British Prime Minister David Cameron will hold key talks with leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan to discuss the peace process and prevent a Taliban resurgence when foreign troops withdraw from the war-torn country in 2014.

A suicide attack on a joint NATO-Afghan foot patrol on Monday killed at least 13 people, including three NATO troops and four Afghan police, ISAF and Afghan officials said.

Six civilians were also ki

A suicide attack on a joint NATO-Afghan foot patrol on Monday killed at least 13 people, including three NATO troops and four Afghan police, ISAF and Afghan officials said.

Six civilians were also ki

A militant detonated a remote-control bomb on Tuesday morning, killing at least eight Afghan civilians who were traveling in a bus just northwest of the Afghan capital, police said.

The bomb was plac

Ahead of the Pakistan prime minister's maiden visit to Afghanistan on Thursday to discuss cross-border attacks being mounted by Afghan militants on Pakistan, Pakistani troops reportedly killed six Afg

Dozens of Afghan women's rights activists took to the streets on Wednesday to protest against the recent public execution of a young woman for alleged adultery, which was captured in a horrific video.

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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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

In a room full of would-be suicide bombers at a high security detention centre in the Afghan capital, an elderly cleric quietly reads out verses from the Quran, telling the young men the act of killin

A woman from Afghanistan, whose family fled from the country when the Taliban took power and is one of many Afghans who have since returned, is doing something no one else has ever done.

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