Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, remained in critical condition after undergoing an additional surgery on Monday to repair a torn aorta.

The US-led Nato alliance in Afghanistan warned on Monday that foreign soldiers will face further violence in 2011, capping what has been the deadliest year of the war on record.

Six American soldiers training Afghan police in a Taliban flashpoint were shot dead by one of their students in the deadliest such incident in at least two years, officials said Tuesday.

The US-led war in Afghanistan is now longer than the Soviets' futile campaign in the benighted nation and after nine years and 50 days of battle, the West is also groping for an exit.

Locals in this southern Afghan valley have accused US Marines of regularly killing civilians since they launched an aggressive campaign against the Taliban here over a month ago, claims the Marines sa

Reuters: The New York Times said on Tuesday that a man it had described as a 'Taliban leader' who had taken part in 'secret peace talks' with the Afghan government was in fact an impostor.

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Reuters: Children are probably safer growing up in Afghanistan's major cities, including the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, than in London, New York, or Glasgow, NATO's top civilian envoy to Afghanis

Lisbon: President Barack Obama said for the first time he wants US troops out of major combat in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the date he and other NATO leaders set for moving Afghans into the lead

Three civilians were killed and another 25 were wounded when a bomb fixed to a bicycle exploded on Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, the governor said.

Two remote-controlled bombs attached to bicycles exploded one after the other on Saturday in different parts of a city in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least three people and wounding more than two