President Barack Obama will set the course for drawing down the U.S. war in Afghanistan on Wednesday, when he is expected to announce plans to bring roughly 10,000 American troops home in less than a

Two policemen were among seven people killed on Wednesday in a suicide car bomb attack in Afghanistan's northeastern Kapisa province, Xinhua reported.

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The US has established contacts with Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Muhammad Omar to negotiate an end to the conflict in Afghanistan, a media report on Tuesday said.

At least 16 people were killed in two separate bomb blasts in Afghanistan on Saturday, Xinhua reported quoting officials.

The commander of a provincial Afghan police rapid reaction force was killed on Saturday in a suicide attack that also claimed another officer's life and wounded 23 people, police said.

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A series of bombs and explosions killed 20 people in Afghanistan's southern and eastern flashpoints on Saturday, among them at least eight children and four women, government officials said.

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US President Barack Obama has spoken to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and expressed his “sorrow” over recent civilian deaths in Nato air strikes in the war-torn country.

India on Friday said its “unique” friendship with Afghanistan is not aimed against any other country, an obvious reference to Pakistan which has been voicing concern over New Delhi’s involvement in rebuilding the war-torn nation.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday Nato air strikes on common people's homes in pursuit of the Taliban would no longer be allowed in the country.

At least 14 civilians were killed and six wounded in a NATO air strike in southern Afghanistan, the local authorities said on Sunday.

US Marines in Nawzad district of Helmand province called in air s