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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The partial collapse of a coal mine in northern Afghanistan has killed at least 20 coal miners and injured 14 others, officials said Sunday. Many of those [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Olympic Stadium in Kabul has not seen this big a crowd since the Taliban used the place for public executions, with attendance mandatory. No coercion was [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan police arrested two militants on Monday in the execution-style murder of an Indian writer who had written critically about the Taliban, in a memoir that [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Underscoring the continued threat to civilians in Afghanistan, a drone strike in an eastern province killed up to 16 people, Afghan officials said Sunday, while a Taliban [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least 18 Taliban prisoners, some of them prominent figures, were released by Pakistan and Afghanistan, with no guarantees that they would not rejoin the insurgency, Afghan [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban breached an international military base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, in a complex attack that left at least one Western soldier, four Afghan police officers, [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three Chinese workers were found dead under mysterious circumstances in an apartment in central Kabul on Friday, officials said, prompting the Chinese Embassy to urge the Afghan [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters killed 22 Afghan police officers on Thursday in an ambush of their convoy in an eastern province bordering Pakistan, officials said Friday. It was one [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An explosion heard across Kabul on Tuesday morning appeared aimed at killing a prominent ethnic Hazara politician as he was traveling in his armored convoy. The politician [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDKABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan insurgency sent 13 suicide bombers to assault two high-profile government targets on Monday, one in the capital and the other in a southern province, [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Gunmen and suicide bombers attacked the periphery of Kabul International Airport before dawn on Monday, Afghan officials said. ''Several armed men have attacked,'' said Hashmat Stanakzai, a [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDKABUL, Afghanistan -- In what appeared to be a concerted effort to test the capabilities of Afghan security forces in the capital, Taliban insurgents sought to penetrate the heavily [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An explosion in a mountain village in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed at least seven civilians after a joint American-Afghan military raid killed four Taliban fighters there, [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An American doctor kidnapped by the Taliban was rescued Sunday by Afghan and coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan, officials said. At least six people were killed and [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban continued its strategy of trying to assassinate government officials in Afghanistan on Sunday, killing three relatives of a police chief in Helmand Province, and trying [...]

A Turkish helicopter crashed into a house in Kabul on Friday, killing at least 12 Turkish service members and 2 civilians. The deaths were the single largest loss of life [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The anger over the American military's burning of Korans this week claimed at least 10 more lives on Friday as rage continued to explode across the country [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban took the four men to the main bazaar in a southern Afghanistan district at evening prayer on Sunday, regional government officials said, denounced them as [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Seven children and a young adult were killed in a NATO airstrike last week as they grazed their sheep and goats in a snowy area of eastern [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED KABUL, Afghanistan -- In a somber but dramatic flourish, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan on Saturday used a speech during the annual opening of Parliament to recite an [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Three suicide attackers stormed a government building in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, setting off a seven-hour gunfight with Afghan soldiers and police officers that left 10 people [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An Afghan soldier turned his gun on American military personnel while they were playing volleyball at a camp in southern Afghanistan, killing one and wounding three others [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO said eight of its service members died in three attacks in southern Afghanistan, and an Afghan official on Friday identified four of the dead as American [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two British citizens detained by the police in Kabul and accused of carrying an arsenal of 30 unlicensed AK-47 assault rifles in their sport utility vehicle were [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- For the second time in a week, a man wearing an Afghan Army uniform attacked NATO personnel on Thursday, this time gunning down two members of the [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- After prodding by his American and European backers, President Hamid Karzai dropped his opposition to allowing the Taliban to set up an office in the Persian Gulf [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO said a roadside bomb killed five of its service members in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, and Afghan officials and the Taliban identified the dead as Polish [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan withdrew its ambassador from Qatar in protest over reports that the Persian Gulf emirate has been in discussions about bringing in Taliban insurgents to jump-start peace [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai paid an emotional visit on Wednesday to a hospital full of survivors of a series of suicide bombings claimed by a Pakistani extremist group, [...]

SABARI, Afghanistan -- As targeted killings have risen sharply across Afghanistan, American and Afghan officials believe that many are the work of counterintelligence units of the Haqqani militant network and [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber killed eight people during religious celebrations in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, defying an admonition by the Taliban's leader not to attack civilians. Afghan officials [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents attacked a logistics company that works with NATO in the western city of Herat on Thursday, igniting a three-hour gun battle that left two Afghan security [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's embattled spy agency absolved itself of any wrongdoing on Saturday in the case of a wandering Islamic preacher detained by intelligence officials who ended up in [...]

ASADABAD, Afghanistan -- American and Afghan troops have killed at least 115 insurgents as part of a tough fight to gain control of a critical corridor and resupply route to [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED KABUL, Afghanistan -- Militants attacked a British cultural relations agency in a residential neighborhood of Kabul early Friday, setting off huge car bomb explosions and killing at least [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A bomb attack on a patrol killed two NATO soldiers and five Afghan soldiers on Friday evening, in an impoverished area of eastern Afghanistan where the Afghan [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A bodyguard for Afghanistan's intelligence service killed two members of the NATO-led coalition on Saturday morning when he opened fire on a convoy heading out to train [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A Pakistani wore the vest rigged with explosives; a Kabul University medical student did the planning. And a soldier new to the Afghan Army -- promised 25,000 [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A powerful midday blast on the grounds of the heavily guarded national military hospital here killed at least 6 people and injured more than 20 others, government [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- For the second time in three days, a night raid in eastern Afghanistan by NATO forces resulted in the death of a child, setting off protests on [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday ordered the release of a prominent presidential aide two hours after his arrest on corruption charges, according to two officials in the [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A cell of suicide bombers active in Kabul was run for three years by a Taliban commander operating from the city's main prison, Afghan officials said Thursday. [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on Friday at a supermarket in the capital frequented by foreigners. They said the strike was aimed at [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government is putting new scrutiny on private security companies, raising concerns among Western officials that President Hamid Karzai may be accelerating efforts to push them [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber apparently singling out Afghan intelligence officers killed two people and wounded 36 on Wednesday in a crowded Kabul neighborhood near Parliament's offices. It was [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- NATO forces, acting on apparently faulty intelligence, killed two Afghan private security guards and wounded three others in a gun battle early Friday that could lead to [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two suicide bombers wearing police uniforms blew themselves up inside the police headquarters of Paktika Province in southeastern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 10 officers and [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- For months, American and Afghan officials have been promoting a plan to persuade masses of rank-and-file Taliban fighters to change sides and join the government. The tactic, [...]

A Dutch aid worker and his driver were kidnapped by five armed men on the highway between Takhar and Kunduz Provinces in northern Afghanistan on Monday, a spokesman for Takhar's [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least two bombers dressed in burqas and another driving a car attacked the United Nations compound in the comparatively peaceful western city of Herat just before [...]