
Afghans poised to take security lead from US, NATO
One of the most significant turning points in one of America's longest and costliest wars is imminent: Afghanistan's fledgling security forces are ...
Roadside bomb kills 5 police in Afghanistan
A roadside bomb struck a police van in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing five police as they were on their way to a training session, ...

Afghan Taliban boldly attack on Kabul airport
Seven Taliban fighters with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns launched a rare assault on NATO's operational headquarters at the military ...

Army leaders walk fine line as Afghan advisers
— In previous years, the U.S. Army would have helped the Afghan National Army if their troops had run out of fuel or money or run into some other ...

Insider attack kills 3 Americans in Afghanistan
A man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on American trainers working with him in the country's east on Saturday, killing three of them, ...

Soldier pleads guilty in massacre of 16 Afghans
Seated at a table with his hands folded in front of him, twiddling his thumbs, an American soldier dryly spoke about how he slipped away from his base ...

The Latest: Soldier speaks about Afghan massacre
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the American soldier charged with killing 16 Afghan civilians during nighttime raids on two villages last year, pleaded ...

US, Germany, Italy vow key Afghan roles post-2014
Germany and Italy will join the United States as "lead nations" in regions of Afghanistan after NATO transitions into a noncombat mission there after ...

NATO to discuss post-2014 Afghan war details
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said it will likely be the fall before he is ready to recommend how many troops the U.S. and its allies should ...

Bomb kills 9 Afghan children, 2 US troops
A suicide bomber targeting U.S. troops outside an Afghan government office killed nine children walking home from school and two of the Americans on ...

Lawyer: Soldier to plead guilty in Afghan massacre
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales was "crazed" and "broken" when he slipped away from his remote southern Afghanistan outpost and attacked mud-walled compounds ...
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 ...

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 ...
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 ...

Fighting season is testing ground for Afghan force
Abdul Malik and his fellow Afghan soldiers were driving across the arid and volatile south when their armored personnel carrier struck a roadside bomb

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 ...
Afghanistan: Deadly 24 hours leave 14 police dead
A coordinated Taliban assault on checkpoints in southern Afghanistan killed four police before a counterattack drove the insurgents back, Afghan ...
Karzai seeks Indian military aid amid Pakistan row
Afghan President Hamid Karzai will seek increased military aid from India during a three-day visit starting Monday and will discuss recent ...
Afghan police chief shot dead outside home
Motorcycle-riding gunmen assassinated a police chief in front of his house after he led an anti-Taliban campaign in western Afghanistan, an official ...
UK outlines troop plans in Afghanistan
Some British troops will be serving longer tours of duty as the U.K. prepares to end its combat role in Afghanistan, Britain's defense secretary said ...

Germany: Chancellor Merkel on visit to Afghanistan
Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel made a surprise visit Friday to northern Afghanistan to visit her troops less than two weeks after insurgents ...

Karzai says US can have 9 Afghan bases after 2014
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who has irked Washington with his frequent criticism of American military operations in his country, said Thursday that ...
1 German soldier killed, 1 wounded in Afghanistan
Insurgents in northern Afghanistan have killed a German special forces soldier and wounded a second, the German defense minister said Sunday.

Bodies of 2 US crew found at Kyrgyzstan crash site
Search teams on Saturday found the bodies of two American crew members near where their military refueling plane crashed in the rugged mountains of ...