More than 120 girls and three teachers were admitted to an Afghanistan hospital Wednesday after being poisoned in their classes with a type of spray, a Takhar provincial official said.
Two women and three men that were working for an aid group were kidnapped in a remote area of Afghanistan this week, authorities said.
With NATO meeting this week in Chicago to discuss the war in Afghanistan, CNN reached out to some everyday Afghan-Americans to see what they think.
NATO leaders signed off Monday on President Barack Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for an end to combat operations next year and the withdrawal of the U.S.-led international military force by the end of 2014.
A suicide bombing in southeastern Afghanistan killed eight people, including two police officers, Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
France's newly elected President Francois Hollande said Friday that he is sticking to his campaign pledge to remove his country's forces from Afghanistan by the end of the year.
The GOP-controlled House of Representatives on Friday passed a nearly $643 billion defense bill -- a measure at odds with prior military spending agreements and President Barack Obama's Pentagon plans.
Afghanistan's recent signings of strategic partnerships with the United States and other countries have provided a measure of reassurance to Afghans about the international community's sustained engagement in the country beyond 2014, when the drawdown of NATO combat forces will be complete. But these documents are short on specifics and do not fully tackle the political, economic and regional challenges that need to be addressed so the Afghan army and police can take responsibility for the security of the country.
Suicide attackers with explosives stormed a governor's compound in southwestern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing themselves and seven people, officials said.
A bomb exploded inside a shop in the northern Afghanistan province of Faryab on Monday, killing nine people, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry.
Flash flooding in northern Afghanistan killed at least 26 people in northern Afghanistan and rescue workers fear the toll may rise, officials said Monday.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Mike Rogers weigh in on the future of Afghanistan as U.S. troops withdraw.
A soldier serving in Afghanistan is under investigation on allegations involving the production and possession of child pornography and blackmail, the Washington State Patrol said Friday.
President Barack Obama marked the first anniversary of the death of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden with an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, signing a long-awaited strategic partnership agreement meant to set the conditions of an American withdrawal from the war-torn nation.
President Barack Obama, speaking early Wednesday in Afghanistan at the tail end of a surprise visit there, discussed how the war will end and promised a steady drawdown of U.S. troops.
Good evening from Bagram Air Base. This outpost is more than 7,000 miles from home, but for over a decade it has been close to our hearts. Because here, in Afghanistan, more than half a million of our sons and daughters have sacrificed to protect our country.
One year ago, the enemy that had haunted America for nearly a decade met his end in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Two gunmen attacked a governor's compound in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing two police officers, the interior ministry said.
The United States and Afghanistan appeared close to signing a vital diplomatic deal Sunday, a pact that would continue cooperation between the two countries after the planned departure of NATO troops in 2014.
Two service members with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force were killed in a blast in eastern Afghanistan, the force said Monday.
Afghan security officials said Saturday they had seized 10 tonnes of explosives and foiled plans to stage attacks in the capital, Kabul.
The Taliban claimed responsibility Friday for downing a Black Hawk helicopter in southern Afghanistan.
A Black Hawk helicopter crashed Thursday in southern Afghanistan, likely killing all four of its crew members -- all of them Americans -- a U.S. military official said.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh discusses what Australia's troop drawdown will mean for Afghan security.
When Afghan forces repelled a barrage of attacks from insurgents near Kabul's green zone over the weekend it was hailed as proof of how far local security forces had come.
The Taliban says it was behind a string of weekend attacks in Afghanistan.
Nick Paton Walsh accompanied U.S. and Afghan forces on a manhunt for most-wanted militants in the Taliban heartland.
CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports on the explosions and gunfire in central Kabul.
A series of explosions rocked central Kabul early Monday, the day after Afghan security forces said they repulsed a wave of insurgent attacks in the capital and three other provinces.
Two deadly explosions kill dozens in Afghanistan. CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom reports.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports on a new deal between the U.S. and Afghanistan on ending U.S. led raids on local homes.
A fuel tanker ran of the road and burst into flames in southern Afghanistan on Friday, killing seven people, according to a local police official.
The Taliban says it launched a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan that left at at least nine people dead.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports that Taliban influence is growing in the north of Afghanistan.
CNN's Nick Paton Walsh meets some young Afghan female boxers preparing for this year's London Olympics.
Two children have been killed in an acid attack in Afghanistan's eastern Ghazni province, the provincial police chief said Saturday.
