Afghanistan News

In this November 2011 file photo, Afghans watch the scene of a roadside bomb in Laghman, east of Kabul, Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle at a police parking lot in central Kandahar on Sunday, killing at least seven people, including five police officers and a child, in the fourth attempted or successful suicide bombing there in less than a month.

Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will brief the Qatar leadership about Pakistan's talks with Afghanistan during a three-day official visit to Qatar, a country where the Taliban is to open a political office.

A second Marine is going to trial for allegedly hazing a fellow Marine who later fatally shot himself in Afghanistan.

They won't all make it. Never in all of my life will I forget the freezing 2006/08 winter in Afghanistan.

An Afghan woman clad in burqa is carried in a wheelbarrow to a bus station, as the ground is covered with snow in Kabul.

A one-star U.S. Army general from Fairfax County was found dead in his Kabul sleeping quarters on Friday, and Defense Department officials said he is the highest-ranking officer to die during the war in Afghanistan .

Kabul, Feb 5: At least four people were killed and six injured after an avalanche hit some villages in Afghanistan's Badakhshan province, Xinhua reported Sunday.

Afghan officials say at least seven people, including five police officers, were killed when a car bomb exploded outside police headquarters in the southern city of Kandahar on Sunday.

Afghans walk over snow after a snow storm on a hill side in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb.

The Anglo-American aggression addicts haven't kicked the habit. The team that brought you shock and awe and Operation Infinite Justice is gearing up for yet another crack at winning a senseless war in the Middle East.

The Afghan Taliban denied on Saturday that the group's leader Mullah Omar wrote to the White House last year.

Civilian deaths undermine support both in Afghanistan and the United States for the U.S.-led war, and are one of the biggest causes of friction between President Hamid Karzai and the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force .

It was the first State of the Union address after the 9/11 attacks, and America was leading an invasion of Afghanistan in pursuit of Osama bin Laden.

A statement posted on the Fort Hood website says Brig. Gen. Terence Hildner died Friday in Kabul of apparent natural causes.

Afghan officials say they are hopeful that the country's largest airport will reopen after being closed due to heavy snowfall.

A U.N. report issued on Saturday said last year was the deadliest on record for Afghan civilians, with 3,021 killed in the war.

Pakistan's prime minister will travel to the Gulf state of Qatar next week to talk with government leaders there about moves to broker a peace deal with the Afghan Taliban.

The Army on Friday dropped all charges against the fifth soldier accused of murdering Afghan civilians for sport during a 2010 deployment, in one of the most gruesome cases to emerge from the Afghan war.

Current and former U.S. officials tell The Associated Press that reclusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar wrote to President Barack Obama last year indicating an interest in talks key to ending the war in Afghanistan.