An Afghan soldier opened fire on NATO troops Monday, killing two in the latest "green-on-blue" attack in the country, a military statement said.
A senior Pakistani Taliban leader was killed in a NATO airstrike in Afghanistan's volatile northern Kunar province, the NATO-led coalition said Saturday.
Seven American service members were among the 11 people killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
An Afghan policeman opened fire on NATO troops Monday, wounding two in the latest "green-on-blue" attacks in the country, a police official said.
A man wearing the uniform of an Afghan national police officer shot and killed three members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in violence-plagued southern Afghanistan, the coalition said.
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Three NATO service members were killed Saturday during attacks in Afghanistan, while a fourth died of noncombat-related injuries, according to the International Security Assistance Force.
A man wearing an Afghan National Army uniform shot at coalition service members in eastern Afghanistan Friday, killing one, officials said.
A NATO-led International Security Assistance Force helicopter crashed Friday in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, killing 12 people, ISAF said in a statement.
A large crowd swarmed a military base and numerous demonstrations turned deadly Friday in Afghanistan, the fourth day of fallout after NATO troops burned Qurans at a military base, officials said.
Eight Afghan youths killed in a coalition airstrike last week were mistaken for potential attackers, the International Security Assistance Force said Wednesday.
A man in an Afghan National Army uniform killed a NATO service member in southern Afghanistan, once again bringing a disturbing issue to center stage in the long Asian war -- attacks by local security forces against coalition troops.
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Between 60 and 70 insurgents were killed after attacking an Afghan base and meeting with resistance, according to a spokesman for the governor of southeastern Paktika province.
Five attackers stormed an Italian contractor's compound near the airport in the northwestern Afghan city of Herat Thursday, killing two security guards.
A reporter was killed by a U.S. service member last July in southern Afghanistan in a case of mistaken identity, according to the results of an investigation by NATO's International Security Assistance Force.
Three members of NATO's International Security Assistance Force died in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday, according to an ISAF statement.
Three Afghan civilians were killed and four were wounded when at least one French soldier opened fire on their vehicle in northeastern Afghanistan late Tuesday evening, officials said.
Two coalition service members were killed Saturday in separate attacks in southern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said.
A top Haqqani network leader suspected of providing support for Tuesday's deadly attack at a Kabul hotel was killed in an airstrike in southeast Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said Thursday.
The Afghan government on Wednesday blamed an al Qaeda-linked militant group based in Pakistan for the siege on a Kabul hotel that left 12 victims and all nine attackers dead.
Two international service members were killed in a shootout at an Afghan police compound, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Friday.
The NATO alliance in Afghanistan anticipates insurgents will attempt to launch an extensive new round of attacks against U.S. and coalition forces as well as Afghan civilians "in the coming days," according to an International Security Assistance Force military official.
A coalition helicopter crew member died and another was injured in a crash Saturday in eastern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
A suicide bomber wearing an Afghan military uniform killed five foreign soldiers at a military base in eastern Afghanistan, the International Security Assistance Force said Saturday.
Two NATO-led soldiers died in a friendly fire incident in southern Afghanistan, and a civilian was killed in an accident with a coalition convoy in the Afghan capital, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Just days after the governor of an northeastern Afghanistan province claimed dozens of civilians were killed in a NATO-led mission targeting insurgents, new allegations of civilian casualties surfaced in a nearby province Thursday.
The governor of Afghanistan's Kunar province said Sunday that 64 people, including some civilians, were killed in a joint operation by NATO's International Security Assistance Force and Afghan security forces over the past few days.
At least 19 people were killed and 49 wounded when armed attackers targeted a police headquarters in southern Afghanistan Saturday, Afghan and NATO officials said.
Coalition troops "accidentally killed" two Afghan civilians and injured one "during a firefight with insurgents" last week, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Tuesday.
A suicide bombing Monday in Afghanistan's volatile Kandahar province killed one person and wounded five others, the International Security Assistance Force said.
A U.S. Marine shot and killed a uniformed Afghan police officer after a dispute Saturday, NATO said, prompting an investigation by the alliance's International Security Assistance Force.
