Afghan leader to push for Indian military aid

An American civilian and 11 Taliban insurgents have been killed in a joint Afghan and Nato security forces operation in eastern Kunar province, local officials said Sunday. The operation was launched in the Dar-e-Sheltan area of Kunar's Shigal ...

Madonna pledges support for Afghan girls KABUL: The world's best-selling female rock artist of the 20th century and the most popular female singer of the United States, Madonna Louise Ciccone, pledged to help Afghan, Pashtun girls in Pakistan and ...

Hundreds of homes collapsed across Kunar; death toll expected

The Taliban attack on an Afghan outpost in the Nari district of Kunar province resulted in the slaughter of more than a dozen Afghan soldiers last week. Afghan spokesmen accused Pakistani forces of providing support to the Taliban for mounting the ...

Afghan policemen destroy an opium poppy field in Noorgal, Kunar province A group of foreign civilians captured in eastern Afghanistan when their helicopter made an emergency landing are in good health, the Taliban said yesterday, as increased ...

KUNAR: Scores of heavily armed Taliban activists killed 13 Afghan soldiers in fierce clashes on Friday after storming an army post in the east of the country near the Pakistan border, police said. More than 100 militants armed with rocket-propelled ...

US army soldiers march from the Forward Base Honaker Miracle at Watahpur District in Kunar province, in this April 18, 2013 file photo. (AFP) | | A A AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE Last Update 21 April 2013 11:06 pm GHAZNI, Afghanistan: Nine Afghan ...

Afghan protesters burn a Pakistani flag during a demonstration following cross-border clashes in Asadabad, capital of Kunar province, bordering Pakistan on May 6, 2013. AFP PHOTO KABUL, May 7, 2013 (AFP) - The Afghan government on Monday summoned a ...

Thirteen Afghan National Army soldiers were shot and killed and one was injured Friday in the Naray district of eastern Kunar Province in Afghanistan, along the Pakistani border, a local official told CNN. They were ambushed around 5 a.m. local ...