A helicopter from the NATO-led foreign force in Afghanistan crashed during an anti-Taliban operation, an Afghan official said Saturday, adding there were foreign troop casualties.

The helicopter came

A military helicopter with the Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) crashed in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, Xinhua reported.

A NATO helicopter crashed during a battle with the Taliban in Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. soldiers and 7 Afghans, the Afghan president said on Saturday, a devastating toll and easily the worst single

Eighteen civilians were killed on Friday morning when their bus ran over a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's Helmand province, police said.

The blast took place in Nahri Sarraj district, 555 km south of

US defence secretary Leon Panetta on Thursday met his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith to discuss a wide range of bilateral and global issues including the war in Afghanistan and global threat from terrorism.

The mayor of Kandahar was assassinated on Wednesday by a suicide bomber who hid explosives in his turban, the third top-ranking official to be slain this month, Afghan officials said.

Mayor Ghu

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

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

Ahmed Wali Karzai, the younger brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and a hugely powerful if controversial figure in southern Afghanistan, was assassinated at his home on Tuesday, officials said.

Pakistan and its leaders consider India as an existential threat to them not terrorism or Afghanistan, said Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the United States.

He said th