A shoot-out at a government building in Afghanistan has left seven people dead, including three police officers, Afghan's interior ministry said Tuesday.
Three Afghan policemen were killed Thursday in an attack on a government office in Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province.
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.
Pakistani security forces and insurgents appear to be collaborating in some cross-border attacks, the deputy U.S. military commander in Afghanistan said Thursday.
The Afghanistan battle that resulted in a rare fatality for a classified Army unit pitted U.S. troops against waves of insurgents who attacked from bunkers and caves, a U.S. military official said Wednesday.
Army Master Sgt. Benjamin A. Stevenson, 36, was on his 10th tour of duty in the war zones of Afghanistan and Iraq when he was killed Thursday in a remote area of eastern Afghanistan.
A U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan in 2009 has received his second promotion while in captivity, U.S. Central Command announced Friday.
A suicide bombing targeting contractors working in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 13 people and wounded 50 others, according to conflicting accounts by NATO and government officials Monday.
Twelve people were killed and five others injured in a mine explosion in southeast Afghanistan's Paktika province Sunday, authorities said.
New video from a production house associated with the Taliban includes scenes of a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan nearly 18 months ago, a family spokesman confirmed Tuesday night.
New video of U.S. Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl, captive of the Taliban since 2009, has been released.
At least eight people were killed Saturday when two suicide bombers attacked the police headquarters in southeastern Afghanistan's Paktika province, a police official said.
The bodies of about 80 people were found on the battlefield a day after attackers clashed with NATO and Afghan forces in southeastern Afghanistan, officials said Sunday.
Eighty people were killed in clashes with NATO and Afghan forces in Paktika province, a spokesman for the province's governor said Saturday.
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.
Coalition troops in southeastern Afghanistan fought off insurgents after a failed assault on a combat outpost on Thursday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Three Americans were killed in Afghanistan Saturday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
An Afghan civilian was killed by a suicide attacker in southeastern Afghanistan on Saturday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
A video purportedly showing a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan last June was posted Wednesday on a radical Web site.
Insurgent fire killed three Afghan women and wounded three people in southeast Afghanistan on Saturday, military officials said.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's second attempt to seat a new Cabinet failed Saturday with the parliament rejecting a majority of his selections.
Fourteen militants and three international troops died in fighting over the past 24 hours in Afghanistan, authorities said Saturday.
Four U.S. service members died in a roadside bombing attack, and two civilians were killed in crossfire during a military operation, military authorities in Afghanistan said Friday.
Afghan presidential election results from five polling stations were declared invalid by the Electoral Complaints Commission on Thursday because of fraud.
Seven suicide bombers dressed as women targeted Afghan police officers about 60 miles from the capital on Tuesday, a police commander said.
A United States soldier captured by the Taliban says in a video posted on the Internet he is "scared I won't be able to go home."
Militants continue to use a material not designed for use as a weapon against people to strike international forces in Afghanistan, the U.S.-coalition said Tuesday.
The convoy was rolling down the road toward Terwa, one of the Paktika Province's regions most sympathetic to the Taliban when we saw some of the scouts had dismounted running onto a hill.
U.S. forces in Afghanistan will "back off" from firing at insurgents if the fighters are using civilian buildings as cover, the U.S. commander in eastern Afghanistan told CNN.
Coalition troops in Afghanistan have delivered a hydro-electric turbine to a vital dam in north Helmand.
A roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan killed four members of the U.S.-led coalition and an Afghan national on Wednesday morning, a U.S. military statement said.
A misunderstanding between local police and coalition forces led to an airstrike in southwestern Afghanistan on Sunday that left nine police officers dead, a defense ministry official said.
An increase in attacks by Taliban fighters operating from Pakistan is a "real concern" in the nearly 7-year-old war in Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday.
Five foreign troops were killed Saturday in Afghanistan, bringing the number of NATO and U.S.-led coalition troop deaths in June to 32 -- more than in Iraq.
Officials say 31 people, mostly foreign fighters, died in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan, but a conflicting report says nine civilians were killed
An American aid worker and her Afghan driver who were kidnapped in Afghanistan a month ago are feared dead, according to their aid group.
Several armed militants including a "a local Taliban commander" were killed early on Friday during battles in southeastern Afghanistan, the U.S.-led coalition said.
Seven children were killed in an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition on a compound in eastern Afghanistan where al Qaeda fighters were believed to be gathered on Sunday, according to a U.S. military statement.
In the Sangin Valley in southern Afghanistan, hundreds of British troops swept into lush poppy fields Monday, drawing hostile fire at the start of a NATO operation to expel the Taliban from a valley stronghold.
NATO's International Security Assistance Forces said Wednesday it has received "credible reports" of civilian casualties -- including women and children -- from at least one of three fights Tuesday involving government, ISAF and Taliban forces in southern Afghanistan.
An Italian soldier serving with NATO's International Security Assistance Forces died late Wednesday when his armored vehicle overturned on a steep incline outside of Kabul, an ISAF statement said.
A coalition soldier was killed Wednesday in an attack in southeastern Afghanistan, the U.S. military announced Thursday.
At least 40 alleged insurgents were killed as part of Operation Mountain Thrust, a military operation aimed at routing out resurgent Taliban fighters who have recently cropped up in southern Afghanistan, the military said Thursday.
A U.S. soldier was killed and four others wounded in Afghanistan when their vehicle was struck by a bomb, bringing the number of American troops to die in the central Asian country this month to 15, American military said Saturday.
An American service member and six insurgents were killed Tuesday in separate incidents in Afghanistan, the coalition command in Kabul said Wednesday.
Two U.S. service members drowned after their Humvee slid into a river near Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan near the Pakistani border, the military said Friday.
An American soldier and seven insurgents were killed in violence in Afghanistan, the U.S. military says.
A U.S. soldier was killed and two others wounded Monday near the southern Afghan city of Kandahar as American troops battled Taliban fighters along the rugged border with Pakistan, a U.S. commander said.
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