Eight NATO troops and a contractor were killed when an Afghan pilot opened fire on Wednesday after a row at a Kabul training centre in one of the deadliest such attacks since the US-led invasion in 20

Nearly 500 Taliban prisoners have escaped from Kandahar prison in southern Afghanistan through a tunnel hundreds of metres long, officials said today.

The Taliban said it was behind the huge jail

Around 500 Taliban prisoners escaped overnight from southern Afghanistan's Kandahar jail in a daring breakout the second from the prison in the past three years.

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A roadside bomb killed two Nato service members and a gunman shot dead a local peace council official in Southern Afghanistan where thousands of Afghan and international troops are bracing for an expected spring resurgence of Taliban attacks, officials said on Sunday.

In gruelling conflicts in Pakistan and now Libya, the spotlight is being thrust on America's use of pilotless drones. But US military officials insist they are far from faceless machines.

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Sixty-five militants were killed in fighting with the security forces in Eastern Afghanistan, Xinhua reported on Thursday. The fighting took place in the Baraki Barak district of the Logar province, 60 km south of Kabul.

A Taliban suicide bomber wearing an Army uniform killed five foreign troops and four Afghan soldiers on Saturday in a brazen attack at the Afghan Army's Eastern headquarters.

The police chief of Southern Afghanistan’s Kandahar province has been killed in a suicide attack at the city's police headquarters, officials said on Friday.

A Pakistani man has been arrested on suspicion of leading a botched assault on a Nato base last week that left seven insurgents dead, the Afghan Intelligence Agency said.

Afghanistan: U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is beginning a two-day visit with US troops, allied commanders and Afghan leaders to gauge war progress as the Obama administration moves toward crucia