Kabul: Two major attacks, a plot to assassinate the country's first vice president and a planned bombing near the president's palace, have been foiled by the Afghan intelligence services. Latifullah M

In a major blow to Taliban, US-led coalition forces in Afghanistan have killed group's Pakistan-trained shadow governor in restive Kunduz province, who was an expert in making improvised explosive devices, suicide vests and anti-aircraft weapons.

A British bomb disposal expert was killed in southern Afghanistan when an improvised explosive device went off as he was clearing a road, the ministry of defence in London said.

The soldier, part of a specialist group tasked with tackling the threat from IEDs laid by Taliban insurgents, was caught in the blast in Lashkar Gah district, in troubled Helmand Province. His next of kin had been informed.

Islamabad: An unmanned US aircraft on Tuesday fired four missiles into two compounds in Pakistan's tribal region near the Afghan border, killing seven people, security officials said.

The attack rais

Kabul: Confidential UN maps show a clear deterioration in security in parts of Afghanistan over the course of this year, despite White House claims its strategy is working, the Wall Street Journal rep

NATO says one of its service members has been killed in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan.

A coalition statement said the person was killed on Monday. It provided no other details.

Dec. 23: The UN envoy to Afghanistan on Wednesday warned that the war was likely to get worse in the short-term and that Taliban insurgents may attempt “spectacular attacks.”

“We are detecting from t

Kabul: Sitting with knees hunched to his chest outside a mosque at Afghanistan's main children's hospital on Friday, farmer Mohammad Azim discussed the US's war review with a weary scepticism common i

A Nato service member died in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan early on Wednesday, the military coalition said. No further details were released.

Washington: There is a limited chance of success in the Afghanistan war unless Pakistan hunts down insurgents operating from havens on its Afghan border, says the New York Times quoting two new intell