Afghan Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the shooting deaths of American advisers in the interior ministry in Kabul on Saturday.

The Taliban said in a statement on their website that ‘a h

Two American officers were shot dead at close range in Afghanistan's Interior Ministry on Saturday, a U.S. official said, as rage gripped the country for a fifth day over the burning of the Muslim hol

A US officer was responsible for the burning of Quran at a military base that sparked three days of deadly protests across Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday.

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At least 15 people have died in violence over the past three days in Afghanistan following reports of burning holy Quran by foreign soldiers.

Afghans in various provinces staged demonstrations that e

Hundreds of Afghans threw stones, shouted ‘death to America’ and torched tyres, pouring onto streets on Wednesday for a second day of angry protests against NATO troops for burning copies of the Qura

Protests erupted outside the main US military base in Afghanistan and in Kabul on Tuesday over allegations that foreign troops had set fire to copies of the Quran, police said.

Thousands of protester

NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said on Monday they had mistakenly killed a group of children in an air strike that has enraged the government, and said their deaths may have been linked to an anti-ins

The Afghan government has published new textbooks for schoolchildren that shun the country's modern history of conflict in an effort to promote national unity, an official said on Tuesday.

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Six police officers were killed on Sunday in a car bomb attack on their headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, a bastion of Taliban militancy, a local government official said.

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A 22-year old woman in Afghanistan has been strangled to death by her husband and mother-in-law for giving birth to a baby girl.

Afghan police has arrested the woman’s mother in-law for the murder th