Allied forces suffered a day of heavy losses in Afghanistan Friday after a helicopter crash killed six U.S. Marines and an attack killed four French soldiers, prompting Paris to consider an early troop withdrawal.
A suicide bomber in a car blew himself up in front of an airport in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least seven civilians, police said.
Nick Paton Walsh has reaction from Afghanistan on the video purporting to show Marines urinating on corpses.
A terrorist attack in Afghanistan Thursday killed five people, including a government official and his two sons, officials said.
Afghanistan's Taliban on Thursday cautioned that its recent support of peace talks doesn't mean that its militants will stop fighting or accept "the constitution of a stooge Kabul administration."
The Taliban is opening an office in Qatar, which may lead to negotiations with the U.S. CNN's Jill Dougherty reports.
A shoot-out at a government building in Afghanistan has left seven people dead, including three police officers, Afghan's interior ministry said Tuesday.
The beheaded bodies of 10 Pakistani soldiers were found in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan on Monday, a senior government official said.
At least five coalition troops were killed in southern Afghanistan Friday, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Afghanistan's president is speeding up the transfer of the U.S.-run prison at Bagram to Afghan control within a month after hearing a report citing problems at the facility, including human rights issues.
U.S. military leaders say the situation on the ground in Afghanistan is improving. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
Four people were killed in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province Friday when a civilian vehicle hit a roadside bomb, according to the country's Interior Ministry.
Police in Afghanistan say they have rescued a 15-year-old girl who was locked up in the basement of her in-laws' house, starved and had her nails pulled out.
China National Petroleum Corp. won the first oil deal in Afghanistan earlier this week, signing a contract with the Afghan government to develop a small oil field in the northern part of the country.
A suicide bomber targeted a funeral procession Sunday in the northeastern Afghan city of Taloqan, killing about 20 people, police said.
Prime Minister David Cameron met with British troops in Afghanistan in a previously unannounced visit to Kandahar, his office announced late Tuesday.
An Afghan woman imprisoned for adultery after a relative raped her has been freed after President Hamid Karzai intervened on her behalf.
When it comes to the fight between the United States and Iran over the downed U.S. drone, keep Afghanistan out of it.
The highest-ranking Afghan military officer in southern Afghanistan, Gen. Abdul Hameed, has survived an assassination attempt -- but just barely.
Five people -- including a local police chief and two bodyguards -- were killed Friday in a bomb attack in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunar province, according to the province's governor.
Ten years after the fall of the Taliban, the horrific attack in Kabul on Shiite worshippers, in which nearly 60 people were killed, bolsters the prevailing perception that the Afghan War is a hopeless conflict with no end in sight. Politicians from across the political spectrum in the United States and other states that supported the mission are rushing to the exit door amid mounting public opposition and deteriorating economies.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh explains why today's suicide bomber attacks in Kabul are unprecedented.
The deadly attack in Kabul on Shi'ite worshippers celebrating the feast of Ashura adds one more layer to the country's overlapping security crises. And they evoke violent sectarian rivalries in Iraq and Pakistan, where animosity between Sunni and Shia runs deep. Afghanistan has its own cultural rifts -- between ethnic Pashtun and Tajik, for example -- but it's rare to see such an explosion of religiously motivated violence.
A suicide bomber detonated a device at a Shiite shrine in Kabul. Today is the Shiite holy day of Ashura.
Tuesday's deadly suicide attack targeting Afghan Shia just didn't fit the pattern of what had come before in this troubled country.
Bomb blasts across Afghanistan kill dozens. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
An explosion in Afghanistan's northern Balkh province Tuesday killed four civilians, police said.
Delegations from various countries and international organizations meet in Germany to discuss Afghanistan's future.
The Taliban could make a comeback and take over Afghanistan again, the country's President Hamid Karzai warned Monday at an international conference on Afghanistan's future.
Four children and a woman were killed by a roadside bomb in restive central Afghanistan on Monday afternoon, according to police.
Ten years ago, Afghan leaders met outside Bonn, Germany, to lay out a road map to establish and sustain Afghanistan's government after the fall of the Taliban.
CNN's Reza Sayah talks to one family who suffered a loss in a NATO airstrike on Pakistan.
Seven Afghan militants were killed and five Pakistani security forces injured in a cross-border skirmish Friday, officials said.
