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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Soon after family members found what they believe are the bodies of the last three people still missing out of 17 Afghan men detained by an American [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDKABUL, Afghanistan -- For more than seven months, Naimatullah hunted for his two brothers. He agitated with the American and Afghan authorities over their disappearances, dug fruitlessly around the [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A Toyota Corolla packed with explosives rammed a pair of American military vehicles in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Thursday, setting off a blast that killed at [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The suicide bomber who tried to assassinate Afghanistan's powerful new intelligence chief came from Pakistan and the attack was organized with the help of a sophisticated foreign [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A Taliban suicide bomber tried to assassinate the influential new chief of Afghanistan's intelligence service at an agency guesthouse in Kabul on Thursday, officials said, in a [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Jalalabad Road, the heart of what might be called the Afghan capital's military-industrial complex, has also become the place where heavy construction equipment comes to die. Lined [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber struck in northern Afghanistan on Friday morning, killing at least 45 people, just as worshipers were emerging from a mosque to celebrate the first [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber killed 14 people on Tuesday, including 10 foreigners, most of whom worked as flight crew members under contract with the United States government, officials [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Facing Afghanistan's first significant outbreak of violence over an anti-Islam film that has inflamed mobs elsewhere, the police moved swiftly on Monday to contain rampaging groups of [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai moved quickly on Sunday to confirm Parliament's decision to dismiss two senior security ministers the day before, but he reassured the Western allies that [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least nine Afghans and perhaps many more were forced out of their homes in rural Afghanistan and executed in what Afghan officials called an act of [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The scene that Afghan officials say was caught on video last month near Kabul was as horrific as it was once common in Afghanistan: a Taliban fighter [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan issued an impassioned call for the end of international airstrikes in his country on Tuesday, branding them as an ''illegitimate use of [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A roadside bomb explosion struck an ambulance in a bucolic, usually peaceful area of northern Afghanistan on Monday, killing at least three passengers and the driver, but [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan president's spokesman sternly rebuked American officials on Saturday, saying that the civilian casualties last week during an NATO-Afghan raid on Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Less than two hours after President Obama left Afghanistan, powerful explosions shook Kabul on Wednesday when a team of suicide attackers struck a private residential compound used [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen barraged the diplomatic quarter and the Parliament in the Afghan capital for hours on Sunday and struck three eastern provinces as well, [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The families of 16 Afghan villagers who were killed this month by a rampaging American soldier were given $50,000 by the United States for each of their [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Countering reports that the suspect in seven killings in France was one of hundreds of men who escaped from an Afghan prison in 2008, Afghan officials said [...]

BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- Word that NATO personnel had burned an undisclosed number of Korans and were preparing to dispose of many more by incineration set off an angry protest here [...]

DASHT-E-RABAT, Afghanistan -- A fuel tanker with a bomb hidden on board exploded Tuesday night on the road to Bagram Air Base, setting off an inferno that killed at least [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Days after he stood with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and accused Pakistan of harboring his country's enemies, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan said this weekend [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan security officials announced on Wednesday that they had foiled a plot to assassinate President Hamid Karzai and had arrested six suspects, including a guard who worked [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan officials said Sunday that they had arrested a man connected to the Taliban militants who sent a suicide bomber to kill the leader of Afghanistan's peace [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A cargo truck packed with explosives struck a NATO outpost south of the capital late Saturday, killing at least 5 people and wounding dozens more, including 77 [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Members of the Afghan Parliament came to blows Tuesday as a majority for the first time began to discuss impeaching President Hamid Karzai, signaling the near-total breakdown [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents ambushed an Afghan construction crew working on a road project in southeastern Afghanistan early Thursday morning, leaving at least 35 dead security guards, laborers and engineers [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A normally peaceful northern city erupted in violence on Wednesday, as thousands of protesters clashed with security forces after a NATO night raid that local officials claim [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan and India agreed to move ahead on a strategic partnership framework during a visit to the Afghan capital by India's prime minister on Thursday, just weeks [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Eight American service members and a contractor were shot and killed by an Afghan military officer on Wednesday while they attended a meeting of foreign and Afghan [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber on foot detonated his explosives on Wednesday as tribal elders left a meeting in a remote mountain village in eastern Afghanistan, killing one of [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban seized control of a district in eastern Nuristan Province on Tuesday, chasing the governor and the police from the district capital, according to both Afghan [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents kidnapped 40 men in an ambush in the northeastern province of Kunar on Saturday and a suicide bomber killed 20 people and wounded 50 others in [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Nine boys collecting firewood to heat their homes in the eastern Afghanistan mountains were killed by NATO helicopter gunners who mistook them for insurgents, according to a [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents intensified pressure on Afghan security forces on Sunday, killing five Afghan Army training officers in a suicide attack in Kabul and attacking an army recruiting center [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Sharply intensifying a conflict over the results of parliamentary elections, the government of President Hamid Karzai issued arrest warrants on Thursday for several top election officials and [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The chairman of the Central Bank of Afghanistan promised Monday to lend the embattled Kabul Bank ''as much as it wants'' to stave off a collapse, even [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government took steps on Sunday toward seizing the properties of major shareholders of the troubled Kabul Bank, as perturbed crowds and national security forces surrounded [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Airstrikes by NATO forces that killed 12 people on Thursday in northern Afghanistan have produced sharply conflicting accounts as to whether the attacks hit a team of [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants captured two American service members who were driving a civilian vehicle in a particularly dangerous region of Logar Province south of Kabul on Friday, according [...]

Afghan officials said they would delay by several weeks a ''peace jirga'' intended to establish the framework for how to negotiate with members of the Taliban who want to reconcile [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A contingent of Afghan reinforcements delivering supplies to a German military base was mistakenly fired on by German troops, and six Afghan soldiers were killed, officials said [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A delegation from one of the most important insurgent groups fighting Afghan and NATO forces met for the first time with President Hamid Karzai on Monday for [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A day after five lethal bombs shook Kandahar, officials appealed Sunday to the central government to send more security forces and expand intelligence gathering in the southern [...]

MARJA, Afghanistan -- Once a Taliban refuge, Marja has come a long way since the Marines invaded four weeks ago, so much so that the Afghan president, Hamid Karzai, arrived [...]

At least 17 people died in four separate episodes in Afghanistan on Saturday, while a police chief was kidnapped and a provincial governor narrowly escaped assassination. Three women and a [...]

The American military released the names of 645 detainees held at the main detention center at Bagram Air Base, modifying its long-held position against publicizing detention information and taking a [...]

President Hamid Karzai made a second effort to fill his cabinet on Saturday, nominating 16 new ministers a week after Parliament had rejected most of his first choices. But several [...]

Deepening a rift between allies, Afghan investigators on Wednesday sharply contradicted accounts by NATO officials about the deaths of 10 civilians in eastern Afghanistan, saying a visit to the remote […]

A suicide car bomber struck outside a hotel popular with foreigners on Tuesday, killing at least 8 people and wounding 40 others, the Afghan authorities said. Four women were among [...]