Australia's new defense minister warned U.S. and NATO allies over the weekend that they risk losing the war in Afghanistan without a sharp shift in military and reconstruction efforts there, according ...

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In Afghanistan today, NATO took on its biggest assignment since its founding to oppose the Soviet Union in 1949. NATO's International Security Assistance Force has been assigned to the relatively ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – A roadside bomb killed two NATO soldiers and wounded two others on patrol in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, the alliance said. The roadside bomb struck the soldiers' vehicle in ...

KABUL — Two NATO service members were killed Friday in roadside bombings in southern Afghanistan, while allied and Afghan forces killed three senior Taliban figures and captured 11 fighters and ...

Hundreds of Taliban fighters have taken over several villages in the same southern Afghanistan province where about 400 Taliban militants recently escaped from prison, local officials and police said.

Insurgents attacked a NATO base in the eastern Afghanistan province of Khost Friday, killing at least seven Afghan security forces and injuring 12 others, local police said. The attack began when ...

KABUL – NATO commanders apologized Monday after a coalition airstrike killed at least 27 Afghan civilians, including women and children. Monday's strike was the third this month to kill noncombatants ...

ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The border between Kunar in Afghanistan and Mohmand in Pakistan is irrelevant for the people who live there, and regularly criss-cross it on a dirt road, but for ...

Forget the start of withdrawal from Afghanistan in July of next year. The US and NATO have now extended major combat until 2014, even though President Karzai wants forces reduced. We look at the ...

Afghanistan's Taliban trade minister arrived in India on Wednesday on a maiden visit to draw greater investments and goods as ...