A top advisor to Afghan President Hamid Karzai tells CNN that his country may be on course toward conflict with Pakistan.
As a writer, one of my most important responsibilities is listening. I try to do so with an open mind, so I can hear the voices of the characters whose stories I will tell. When I wrote about Afghan women in my second novel, I thought about the brave women I had met in Kabul and about their stories. Their voices came to me in hushed whispers. At times they woke me in the night with the urgency of what they had to say. I am indebted to those women, because without them, my novels would lack authenticity and would also be far less likely to resonate with readers.
CNN talks to Zainab Salbi, founder and CEO of Women for Women Intl., about the lack of women's rights in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan's president asked Pakistan to reconsider its decision on Tuesday to boycott an upcoming conference on the future of Afghanistan.
Call it the ultimate in military logistics. As land routes from Pakistan into Afghanistan are cut, sabotaged or otherwise interrupted, the U.S. military has developed alternative railroad routes that make the Orient Express look like a branch line.
Chris Lawrence reports on the mistaken NATO air attack on Pakistani military outposts in which 24 soldiers were killed.
Two rockets were fired into the Afghan capital on Thursday as President Hamid Karzai met tribal elders to discuss the future of U.S. military presence in the nation, authorities said.
Some Afghan officials worry conditions might worsen soon after U.S. troops leave, as CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
Afghan security forces on Monday killed a suicide bomber near where an important meeting of tribal elders will be held in the capital, Kabul, this week, the nation's Interior Ministry said.
Earlier this year CNN's Arwa Damon spoke to a gay serviceman about the repeal of the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
A suicide attack near a mosque in northern Afghanistan killed at least seven people Sunday, the first day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, the interior ministry said.
There's plenty of grunting and groaning during the early morning workouts in the gym at the JFK Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. But suddenly among the young men in special forces units doing pull-ups and lifting weights, there are dozens of young female troops -- running an obstacle course, pushing and pulling hundreds of pounds of kettlebells, running laps.
The investigation into the suicide bombing that killed 17 people on Saturday suggests it was the work of the Pakistan-based Haqqani network, an Afghan official said Monday.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports NATO has confirmed 8 civilians and 5 troops were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul.
Nine Americans, including four U.S. troops, were among those killed in a suicide bombing in Afghanistan's capital this weekend, a western diplomat told CNN Sunday.
At least 17 people were killed in central Kabul on Saturday when a suicide bomber struck a vehicle in a military convoy, according to officials.
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Insurgents launched attacks Thursday on a Provincial Reconstruction Team base and a military outpost in Afghanistan, Afghan and NATO officials said.
More than a year after remarks he made in a controversial Rolling Stone article cost him his job, retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal is heading back to Afghanistan -- at the invitation of the country's presidential palace.
At least 10 people died and 35 others were injured Wednesday when a tanker filled with tons of fuel and strapped with a mine exploded near a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan, a government official said.
An assassination attempt on Afghanistan's interior minister failed when a suicide bomber was shot dead by body guards Sunday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
From dusk until dawn, 12-year-old Fayaz toils at his uncle's blacksmith shop in Kabul.
A talk with the filmmakers of "Unnoticed: Children of Kabul" -- a film about child labor in Afghanistan.
The August downing of a Chinook helicopter in Afghanistan that killed 38 people, including 17 U.S. Navy SEALs, was caused by a rocket-propelled grenade, fired by insurgents, that struck the aircraft's aft rotor blade, the U.S. Central Command officially confirmed on Wednesday.
Four kidnapped Afghans who worked for a French aid agency have been released, the group said Tuesday.
At least five Afghan militants and one Pakistani soldier were killed Sunday night when scores of militants crossed into Pakistan and attacked a military checkpoint, a Pakistani military spokesman said Monday.
On his knees, Nawroz prays. He is a condemned man about to die in a brutal way.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh talks to a man who, at age 16, watched the first bombs fall in Afghanistan 10 years ago.
The Taliban have been forced out of power, Osama bin Laden is dead, and al Qaeda, by many accounts, is not nearly as powerful as it once was.
America's veterans are proud of their military service, but in a new report published Wednesday, they expressed ambivalence about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Eight NATO troops have died in Afghanistan over the past two days, seven of them from war-related causes, the International Security Assistance Force said.
