Afghan forces killed 14 militants including their commander in Wardak province, 40 km west of Kabul, an official spokesman said on Sunday.

General David Petraeus formally assumed command of the 130,000-strong international force in Afghanistan on Sunday, declaring “we are in this to win” despite rising casualties and growing scepticism a

Six suicide bombers attacked a USAID compound on Friday in northern Afghanistan, killing at least four people and wounding several others, officials said.
Two of the dead were foreigners.

Afghan and Nato-led troops have eliminated 31 militants and captured the Taliban district chief in Helmand province of Afghanistan, an official spokesman said on Thursday.

Gunmen set off a car bomb and fired rocket propelled grenades at one of the biggest Nato bases in Afghanistan on Wednesday in a brazen daylight attack claimed by the hardline Islamist Taliban.

The Afghan capital was rocked on Saturday by an accidental blast as Washington’s military chief promised business as usual despite the sacking of the US commander of foreign forces.

Two international troops were reported killed and the bodies of 11 men, some beheaded, were found on Friday in rising violence across Afghan-istan.

Afghanistan expressed regret on Thursday at the removal of the US commander credited with reducing civilian casualties in the war against the Taliban but said it did not expect the shake-up to bring s

Nato and Afghan forces captured a senior Taliban figure in an overnight raid, the international force said on Tuesday in a statement.

Two explosions minutes apart rocked a provincial capital in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing a child and wounding at least 23 other people.