Two troops were killed Saturday in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
At least 14 civilians died when a mini-bus struck a road mine in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, a provincial official said.
Afghan and NATO troops killed 10 insurgents during separate sweeps in southern and eastern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Monday.
Two troops were killed on Tuesday in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
A potential attack against the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan appeared to be thwarted Friday as a joint Afghan and international military patrol killed two men during an operation in Kabul, according to an International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) statement.
The NATO command in Afghanistan is investigating the deaths of five civilians during a skirmish Tuesday in the south.
The International Security Assistance Force announced Monday that it is investigating a possible friendly fire incident in southern Afghanistan that resulted in the death of a British soldier.
A service member was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said Thursday.
Six U.S. troops died Monday when a gunman in an Afghan Border Police uniform fired on NATO-led service members, the Pentagon said.
Three young civilians in southern Afghanistan were killed by a bomb Friday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Violence tore through Afghanistan on Saturday in three deadly insurgent attacks, authorities said.
A vehicle bomb exploded near a military base on the edge of Kabul Friday, injuring at least one person, authorities said.
The NATO-led command in Afghanistan said insurgent fighters were responsible for scores of civilian casualties in October -- more than 100 deaths and 200 injuries.
A senior Taliban military leader was one of 15 people killed in weekend airstrikes in northeastern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Tuesday.
Coalition airstrikes reportedly killed more than ten people in northeastern Afghanistan Sunday, the International Security Assistance Force said. Afghan and coalition forces have not been able confirm the reports of the number of people killed, ISAF said.
Officials on Monday were investigating how a man in NATO custody died.
Eight NATO troops were killed in Afghanistan Thursday, bringing the number of foreign troop deaths in the past two days to 14, the International Security Assistance Force said.
NATO forces killed five armed men in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, and the command is investigating allegations of civilian casualties, the International Security Assistance Force said.
An improvised explosive device blast in southern Afghanistan killed one child and wounded another in Helmand Province, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Saturday, the same day it reported that security forces killed a senior Taliban leader in the eastern part of the country.
More than 30 insurgents died in an air assault staged by Afghan and coalition forces in eastern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Saturday.
Two newsmen who were detained by security forces earlier this week in Afghanistan have been freed, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said on Friday.
A bombing in southern Afghanistan killed a coalition service member on Wednesday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
An Afghan official in charge of pilgrimages and trips to the hajj died along with his bodyguard Wednesday in an explosion from a motorcycle-borne improvised explosive device, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Seven International Security Assistance Force service members were killed in two incidents Monday in southern Afghanistan, the military said.
Afghan and coalition soldiers killed more than 30 insurgents, including 13 would-be suicide bombers, as they fought off assaults on two military bases and government buildings in eastern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said on Sunday.
Afghan and international forces captured a senior Taliban commander in Logar provice, NATO's International Security Assistance Force announced Sunday.
The bodies of five kidnapped parliamentary campaign workers were found Sunday in a remote district of Herat province in western Afghanistan, said Naqibullah Arwin, spokesman for the provincial governor.
NATO authorities said they haven't found evidence to conclude that coalition helicopters were responsible for the deaths of three Afghan police officers last week in northern Afghanistan.
Afghan and coalition soldiers fought off assaults on two military bases Saturday and killed more than 20 insurgents, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Two private security contractors in Afghanistan were killed by coalition forces who mistook them for insurgents, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said Saturday.
Investigators were traveling to western Afghanistan on Thursday to probe a shootout that killed two Spanish soldiers, an interpreter and a police officer.
Three Afghan police officers were accidentally killed in an airstrike and a bomb killed five Afghan civilians in separate incidents in northern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said on Saturday.
Afghan and coalition forces accidentally killed a woman and two children during a pursuit of a Taliban facilitator, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Saturday.
Afghan and coalition troops targeting a fundamentalist Muslim insurgent group killed three of its fighters, including a commander, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Friday.
Two U.S. Marines were killed in southern Afghanistan Saturday while a prisoner was trying to escape, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force announced Monday.
An explosives-laden vehicle driven by a suicide bomber detonated before reaching its target Monday, killing five Afghan children and injuring an Afghan police officer, according to a statement by the U.S.-led international military force.
