Up to 12 Taliban insurgents have been killed and 20 detained in military operations in nine Afghan provinces within the past 24 hours, the country's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday morning.

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A bomb in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday killed six NATO service members, on a day where a total of 29 people died from roadside bombs and insurgent attacks.

NATO said the blast was caused by an impro

A man Afghan officials say is a member of the Taliban shot dead a woman accused of adultery in front of a crowd near Kabul, a video obtained by Reuters showed, a sign that the austere Islamist group d

The United States has designated Afghanistan a major non-NATO ally, giving the war-torn country special privileges as the US prepares to pull its troops out in 2014, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

A man in an Afghan police uniform has gunned down three NATO personnel in the war-torn country's troubled south, the coalition said on Sunday, the latest so-called "green on blue" attack.

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Seven Pakistani soldiers have been beheaded by Taliban militants close to the Afghan border, according to a report.

The soldiers were on patrol in the north-western district of Upper Dir.

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Militants armed with rockets and automatic weapons have launched a suicide attack on a hotel at a popular Kabul beauty spot with reports on Friday that insurgents were holding numerous hostages.

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Taliban militants armed with guns and rockets attacked a lakeside hotel near Kabul overnight, seizing dozens of hostages including women and children and killing at least eight people.

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Three men in Afghan police uniforms killed a soldier with the US-led NATO coalition on Monday, the coalition said, in the latest so-called 'green-on-blue' attack.

The three attackers fled after the k

In an unusual comment, the Afghan Taliban praised India as a “significant country” and said it had done well to resist American calls for greater military involv-ement in Afghanistan.