KABUL – Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape NATO’s exit from Afghanistan, one of the war’s victims, 12-year-old Aleema, sums up her life in three words: “It’s the worst.” Aleema, [...]

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan – Gunmen have kidnapped two foreign women aid workers and their three Afghan colleagues in the remote province of Badakhshan in northeast Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday. “Yesterday evening, five health [...]

KABUL  – The US ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, is to leave his post early for health reasons, US officials said Tuesday, a day after NATO leaders charted a path out of the Afghan war at a summit in Chicago. The veteran diplomat, [...]

KABUL – Two NATO soldiers were killed in an attack in Afghanistan Sunday as alliance leaders gathered in Chicago for a summit dominated by plans to pull troops out of the Afghan war. Two children also died and several civilians were wounded [...]

KHOST, Afghanistan – A suicide bomber struck at a lunch gathering of Afghan police and local civilians in southeast Afghanistan on Saturday killing at least 13 people, three of them policemen, officials said. The attacker, wearing a suicide [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan  – Two NATO soldiers were killed and six others wounded in a rocket attack on their base in Afghanistan’s eastern province of Kunar Friday, an Afghan official with NATO forces said. “Two ISAF soldiers were [...]

HERAT, Afghanistan  – Four attackers launched an assault on the governor’s compound in Afghanistan’s western Farah province on Thursday and were shot dead in a firefight, an official said. “Four suicide attackers who [...]

KABUL  – NATO’s rush to get out of a “quagmire” in Afghanistan risks the collapse of the state and strategic failure for the Western alliance in its decade-long war, a former EU adviser has warned. “The intervention [...]

KABUL  – Afghanistan will start pumping oil for the first time within five months, an official said Wednesday, as part of the nation’s efforts to tap underground treasures estimated to be worth billions. China’s National [...]

KABUL – A remotely-detonated bomb ripped through a bazaar in northwestern Afghanistan on Monday, killing seven civilians, including a provincial councillor, and injuring eight other people, police said. The blast in Ghormach district [...]