Afghanistan News

NOWSHERA, Pakistan a ' Flooding in Pakistan has killed more than 800 people in a week, a government official said Saturday as rescuers struggled to reach marooned victims and some evacuees showed signs of fever, diarrhea and other waterborne diseases.

The editor in chief of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has strongly denied allegations by the US government that he has blood on his hands due to the some 90,000 leaked documents, many of them classified, which have been posted on the site.

A diplomatic spat with implications for international counterterrorism escalated Saturday, when Pakistan's spy chief canceled a visit to London after the British leader suggested that Pakistan exports terrorism.

HUNDREDS of North West soldiers are today leading a major assault to seize control of an Afghanistan town from the Taliban.

The White House is imploring the website WikiLeaks not to post any more classified documents about the Afghanistan war, saying U.S. national security and Afghan lives are at risk.

British forces have made progress in a fresh assault on the Taliban in southern Afghanistan and are holding two compounds.

The U.N. Security Council on Friday removed five Taliban members from its sanctions blacklist, a move sought by the Afghan government to promote reconciliation.

Three U.S. troops died in blasts in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 63 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war.

The disclosure of classified reports about the Afghanistan war revealed tactics to the enemy and could endanger individuals who provided intelligence to the U.S. and its allies, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Thursday.

Call them super-CSI, but in a flak vest and helmet. The Canadian army is dramatically upping the ante in training expert soldiers to fight networks that plant roadside bombs and booby traps in Afghanistan.

After the successful rescue of a kitten from a well off Welcome to Arnco Road in late June, do you think both City and/or County Fire Department personnel should be used to rescue pets and animals which are trapped or in danger? Always: 177 In Most Cases: 195 79 Never: 102 Total Votes: Special Chris Chiasson, who is stationed at the same base where ...

This strategic valley on the outskirts of Kandahar is on its third government boss in eight months.

Two soldiers killed in Afghanistan while saving a wounded comrade during a firefight with the Taliban are to be repatriated in Wiltshire.

Vice President Joe Biden says U.S. forces are inflicting "significant damage" on the al-Qaida terrorist network in Pakistan and Afghanistan.

A second U.S. Navy sailor who went missing in a dangerous part of eastern Afghanistan was found dead and his body recovered, a senior U.S. military official and Afghan officials said Thursday.

Call it the big information chill, looming across the military and intelligence communities.