Seven US soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Afghan government forces have been engaged in a deadly battle with Taliban fighters at a police checkpoint in the south of the country, local officials have said. The interior ministry told Al Jazeera on Tuesday that five police officers and 25 ...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, May 21 (Xinhua) -- An Afghan provincial official said Tuesday that four Afghan policemen and 26 militants have been killed in ongoing clashes in the country's southern province of Helmand. "Militants numbered hundreds ...

Key points - Pakistanis have voted in landmark election set to mark the first transfer of power between two elected civilian governments in its history - Reports of irregularities in Karachi prompted the election commission to say the vote ...

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - The United States accepts that a diminished but resilient Taliban is likely to remain a military threat in some parts of Afghanistan long after U.S. troops complete their combat mission next year, the top U.S.

"Eleven children and a woman were killed when an air strike hit their houses," said Wasefullah Wasefi, a spokesman for the provincial governor, adding that civilian homes had been hit during an air attack. 0During the NATO operation initially ...

A car bomb attack has killed six people, including three United States soldiers and an Afghan doctor, in southern Afghanistan. The attacks came as the top US general, Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in the country for ...

At least 53 people were killed and 90 others wounded Wednesday in an insurgent attack on an Afghanistan governor's compound where Taliban fighters were facing trial, local officials said. Nine insurgents with explosives strapped to their bodies ...