Insurgents killed six Afghan civilians and wounded three more in improvised explosive device attacks in Afghanistan on Wednesday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Thursday.
A unmanned aerial vehicle went down in northern Afghanistan on Wednesday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Taliban militants beheaded six Afghan police officers during a raid in northern Baghlan province, officials said Wednesday.
updated: Wed Jul 21 2010 19:19:00
NATO says a raid by Taliban militants in Afghanistan left six police officers dead. CNN's Atia Abawi reports.
Military authorities are investigating the shooting deaths of two U.S. civilians and an Afghan soldier by another Afghan soldier in the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif Tuesday.
About 1.9 tons of processed heroin, 1,800 pounds of raw opium and 200 pounds of "illegal fertilizer" commonly used to make bombs were discovered by troops during a security operation in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Saturday.
Three members of NATO's International Security Assistance Force and five civilians died Tuesday during an insurgent attack against Afghan National Civil Order Police headquarters in Kandahar, the force said in a statement.
Villagers in eastern Afghanistan repelled an insurgent attack Tuesday, an incident that left an Afghan civilian and "numerous" Taliban dead, the NATO-led command said.
Military authorities have determined that a NATO airstrike that killed 6 Afghan soldiers Wednesday in eastern Afghanistan was the result of a miscommunication between coalition and national forces.
Two NATO service members died in separate attacks Thursday, the International Security Assistance Force said.
A motorcycle laden with explosives detonated Sunday at a market in Helmand Province, killing five people -- including four children -- and injuring eight others, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Saturday.
Two civilians were accidentally killed when Afghan and coalition troops were searching for a Taliban commander, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Saturday.
Two Taliban commanders were detained after an operation conducted in Afghanistan's Helmand province, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said Sunday.
Two coalition service members died in an insurgent attack in southern Afghanistan on Friday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
A suicide car bomb targeting a police headquarters injured three officers and three civilians in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, authorities said.
Aircrews from the Afghan National Army Air Corps and from the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force have found the wreckage of the plane that crashed Monday with 44 people aboard, ISAF said Thursday.
NATO-led troops fired on a bus in southern Afghanistan on Monday morning, killing four civilians and wounding 18 others, officials said.
The Afghan government is blaming Pakistani intelligence agents and al Qaeda for burned Qurans found in Helmand Province last week, a spokesman for the provincial government said.
NATO's International Security Assistance Force called Wednesday for a joint investigation into a weekend U.S.-led operation, after the Afghan government alleged that 10 civilians were killed.
The 41 other nations contributing to the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan have had to wait to hear U.S. President Barack Obama's plans. But in the end he has come down firmly on the side of the "One More Push" brigade rather than those urging "Let's Cut our Losses and Quit."
Security forces in southern Afghanistan seized a huge stash of bomb-making material, NATO's International Security Assistance Force reported Tuesday.
The NATO command in Afghanistan said Thursday it is investigating a rocket strike in Helmand province, and claims of civilian casualties.
The bodies of three American contractors who died in a plane crash in Afghanistan earlier this month have been recovered, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Tuesday.
A suicide car bombing exploded outside the NATO headquarters in Afghanistan early Saturday, killing seven people and injuring 91 just five days before the country holds presidential elections, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
An Afghan man was killed in an airstrike by coalition soldiers supporting NATO-led forces in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
Intense fighting between troops and militants has unfolded over the past few days in a hotbed of insurgents and narcotics trafficking in southern Afghanistan, NATO said in a statement Wednesday.
NATO-led forces have killed 18 suspected insurgents in a strike in eastern Afghanistan's Konar province.
Eight civilians were killed and at least eight others were wounded Wednesday when a roadside bomb struck a mini-bus in eastern Afghanistan, the NATO command said.
NATO-led troops killed a senior militant and nine of his associates Saturday in an operation that targeted his house, officials said.
Two NATO-led soldiers were killed on Sunday in southern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Five Afghan civilians and one police officer died Saturday in a car bomb attack targeting a police checkpoint in the country's northeastern region, the NATO command reported.
A suicide bomber detonated explosives in western Kabul on Sunday, killing at least two people, police said.
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