In an unusual comment, Afghan Taliban has praised India as a ‘significant country’ in the region and said New Delhi has done well to resist US calls for greater military involvement in Afghanistan.

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NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen Wednesday vowed not to abandon Afghanistan as foreign nations plan to transition forces out of the country.

"We will not abandon Afghanistan, we will not leave behind

As many as 100 people are feared dead in an earthquake and landslide that buried more than 20 houses in northern Afghanistan on Monday, officials said.

Rescuers have so far pulled two women's bodies

Rescue teams were on Tuesday struggling to free up to 70 villagers believed to be trapped after a double earthquake destroyed homes in northern Afghanistan, officials said.

At least three bodies have

More than 70 people, most women and children, are feared dead after a landslide triggered by a double earthquake engulfed their Afghan village, officials said on Tuesday.

Two shallow quakes less than

In a room full of would-be suicide bombers at a high security detention centre in the Afghan capital, an elderly cleric quietly reads out verses from the Quran, telling the young men the act of killin

You know a friendship has gone sour when you start making mean jokes about your friend in front of his most bitter nemesis.

So it was a bad sign this week when the U.S. defense secretary joshed in fr

US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told troops in Afghanistan on Thursday that the decade-long war was at 'a turning point', as Kabul reacted with fury to a NATO air strike that killed up to 18 civilians.

The United States is running out of patience with Pakistan over safe havens for insurgents who attack US troops across the border in Afghanistan, Defencee Secretary Leon Panetta warned on Thursday.

US Staff-Sergeant Joshua Danison cranes his neck to survey jagged ridges vertical and black above him on the eastern edge of Afghanistan, then reels off the rules here for survival as a Chinook transp