A suicide bomber targeted an Afghan government official at a village funeral near the Pakistan border on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens more in one of the deadliest attacks of

Afghanistan's defense minister, who played a key role overseeing the rapid expansion of the country's army, stepped down on Tuesday days after receiving a no-confidence vote from parliament.

The resi

Taliban insurgents near the Afghan capital Kabul executed four civilians working for a Western security company, officials said on Wednesday, days after a similar execution in the area.

The bullet-ri

Rescue teams were on Tuesday struggling to free up to 70 villagers believed to be trapped after a double earthquake destroyed homes in northern Afghanistan, officials said.

At least three bodies have

A suicide truck bomber attacked a US-run base on Friday, sparking clashes that killed up to 14 people in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, officials said.

NATO's US-led International Sec

An Afghan man has been arrested for trying to cut off his pregnant wife's tongue when he attacked her during an argument, police said on Wednesday.

The woman later lost her baby, police spokesman She

Angry residents in the southern Afghan province of Helmand on Thursday chopped off the ears of a man accused of planting a roadside bomb that killed two civilians, an official said.

Two teenagers wer

US military commanders in Afghanistan are now assigning 'guardian angels' to protect even sleeping American troops.

The move is a plan to prevent rogue attacks on US servicemen from their Afghan coun

The commander of an Afghan lieutenant who killed two British soldiers denied on Tuesday that the officer was a Taliban infiltrator, saying he had served in the army with credit for years.

Concern is

A man wearing Afghan army uniform shot dead two soldiers from NATO's US-led force in southern Afghanistan on Monday, a military spokesman said.

The deaths come after a series of 'green-on-blue' attac