KABUL – A NATO airstrike killed eight children in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province northeast of the capital Kabul, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday. The president “strongly condemned the aerial bombing by foreign troops that [...]

KABUL  – Washington’s chief envoy to Afghanistan met Taliban leaders in Qatar as part of US efforts to bring the insurgents to the negotiating table, a senior Afghan official said on Wednesday. The talks between the Taliban and [...]

WASHINGTON – Afghan forces will be “good enough” to take over their country’s security by the end of 2014, even though only a small number of them now operate independently from NATO-led troops, a top US general said [...]

Washington, A United States Admiral says special operations forces in Afghanistan are preparing for a possible expanded role as American forces begin to withdraw after a decade of war. Bill McRaven, the special operations commander who led last [...]

KABUL  – The Afghan government has published new textbooks for schoolchildren that shun the country’s modern history of conflict in an effort to promote national unity, an official said Tuesday. “In the past four decades we [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  – Nine people were killed on Sunday in a suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a bastion of Taliban militancy, government officials said. Seven policemen were among [...]

KABUL – A renegade Afghan soldier who shot dead four French troops paid a bribe to rejoin his country’s army after deserting, the US news website McClatchy said on Saturday. The 21-year-old soldier had already bribed a recruiter [...]

KABUL  – A record number civilians were killed in Afghanistan’s decade-long war last year, with a dramatic rise in the number of deaths from suicide attacks, according to the United Nations. A total of 3,021 civilians died — [...]

KABUL- Sitting cross-legged on a blood-red Afghan carpet in a house perched on a Kabul hillside, the bearded man gazes out across the sprawling city where he was once one of the most feared men in town. Now, Maulavi Qalamuddin, former chief [...]

KABUL- The Taliban militia leading a 10-year insurgency in Afghanistan on Wednesday denied that they would soon hold talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government in Saudi Arabia. “There is no truth in these published reports [...]