
US, Taliban to start talks on ending Afghan war
The Taliban and the U.S. said Tuesday they will hold talks on finding a political solution to ending nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan, as the ...
A look at US-Taliban relations
Word that the Taliban and U.S. will hold formal talks to find a political solution to end nearly 12 years of war in Afghanistan comes after years of ...

Bombing at Pakistani funeral kills 29
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 29 people.

Attack on Afghan convoy kills 3 drivers
Insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns into a convoy carrying goods to the Afghan capital on Monday, killing three drivers ...

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 ...

Gunmen in Pakistan kill 2 anti-polio workers
Gunmen killed two anti-polio workers Sunday in northwest Pakistan, police said, the latest violence directed at efforts to eradicate the disease from ...

Attacks in Pakistan's southwest kills 22
Pakistani forces stormed a hospital that had been taken over by gunmen Saturday in a restive southwestern province, freeing hostages and ending a ...
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, ...
UN says Afghan children casualties spike in war
The number of children killed and injured in Afghanistan's war has risen sharply this year, the U.N. Children's Fund, said, calling the trend ...
Georgia shuts 2 bases in Afghanistan after attacks
Georgia said Wednesday that the country has closed two of its bases in Afghanistan after 10 of its soldiers were killed by militant attacks within the ...

Taliban bomber in Kabul kills 17 at Supreme Court
A Taliban suicide bomber struck outside Afghanistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday, killing 17 people in the deadliest attack in Kabul in over a year and ...
Pakistani Taliban claim attack on NATO supply line
The Pakistani Taliban are claiming responsibility for an attack on NATO supply trucks that killed four people in the country's northwest. Around 15 ...

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 ...

Afghan president visits Qatar to discuss peace
Afghanistan's president landed in Qatar Sunday to discuss his country's stalled peace process and the possible opening of a Taliban office in the Gulf ...

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, ...

Pakistan summons US envoy over drone strike
Just days after taking power, Pakistan's new government summoned a top U.S. envoy Saturday to lodge a protest over a U.S. drone strike, suggesting ...
Georgia minister visits Afghanistan after 7 deaths
Georgia's defense minister visited his troops in Afghanistan on Friday, a day after seven Georgian soldiers were killed in a huge truck bomb blast at ...
Roadside bomb kills 3 policemen in Pakistan
Police say a roadside bomb targeting police has killed three officers and wounded another in northwestern Pakistan. Senior police officer Shafiullah ...

Fort Hood suspect can appeal if defense rejected
The military judge overseeing the trial of an Army psychiatrist charged in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage may not allow him to claim that he ...

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 ...

Fort Hood suspect says he was protecting Taliban
An Army psychiatrist charged with gunning down Fort Hood soldiers said Tuesday his defense would show that he was compelled to do so because deploying ...

Afghans demand arrest of US troops over killings
Hundreds of Afghans blocked a major highway south of Kabul on Tuesday, carrying freshly dug-up bodies they claimed were victims of torture by U.S.

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 ...
Afghan official: Taliban didn't down cargo plane
A joint U.S.-Afghan investigation into the crash of a civilian cargo jet in Afghanistan that killed seven Americans has ruled out insurgent ...