Seven Afghan militants were killed and five Pakistani security forces injured in a cross-border skirmish Friday, officials said.
A roadside bomb has killed nine civilians, including five children in Afghanistan's northern Faryab province, an area often considered to be among the country's more stable regions.
At least 25 security personnel were killed when between 200 and 300 militants attacked border posts along Pakistan's border with Agfhanistan, Pakistan's military said Saturday.
A NATO airstrike targeted a police station in a remote district of Afghanistan's Nuristan province early Monday morning, killing at least four police officers and wounding eight others, officials said.
Taliban militants captured a remote district in northeastern Afghanistan early Monday, officials said.
A senior al Qaeda commander of Saudi origin was killed in an airstrike in northeastern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force said Wednesday.
The body of Dr. Karen Woo, one of 10 volunteer medical aid workers fatally shot August 5 in the remote mountains of northeast Afghanistan, was repatriated Monday from Kabul, the British Foreign Office said.
The aid workers killed in Afghanistan are remembered. CNN's Jill Dougherty reports.
The International Assistance Mission on Monday identified the 10 aid workers killed by gunmen in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, last week. The 10 "were our friends and colleagues from the Nuristan medical eye camp team," the organization said in a statement.
An American man detained in Pakistan while on an alleged hunt for Osama bin Laden arrived back at his home in Colorado late Wednesday night.
U.S. and Afghan troops have secured a district of Nuristan province in Afghanistan in an operation to quell an uprising of insurgents, NATO and Afghan officials said Tuesday.
An investigation into an attack that killed eight U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan last year said the combat outpost was an "attractive target" because protection improvements hadn't been made and intelligence assets had been diverted.
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.
The assault began at dawn, as bullets and rockets peppered the remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan.
The flag-draped coffins of five U.S. soldiers killed during a weekend onslaught against a U.S. military outpost in Afghanistan arrived Tuesday at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, the military said.
U.S. and Afghan troops have abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine American soldiers this week
The U.S. military in eastern Afghanistan said it is starting a "Most Wanted" campaign, with rewards ranging from $20,000 to $200,000 for the capture of 12 midlevel Taliban and al Qaeda leaders.
Eighteen insurgents have been killed in a firefight between coalition soldiers and militants in eastern Afghanistan, while a Canadian soldier died in an accident, military officials said.
Four U.S. soldiers have been killed and another wounded during a battle with militants inside Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, the U.S. military said.
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