Afghanistan

Afghanistan

• Russia arrests suspect in foiled terror attacks

  Russia's counter-terrorism agency says special forces arrested a man Thursday who is accused of planning a terrorist attack on Moscow that the agency ... 

• UK: Afghan interpreters can relocate to Britain

  Britain's Defense Ministry has confirmed plans to give some 600 Afghan interpreters who worked alongside its troops the right to settle in the U.K. 

• Afghan Taliban kill 4 police in checkpoint attacks

  Taliban insurgents attacked two checkpoints in eastern Afghanistan, killing four police officers in the latest test of Afghan forces' abilities as ... 

• 3 NATO service members killed in Afghanistan

  NATO says three of its service members and one civilian working with the international coalition in Afghanistan have been killed in three separate ... 

• Report: Afghan Taliban delegation visits Iran

  A semi-official Iranian news agency says Tehran has hosted a delegation of the Afghan Taliban, the radical Sunni group that has long been a sworn ... 

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  Ex-general wants post-2014 troop levels announced

  The former top U.S. commander in Afghanistan called on the White House Friday to announce how many troops it intends to leave in that country after ... 

• Obama: NATO to hold Afghanistan summit next year

  President Barack Obama says he and the secretary-general of NATO have agreed to focus the organization's 2014 summit on Afghanistan. Most of the ... 

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  Taliban deny attacking Red Cross in Afghanistan

  The Taliban on Friday denied any role in this week's attack on an International Committee of the Red Cross compound in eastern Afghanistan, saying ... 

• Drone strike comes despite transparency pledge

  The drone attack that killed a Pakistan Taliban deputy leader this week was a clear signal that despite President Barack Obama's promise last week of ... 

• Military probing Taliban attack that killed 2

  The U.S. military has begun to investigate a Taliban attack on a U.S.-British base in Afghanistan last September that killed two Marines and destroyed ... 

• Afghans claim 6 arrested in Kabul attack plot

  Afghan intelligence agents captured six militants with suicide vests and heavy weaponry who were planning a major attack in Kabul, an official said ... 

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  Top Pakistan militant said killed in US strike

  A suspected U.S. drone strike killed the No. 2 commander of the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday, Pakistani intelligence officials said, although the ... 

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  Afghan security rescues 7 Red Cross staffers

  Two insurgents attacked a compound housing the International Committee of the Red Cross in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing an Afghan guard ... 

• Bundeswehr: Afghan police fled from Taliban battle

  The German military says its analysis of a firefight with the Taliban in Afghanistan in which one of its special-forces soldiers was killed indicates ... 

• UK rejects claims of illegal detention of Afghans

  Britain's defense minister says that up to 90 Afghan nationals are being detained in a holding facility at Camp Bastion in southern Afghanistan, but ... 

• 7 Afghan police killed in insider attack

  Two recently rehired Afghan police opened fire on their commander at a checkpoint in a remote district in the country's south, killing him and six of ... 

• Bomb hits Afghan lawmaker's convoy, 5 dead

  An Afghan lawmaker says a roadside bomb under a bridge has hit his convoy on a major highway north of Kabul, killing five people. Obaidullah Ramin, ... 

• NATO service member killed in Afghanistan

  An insurgent attack in eastern Afghanistan has killed a NATO service member, the coalition said. The U.S.-led military coalition says the service ... 

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  Afghan police rescued aid workers trapped in siege

  Ten terrified international aid workers huddled inside a fortified room in Kabul for two hours during a Taliban attack until they were rescued by ... 

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  Suicide bomber dies in blast in Afghan capital

  A would-be suicide bomber died when his explosives-rigged vest went off prematurely in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday morning, police said. 

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  Balloons bring smiles in war-weary Afghan capital

  Artists and activists handed out 10,000 bright pink balloons to residents in Afghanistan's war-weary capital on Saturday, bringing smiles to surprised ... 

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  Afghan Taliban attack aid group, 2 guards killed

  In the latest militant strike on the Afghan capital, Taliban gunmen backed by a suicide car bomber attacked an international aid group's compound on ... 

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  Obama sees narrower terror threat, defends drones

  President Barack Obama sought Thursday to advance the U.S. beyond the unrelenting war effort of the past dozen years, defining a narrower terror ...