Middle East
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29 Nov 2011
Pakistan is to boycott talks on Afghanistan's future in protest at a Nato air strike which killed 24 of its soldiers at...
19 Nov 2011
Two Afghan police officers have been killed in a clash with Nato-led forces who were conducting a night-time raid, say...
16 Nov 2011
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told a meeting of tribal elders that a security pact with the US is in the best...
14 Nov 2011
The Taliban in Afghanistan says it has obtained a government security plan for the grand assembly of leaders, or loya...
11 Nov 2011
A group of armed men have stoned and shot dead a woman and her daughter in Afghanistan's Ghazni province, security...
3 Nov 2011
Militants have carried out a suicide gun and bomb attack on a private construction company in the western Afghan city of...
20 Oct 2011
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in Afghanistan to encourage President Hamid Karzai to continue efforts to...
26 Sep 2011
An Afghan employee has killed one US citizen and wounded another before being shot dead at a compound believed to house...
6 Sep 2011
The Nato-led mission in Afghanistan has suspended the transfer of detainees to several Afghan jails, following torture...
27 Aug 2011
At least 200 Taliban fighters crossed from Afghanistan into Pakistan and killed more than 25 soldiers and police,...
1 Aug 2011
The top US military officer has said the border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan is still the world's most...
20 Jul 2011
British troops in Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province are handing control of the city of Lashkar Gah to Afghan...
18 Jul 2011
Footage appearing to show the execution-style killing of 16 policemen in the restive north-west of Pakistan has been...
12 Jul 2011
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy has said the country will withdraw 1,000 troops stationed in Afghanistan by the end...
12 Jul 2011
The half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been assassinated in Kandahar. Ahmad Wali Karzai, a leading power...
9 Jul 2011
New US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said the US is "within reach of strategically defeating al-Qaeda". Mr Panetta...
29 Jun 2011
Nato helicopters were called in to kill three militants to end a five-hour clash by suicide bombers and gunmen on a...
28 Jun 2011
The governor of Afghanistan's central bank, Abdul Qadeer Fitrat, has resigned, saying he feels his life is in danger...
27 Jun 2011
A husband and wife carried out a suicide attack that killed eight people at a police station in north-western Pakistan,...
23 Jun 2011
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has announced the phased withdrawal of its 4,000 soldiers serving in Afghanistan. A...
18 Jun 2011
The US is engaged in talks with the Taliban, Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said, in the first high-level...
4 Jun 2011
Four foreign troops have been killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan, the Nato-led International Security...
30 May 2011
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has forcefully condemned the killing of 14 civilians in the south-west of the country in a...
28 May 2011
The police commander for northern Afghanistan has been killed in a suicide bomb attack on the provincial governor's...
19 May 2011
At least 35 construction workers have been shot dead and 20 injured by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan, an...
18 May 2011
At least 12 people have been shot and killed by security forces in northern Afghanistan during a protest against a...
14 May 2011
Authorities in the US have charged six people with providing financial support to the Pakistani Taliban. Three are US...
8 May 2011
Afghan security forces are battling Taliban insurgents for a second successive day inside the southern city of Kandahar....
13 Apr 2011
A suicide bomber has killed at least 10 people in an attack on tribal elders in eastern Afghanistan, the interior...
2 Apr 2011
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has condemned an attack on a UN building in Afghanistan as "outrageous and cowardly"....
1 Apr 2011
At least seven foreign UN workers have been killed after protesters stormed a UN compound in the Afghan city of Mazar-e...
22 Mar 2011
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has named seven areas of the country which will pass from control by foreign troops...
9 Mar 2011
There has been a large increase in the number of civilians killed in the war in Afghanistan for the second year in a...
7 Mar 2011
Robert Gates was speaking during an unannounced visit to the Afghan capital Kabul, where he is discussing the future of...
2 Feb 2011
The US can win the Afghan war even if Pakistan does not shut down militant safe havens on its side of the border, a top...
1 Feb 2011
The number of civilians killed in Afghanistan since the US-led invasion a decade ago hit record levels last year,...
24 Dec 2010
At least three soldiers and 24 militants have been killed in a series of clashes in a tribal region of north-western...
26 Jul 2010
Leaked US military records on the war in Afghanistan, which were posted on the Wikileaks website as the Afghan War...
20 Jul 2010
Afghan leader Hamid Karzai has opened an international conference in Kabul, renewing a call for his country to control...
19 Jul 2010
Some 70 countries are set to attend a historic conference in the Afghan capital Kabul amid some of the deadliest...
18 May 2010
At least seven people have been killed and 29 injured in a suicide car bomb attack targeting a Nato convoy in the Afghan...
29 Apr 2010
Taliban militants have resumed targeted killings of local leaders in Pakistan's troubled Swat valley, officials have...