An 8-year-old boy was hanged by suspected members of the Taliban in Afghanistan's Helmand province, after the boy's father-a police commander, refused to comply with militants’ demands.

The boy was

The Taliban on Wednesday said Mullah Omar was still alive, accusing the Americans of hacking into their phones after a text message sent to media from a spokesman's phone said the leader was dead.

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A senior adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been murdered at his home near the parliament in Kabul, a senior government official told the media on Sunday.

Jan Mohammad Khan, former governor

The first group of about 10,000 US soldiers due to leave Afghanistan this year have already left, military officials said today, kicking off a gradual drawdown due to be completed in 2014.

Five civilians were killed in one of the deadliest parts of Southern Afghanistan when their mini-van drove over a land mine, a provincial government spokesman said today.

A new video showing young children training as ‘martyrs’ at a secret Al Qaeda camp in Pakistan’s North Waziristan province has surfaced, raising fears of future attacks.

The shocking video shows todd

A Russian cargo plane crashed into treacherous mountains in eastern Afghanistan overnight and casualties were feared, with reports indicating eight people were on board, senior officials said on Wedn

A Russian-made Ilyushin-76 cargo plane chartered by the US military crashed into a mountaintop in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Wednesday, as fears rose for the fate of its nine-member Azerbaijani crew.

Roadside bombs have killed 17 people in southern Afghanistan, including 13 who died when an explosion ripped through the van they were traveling in on Saturday morning, the government said.

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Ten people, all Afghan civilians, were killed in a Taliban attack on a leading hotel in the Afghan capital Kabul, police said Wednesday.

"Unfortunately as a result of this terrorist attack, 10 of our