Seven US troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, Nato said on Sunday.

Two servicemen died in bombings on Sunday in southern Afghanistan, while tw

Taliban militants attacked two bases of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in eastern Afghanistan in predawn raids on Saturday.

Militants attacked the bases in Khost province with ind

An Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist plot in Canada unearthed on Wednesday with the arrest two suspects has been traced back to Pakistan, Iran and Dubai even as police arrested another plotter on Thursday.

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The Taliban do not represent the popular will of the people in Afghanistan, a top Obama Administration official has said, a day after a former ISI chief told a US news network that the militant group

The Afghan defence minister on Monday said that efforts to combat the Taliban in his country were moving in the right direction and could bear significant results by the end of 2010, despite the recent spike in US casualties.

A roadside bomb hit a minibus in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing six passengers and wounding another nine, an official said.

India, Pakistan and Afghanistan have an equally critical role in helping to bring stability in the region, the US has said.