Shum Khan was a deaf and dumb man who lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7 000ft up in the mountains.
Iran is engaged in a covert campaign to arm, finance, train and equip Taliban insurgents, Afghan warlords allied to al-Qaeda and suicide bombers.
Julian Assange is self-consciously an individual. He thinks in his own way, primarily as a physicist, having studied pure maths and physics.
From a United States base near Baghdad to a café in Brussels, how thousands of classified papers found their way to online activists.
It begins with a relative trickle in the east of Afghanistan in 2004. Five years later it is the Taliban’s favoured weapon across the country.
More Nato troops will die in Afghanistan this year, a US officer said, as a report emerged implicating Pakistan for collaborating with the insurgency.
Jacob Evans had no hint of the mine that ripped into his legs. Neither did his dog, nor the US patrol that had already walked over the buried charge.
They fly at 50 000ft, are virtually invisible and carry a deadly payload of missiles and bombs. Meet the Reaper, a new variety of heavily armed drone.
Pakistan is cooperating more with US-backed Afghan peace efforts but not to the extent sought by Washington, said US envoy for Afghanistan.
This week’s international conference in the Afghan capital of Kabul finally put dialogue with the Taliban on the agenda.
Afghans want responsibility for the country’s security by 2014, President Hamid Karzai told an international donors’ conference on Tuesday.
The murder of three soldiers by a renegade Afghan casts a shadow over the UK’s plans to train the local army before withdrawing its own troops.
If his record in Iraq and elsewhere is anything to go by, General David Petraeus is not accustomed to losing.
United States President Barack Obama has one man and one year left to win in Afghanistan. And this week, that man warned about the year ahead.
Barack Obama has sacked the US commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, following disparaging comments made by McChrystal.
US President Barack Obama will confront his top Afghanistan commander on Wednesday before deciding whether to fire him over inflammatory comments.
Nato blamed the Taliban on Thursday over an attack on an Afghan wedding that killed more than 40 people.
Al-Qaeda said its number three leader and Osama bin Laden’s one-time top money man, Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, has been killed.
There is, said the American secretary of defence, no certainty "that a conventional military victory, as commonly defined, can be achieved here".
Afghan and Nato rescuers on Tuesday located the area where an Afghan passenger plane crashed with 43 people on board.
A local Pamir Airways plane with 38 passengers and five crew on board crashed in Afghanistan on Monday, officials said.
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met on Monday and vowed to tackle militant violence.
As training jobs go, United States Colonel Bernard Mater’s task of mentoring the fledgling Afghan air force is among the more daunting ones.
A by a US president requires careful planning, but sneaking him into Afghanistan — a country in the midst of an eight-year war — is a special case.
Like farmers the world over Haji Afzal has locked in the price for his crop. Afzal was paid $5 000 by a middleman for a drugs cartel.
Taliban suicide bombers struck across Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar on Saturday, killing at least 35 people and wounding scores.
Corporal Jacob Turbett gave out a single groan of pain before the Taliban bullet, which had pierced his heart, ended his life.
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/ 26 February 2010
At least 14 people were killed and 32 wounded in Taliban attacks in Kabul on Friday, the latest audacious assault in the Afghan capital.
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/ 25 February 2010
The Afghan flag was raised over a town at the centre of a United States-led offensive to capture a key Taliban stronghold on Thursday.
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/ 18 February 2010
Taliban insurgents are using civilians as human shields against the United States-led attack, a senior Afghan commander said on Wednesday.
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/ 13 February 2010
US-led Nato troops launched an offensive on Saturday against the Taliban’s last big stronghold in Afghanistan’s most violent province.
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/ 12 February 2010
US-led troops on Friday dropped leaflets warning Afghans not to shelter the Taliban as the troops prepared to assault a key insurgent bastion.