lawmakers seek to curb costs.
The US military plans to to deploy a new drone in Afghanistan, which experts say will allow troops to monitor much larger operational theatre.
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/ 30 December 2010
Brigadier general to conduct review of 5th Stryker brigade as evidence emerges of widespread complicity in deaths.