The US is planning to end its combat operations in Afghanistan by mid 2013 and would switch to a 'train-and-assist' role, Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said.

"Hopefully, by mid- to the latter pa

The U.S. is abandoning plans to keep U.S. troops in Iraq past a year-end withdrawal deadline, The Associated Press has learned.

The decision to pull out fully by January will effectively end more th

The first group of about 10,000 US soldiers due to leave Afghanistan this year have already left, military officials said today, kicking off a gradual drawdown due to be completed in 2014.

Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, Dec. 4: The US President, Mr Barack Obama, has paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan and assured cheering US troops that they are winning the war against the Taliban despi

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.

Pakistan's ISI is pushing the Taliban to attack US troops and their allies based in Afghanistan, the media here has said, close on the heels of a White House report that slammed Islamabad for not doin

Seven US troops have died in weekend attacks in Afghanistan's embattled southern and eastern regions, Nato said on Sunday.

Two servicemen died in bombings on Sunday in southern Afghanistan, while tw

A deputy commander for an Al Qaida linked insurgent group was apprehended in an overnight operation in eastern Afghanistan that claimed the life of a woman, Nato said on Friday.

Separately, the coal