Afghanistan News

A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other Friday, killing at least 39 people in this eastern city and wounding nearly 100, police said.

A homemade bomb placed outside a store in northwestern Pakistan where locals watch movies exploded Thursday, killing four people, including a child, said officials.

British commanders are watching to see if the Taliban are changing tactics after reports of better shooting from insurgents British commanders in Afghanistan are watching to see if the Taliban are changing tactics after troops in a militant hotspot reported that insurgents' shooting is becoming more accurate.

Hundreds of mourners paid tribute at the funeral of a hero Scottish soldier killed in Afghanistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan ANSF forces in the Tagab district of Kapisa province are assisting ISAF with the evacuation of wounded children after an explosion this morning.

The Afghan Taliban's leadership has dispersed to cities across Pakistan to avoid arrest after the recent detention of senior militants, officials and militants say.

In a test of congressional support for President Barack Obama's new Afghanistan strategy, lawmakers are set to vote on Wednesday on a resolution that would direct him to pull U.S. forces out of the war.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband is to call on the Afghan government to work harder to find a political solution to the conflict with the Taliban.

Canadian soldiers are pushing deep into Taliban territory ahead of a major offensive in Kandahar this spring.

In this Aug. 8, 2009, file photo, released by the semi-official Fars News Agency, Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani, walks through the revolutionary court in Tehran, Iran.

The CIA on Tuesday warned India and Brazil that they face "emerging threats" from Al-Qaeda and Taliban, though the terrorist outfits are "on the run" due to extreme pressure exerted on them in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The latest in a series of US drone attacks targeted militants in the centre of Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan, a rebel stronghold near the Afghan border.

Inquest into death of Corporal Sarah Bryant heard that troops were under-prepared and in inadequate vehicles Corporal Sarah Bryant, the first female British soldier to be killed in Afghanistan.

President Barack Obama meets with Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece on Tuesday before sitting down with senators from both parties to talk about energy.

Afghanistan's capital is cracking down on vehicles with dark tinted windows to increase security following a spate of terrorist attacks in Kabul.