A battle between NATO and Afghan troops and Taliban militants Friday afternoon in southern Afghanistan on Friday afternoon left dozens of civilians killed, locals said on Saturday. Meanwhile, doctors confirmed that seven injured children have been taken to the local hospital. "All the ...

Two U.S. Navy service members disappeared in a dangerous area of eastern Afghanistan, prompting a massive air and ground search and appeals on local radio stations for their safe return, NATO and Afghan officials said.

A nuclear-powered U.S. supercarrier led an armada of warships in exercises off the Korean peninsula on Sunday that North Korea has vowed to physically block and says could escalate into nuclear war.

ISAF_ Sitting at their stations inside the control tower, Gh Masoom Masoomi and Milad Hazrati wait for an inbound flight to touchdown at Kabul International Airport (KAIA). In nearly any other country this would not be significant -- but in Afghanistan it's a sign of progress. Masoomi and ...

Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers, assisted by members of a Marine Corps Special Operations Team, found and destroyed 14 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Badghis province .

The UN Security Council on Friday extended a welcome to a major international conference on Afghanistan, which just concluded in the Afghan capital of Kabul, and voiced its willingness to joint the world efforts to build a peaceful Afghanistan.

At least 16 people were killed and many others injured in a Saturday morning US drone strike in Pakistan's northwest tribal area of South Waziristan, local media Geo News reported.

Makarov said Russia is interested in successful operations of the international force and renders real assistance to the NATO contingent in Afghanistan.

The Taliban denounced this week's international conference on Afghanistan's future, saying the "vague and terrible agenda" shows that the U.S. and its allies intend to abandon the country and blame their ultimate defeat on the Afghan government.

This incident once again demonstrates the brutal, barbaric and senseless acts committed by the Taliban," said Col. Rafael Torres, ISAF Joint Command Combined Joint Operations Center director.

An Afghan soldier opened fire at a training session on Tuesday, killing two US civilian trainers and a fellow Afghan soldier in the second such shootout in a week, raising further questions over the preparedness of the Afghan national army.

The one-day international conference on the Afghanistan -- the Kabul Conference opened in Afghan capital Kabul on Tuesday morning amid tight security and wrapped up in the afternoon with renewing support to the post-Taliban country.

"We are clear here that BP should be blamed for what has happened in the Gulf, and have real responsibilities to cap the well, to clean up the spill, to pay compensation," said Cameron.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai is urging international partners to help his country move toward responsibility for its own security and for government programs as an international conference opens in the Afghan capital.

The strategy sits for now on a table in a locked-down Afghan capital: Hand over security in all 34 provinces to the government by the end of 2014 - more than three years after President Barack Obama's date for the start of an American troop drawdown.

In an interview with BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Fox said "It has always been our aim to be successful in the mission and the mission has always said that the Afghan national security forces would be able to deal with their own security by 2014."

Police have blocked the roads and streets leading to Presidential Palace, Foreign Ministry and diplomat enclave and even do not allow pedestrians to enter the above areas.

United States Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Pakistani counterpart Shah Mehmood Qureshi Monday opened "Strategic Dialogue" to discuss cooperation in several areas, officials said.

The money will focus on vital energy and water sectors, said the official, adding that full details of the projects would be announced on Monday.

An explosion rocked east of Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, leaving two people dead and 20 others injured, all civilians," deputy to Kabul police chief Syed Abdul Ghafar Syedzada said.