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NATO: No Proof Yet Of Torture, Killing By U.S-Connected Forces

AP | PATRICK QUINN and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 04.27.2013 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan said Monday it has found no evidence to support allegations that American special for...

Afghans Weighs Immunity For U.S. Troops

AP | HEIDI VOGT and AMIR SHAH | Posted 03.16.2013 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Afghan president said Monday that a meeting of the nation's elders should convene to decide whether U.S. troops staying...

Enduring Resistance

AP | ROBERT BURNS | Posted 10.27.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A new chapter of the Afghanistan war is opening with a slimmed-down Western force doing more advising than fighting, a resilient...

Insurgents Attack Key U.S. Base In Afghanistan

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 09.11.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan insurgents bombarded a U.S. base and destroyed a NATO helicopter, killing three Afghan intelligence employees, officials ...

Teenage Suicide Bomber Kills 6 In Kabul

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 11.08.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — A suicide bomber struck at the heart of NATO's operation in Kabul on Saturday, killing at least six Afghan civilians in an ...

Afghan Culture Guides Need To Cut Insider Attacks

Reuters | Posted 11.06.2012 | World

By Amie Ferris-Rotman KABUL, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Afghan Defence Ministry officials, trying to stop the alarming increase in 'insider' a...

Man In Afghan Uniform Kills 3 Troops

AP | KAY JOHNSON | Posted 10.29.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan President Hamid Karzai moved to replace the country's intelligence chief and the ministers of defense and interior W...

America's Forgotten War?

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 10.21.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — It was once President Barack Obama's "war of necessity." Now, it's America's forgotten war. The Afghan conflict generates ...

July Deadliest Month For U.S. Troops In Afghanistan

AP | The Associated Press | Posted 08.16.2012 | World

-- At least 1,961 U.S. service personnel have been killed in Afghanistan over the course of the 11-year war. Casualties rose steadily each year befor...

Brash Bombings Kill Dozens In Afghanistan

AP | DEB RIECHMANN and AMIR SHAH | Posted 10.14.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — Suicide bombers launched multiple attacks in a remote corner of southwestern Afghanistan near the Iranian border Tuesday, k...

Disturbing Rise In Afghan Militant Attacks

AP | DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 09.26.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — Insurgent attacks in Afghanistan during the past three months were up 11 percent, compared to the same period last year, ac...

Roadside Bomb Kills 6 In Southern Afghanistan

AP | Posted 09.06.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan officials say a roadside bomb has killed six civilians in southern Afghanistan, while a rocket attack in the west ki...

Suicide Bombers Hit Afghan Government Compound

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 08.29.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — Suicide bombers blew themselves up at the gate of a government compound in eastern Afghanistan before dawn Friday, opening ...

Roadside Bomb Kills 3 Afghan Police Officers

AP | Posted 08.16.2012 | World

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials say three police officers have been killed in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan. Uruzgan provincia...

Scores Of Killings Highlight Afghanistan's Ongoing Instability

AP | MIRWAIS KHAN and DEB RIECHMANN | Posted 08.06.2012 | World

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Scores of Afghans were killed Wednesday in Taliban attacks and other violence including a NATO airstrike, highlighting p...

Roadside Bombs Kill 4 Afghan Police, 1 Civilian

AP | Posted 08.05.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan authorities say two separate roadside bomb blasts have killed five people including four policemen in the east of th...

U.S. Requests Help To Pay For Afghan Army

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 07.17.2012 | World

WASHINGTON — Mapping the way out of an unpopular war, the United States and NATO are trying to build an Afghan army that can defend the country ...

Suicide Bombers Storm Government Compound

AP | Posted 07.16.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A group of suicide bombers armed with explosive-laden vests, automatic weapons and rocket propelled grenades stormed a governmen...

Shrines A Last Resort For Afghanistan's Mentally Ill

AP | RAHMAT GUL | Posted 05.17.2012 | World

JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- The young man sits nearly naked in a small concrete room, a thick, heavy chain fastened around his ankle and bolted to the w...

150 Schoolgirls Poisoned

Reuters | Posted 06.17.2012 | World

By Mohammad Hamid KUNDUZ, Afghanistan, April 17 (Reuters) - About 150 Afghan schoolgirls were poisoned on Tuesday after drinking conta...

Joshua Hersh

Afghanistan Green-On-Blue Attacks: Minister Of Defense Announces New Measures

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 04.12.2012 | World

WASHINGTON -- The government of Afghanistan has begun to take a series of enhanced measures to prevent the killing of NATO soldiers by Afghan forces, ...

Massive Tanker Fire Kills At Least 7

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 06.06.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — Four Afghan policemen were killed on Friday as the Taliban have stepped up their attacks against government and NATO troops...

Car Bomb Targets Aid Team In Southern Afghanistan

AP | AMIR SHAH | Posted 03.27.2012 | World

Afghanistan Car Bomb Targets Aid Team, Killing 4

Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 7 At Busy Afghan Base

AP | By MIRWAIS KHAN | Posted 03.19.2012 | World

By ASSOCIATED PRESS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A suicide attacker set off a vehicle laden with explosives Thursday outside a gate at a sprawling ba...

Civilian Helicopter Crash Kills 3

AP | Posted 03.17.2012 | World

KABUL, Afghanistan — A civilian helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing all three people on board, an Afghan official said...