Bombs, clashes with Karzai mar Hagel's Afghan trip
Two suicide bombings and a host of looming disagreements with the Afghan president cast a shadow on Saturday over U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's ...
Pentagon chief Hagel makes 1st trip to Afghanistan
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Afghanistan Friday for his first visit as Pentagon chief, saying that there are plenty of challenges ahead ...
Contractor killed in attack in eastern Afghanistan
Three men wearing Afghan army uniforms and driving an Afghan army vehicle forced their way onto a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Friday and ...
Karzai calls on Afghan troops to clean up own act
The Afghan president on Wednesday called on his security forces to end incidents of torture and abuse of the Afghan people, a shift from past speeches ...
Taliban attack trends: Never mind
The U.S.-led military command in Afghanistan will no longer count and publish the number of Taliban attacks, a statistical measure that it once touted ...
US general sought larger US force in Afghanistan
The top U.S. military commander in the Middle East told senators for the first time Tuesday that he had envisioned keeping about 20,000 troops in ...
NATO chief backs larger Afghan force through 2018
Afghanistan's president got reassurance Tuesday that NATO intends to backstop his troubled nation's security long beyond 2014, after NATO's chief ...
Taliban kill 17 Afghans in attack in east
Taliban insurgents poisoned, then shot and killed 17 people as they slept at a local police post in eastern Afghanistan, one of two attacks in as many ...
Australian Muslim activists lose free speech case
Australia's highest court on Wednesday narrowly rejected the case of two Muslim activists who argued they had a constitutional free-speech right to ...
Suicide bomber attacks Afghan army bus; 7 wounded
A man wearing a black overcoat and carrying an umbrella as a shelter against the heavy snow crossed a street in the Afghan capital early Wednesday ...
APNewsBreak: Taliban attacks not down after all
The American-led military coalition in Afghanistan backed off Tuesday from its claim that Taliban attacks dropped off in 2012, tacitly acknowledging ...
Up to 12,000 US, allied troops for Afghanistan
The U.S. and its NATO allies revealed Friday they may keep as many as 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after the combat mission ends next year, largely ...
German: US to leave 8,000-12,000 troops in Afghan
A German official said Friday that Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has told NATO allies that the U.S. will leave between 8,000 and 12,000 American ...
NATO to consider maintaining larger Afghan force
NATO is strongly considering a proposal to continue funding a security force of 352,000 Afghan troops through 2018, as part of an effort to maintain ...
Taliban vow to keep targeting Afghan officials
The Taliban vowed Thursday to target government employees and other Afghan civilians they consider linked to the U.S.-led coalition despite a warning ...
Karzai bans Afghan forces from seeking airstrikes
Critics expressed worries Monday that a presidential order barring Afghan security forces from requesting international airstrikes during operations ...
Top US general says he can work with airstrike ban
The top American commander in Afghanistan said on Sunday that he believes the U.S.-led NATO coalition can operate effectively despite the Afghan ...
Afghan army trains women for special forces
The Afghan army is training female special forces to take part in night raids against insurgents, breaking new ground in an ultraconservative society ...
Afghan troop cuts invite comparison to Iraq
As the U.S. looks to reduce American and Afghan forces in Afghanistan after 2014, Congress members are making comparisons to Iraq and predicting a ...
US ships military equipment out of Afghanistan
The United States began its withdrawal from Afghanistan in earnest, officials said Monday, sending the first of what will be tens of thousands of ...
American deaths in Afghan war drop to 4-year low
U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan have plunged to the lowest level in four years, reflecting a pullback from direct combat into the less deadly role ...
AP Interview: Top US general confident in Afghans
The top commander of U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan believes government security forces have improved faster than expected and will be ready to take ...
Taliban attacks show Afghan insurgents' resilience
Taliban suicide bombers carried out a brazen attack in the Afghan capital on Monday, the second in less than a week and a sign that insurgents are ...
UK soldier dies from Afghanistan wounds
Britain's Ministry of Defense says a soldier injured in Afghanistan has died from his wounds at a U.K. hospital. The defense ministry says the soldier ...
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