Gunmen launched multiple attacks across the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, with assaults in possibly seven different places, Afghanistan's NATO-led force said.

A spokesperson for NATO's Internationa

Condemned to die shortly after birth for being a girl, outspoken Afghan member of parliament Fawzia Koofi lived to become a champion of women's rights and is now eyeing the presidency in 2014.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday he may call an early presidential election to leave enough time for the new government to handle a planned security transition from US forces to Afghans.

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

At least nine people were killed when two suicide bombers rammed their vehicle into a local government compound near Afghanistan's western city of Herat on Tuesday, police and witnesses said.

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An Afghan peace envoy was killed along with his son when a suicide bomber targeted him on his way back from Friday prayers along with his son, dealing another blow to Afghanistan's reconciliation proc

Three anti-Gaddafi rebels from Libya thrashed two Afghans outside Sahara Mall here in a drunken brawl early on Tuesday. All the five people were arrested and later released on bail, police said. The L

Al-Qaeda has returned to Afghanistan and is planning to use the war-torn nation as a base to launch another 9/11-style attack on Western countries, a senior official has claimed.

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A leader of the Haqqani network, accused of several attacks on security forces and murder of civilians, was captured Saturday in Afghanistan, officials said.

Sayf-ul-Rahman was captured in the easter

US will have to default and rely on India and Northern Distribution network if Pakistan does not open up its crucial Afghan supply route, a top Pentagon official told lawmakers on Friday.

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