Pakistan's prime minister Thursday rejected accusations made by a top U.S. military official last week that the Haqqani terrorist network is a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's intelligence services.
The first CIA agents landed in Afghanistan on September 26, 2001, beginning direct American efforts to overthrow the Taliban. Ten years later, the United States is still fighting the Taliban, and the recent assassination of Burhanuddin Rabbani, leader of Afghanistan's High Peace Council, shows that we are far from total victory.
A suicide attacker detonated explosives packed in his car outside a police station in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
A key Afghan leader was killed by a militant suicide bomber. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
A roadside bomb has killed nine civilians, including five children in Afghanistan's northern Faryab province, an area often considered to be among the country's more stable regions.
After a 20-hour battle, a Taliban assault on the U.S. Embassy and NATO command center in central Kabul was brought to a bloody end Wednesday with the deaths of half a dozen militants.
CNN's Suzanne Malveaux walks through the building where terrorists tried to launch an attack against the U.S. Embassy.
CNN's Jim Clancy reports on recent militant attacks on coalition targets in Kabul.
The U.S. embassy and other centers of power in Kabul come under attack by insurgents. CNN's Barbara Starr reports.
Fighting that raged for hours in Kabul Tuesday afternoon after a dramatic Taliban attack on the U.S. Embassy and NATO's command calmed down greatly during the evening hours, a military spokesman told CNN
Explosions and gunfire in the heart of Kabul got plenty of attention Tuesday as insurgents attacked the heart of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan.
A push to build local police forces in Afghanistan has been "plagued by failures of vetting and oversight," according to a report released Monday.
At least two people died after Taliban militants struck a coalition base in Afghanistan on eve of the 9/11 anniversary.
CNN's Jim Clancy recalls his first encounter with the Taliban in Afghanistan and the effect of 9/11 on the world.
Our neighbors have a dog. I'm not sure what breed it is, but it's big and barks a lot. I don't pay it much attention, but my kids are scared of it. Once the dog was allowed outside the yard, and it knocked my daughter over. She wasn't hurt, but the memory has never left her, and to this day she gives the dog and the neighbor's yard a wide berth.
Three NATO-led service members died following an insurgent attack Friday in eastern Afghanistan, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said.
Billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer funds are being spent to send diplomats and other civilians to Afghanistan without proper understanding of how the money is spent and how expenses may keep going up, a new report concludes.
Somalia, Myanmar and Afghanistan have the lowest scores on Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures how people in 178 countries and territories view corruption in their public sectors.
According to the Commission on Wartime Contracts, the Pentagon wasted at least $60 billion in Afghanistan and Iraq.
A nonpartisan panel reporting to Congress says the United States is wasting $12 million a day among contracts issued in support of American efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A senior British Cabinet Minister risked an embarrassing diplomatic row Tuesday after accidentally revealing confidential documents that appeared to welcome the departure of Afghanistan's president.
A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near a bank in southwest Afghanistan on Saturday, killing four people, a governor's spokesman said.
Police arrested a 16-year-old boy who was planning a suicide attack at a mosque in northeastern Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry said Saturday.
Some of the 30 service members killed in the August 6 helicopter attack in Afghanistan will be buried during a funeral service Friday in Virginia, officials said.
The Taliban is taking credit for suicide bombings at the British Council in Kabul. David Ariosto reports.
A truck bomb ripped through the main security gate of a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing at least two local guards and injuring nine others, the International Security Assistance Force said.
The U.S. amb. to Afghanistan talks to CNN's Kristie Lu Stout about the handover of security operations to Afghan forces.
Whether it's an Army helmet with a thicker shell and better padding, or underwear that can protect a Marine private's privates, the U.S. military is looking at sending the latest gear to Afghanistan so the troops can come home safe and sound.
A few years ago I came across a newspaper article about illegal human trafficking into the EU.
Five American service members were killed Thursday after an improvised explosive device detonated in southern Afghanistan, officials said.
The names of the soldiers and inside President Obama's visit with their grieving families
CNN's Barbara Starr reports, Navy SEALs killed in a chopper crash in Afghanistan were en route to rescue other troops.
The shooting down of a Chinook helicopter in central Afghanistan with the loss of 38 lives -- most of them U.S. Navy SEALs -- highlights two crucial aspects of the conflict in Afghanistan, as U.S. forces begin to draw down and Afghan security forces start taking the lead.
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