An Afghan police officer shot and killed nine other officers in southeast Afghanistan on Thursday night, authorities said.
U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said Tuesday polls would not change the strategy in Afghanistan, underscoring the fact that he realizes the American people have tired of war.
Staff Sgt. Robert Bales has been charged with 17 counts of murder and six counts of assault and attempted murder.
In the busy street markets of Kabul, stacks of cash sit in piles as moneychangers shout the day's exchange rate to shoppers bustling by. Currency is bought and sold in the open air.
Afghans are carrying out an estimated $8 billion in cash a year, concerned by the country's security situation.
It began with scant details released by the military about a heinous allegation: A soldier slipped away from a remote outpost in southern Afghanistan and went on a shooting rampage at nearby villages that left 17 people dead.
Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales could be sentenced to death if convicted on any of the 17 counts of murder filed against him Friday for allegedly embarking on a bloody shooting rampage in Afghan villages, the U.S. military said.
Sen. Carl Levin wants President Obama to stick to a 2014 timetable for pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan
Afghanistan's foreign minister called for a "swift and transparent investigation" into the killings of 16 men, women and children Wednesday as the U.S. soldier arrested in the massacre awaited charges.
A Taliban commander expressed skepticism that one soldier carried out a massacre last week that left 16 Afghan civilians dead, and anger that the suspect subsequently was flown out of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan has taken new steps to combat rampant capital flight after the central bank found that the amount of dollars flown out of Kabul doubled to $4.6bn last year.
Thirteen people were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan's southern Uruzgan province, police said Thursday.
In light of recent violence, Gary Berntsen, former CIA commander, weighs in on America's future strategy in Afghanistan.
President Obama and British PM David Cameron say both countries are on track to achieve goals in Afghanistan by 2014.
The U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 civilians during a weekend rampage has been transferred out of Afghanistan while awaiting charges, the NATO command said late Wednesday.
A look at the timeline of events of the alleged shootings in Afghanistan by a U.S. soldier. CNN's Tom Foreman reports.
An American soldier went on a house-to-house shooting spree in two villages in the Kandahar region of Afghanistan early Sunday, Afghan officials said, killing 16 people.
Nearly two years ago in June 2010, the war in Afghanistan surpassed the Vietnam War to become the longest war in American history. Although the U.S. ousted the Taliban from power and killed Osama bin Laden last year in Pakistan, it is clear that recent incidents, including the tragic killing of civilians by a U.S. soldier, are costing Americans the hearts and minds of the people of Afghanistan.
The past month has been the worst for the United States in Afghanistan since the war began after the attacks of September 11, 2001.
An American soldier went on a house-to-house shooting spree in two villages in southern Afghanistan early Sunday, Afghan officials said, killing 16 people in what Afghanistan's president called an "unforgivable" crime.
Sen. Harry Reid responds to breaking news that a U.S. soldier opened fire on civilians in Afghanistan.
Condolences, calls for justice and questions arose from across the political spectrum Sunday in response to reports that a U.S. soldier shot to death 16 civilians in Afghanistan.
Six UK soldiers are missing and presumed dead following an explosion in southwest Afghanistan, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday.
Avalanches killed at least 37 people Tuesday in a remote northeastern province of Afghanistan and officials feared the death toll would rise.
The United States appeared Monday to raise the possibility there may be no long-term strategic agreement with Afghanistan after American troops withdraw in 2014, a move that comes amid heightened tensions over the burning of Qurans by U.S. soldiers.
Authorities say two gunmen killed two service members with a NATO-led security force in Afghanistan.
A gunman in an Afghan National Army uniform and another man shot dead two NATO soldiers at a combat outpost in southern Afghanistan Thursday, authorities said.
Keeping one American service member in Afghanistan costs between $850,000 and $1.4 million a year, depending on who you ask. But one matter is clear, that cost is going up.
CNN's Barbara Starr looks fallout from the recent killings of U.S. military personnel in Afghanistan.
Troops in white gloves and camouflage carried a pair of flag-draped caskets off an Air Force transport in Delaware Monday as the bodies of two senior U.S. military officers killed inside Afghanistan's interior ministry arrived home.
Nick Paton Walsh reports on the Taliban claiming responsibility for a suicide bombing in Afghanistan after Quran burnings.
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets Saturday across Afghanistan, the fifth day of demonstrations over the burning of Qurans at a U.S. base, officials said.
Violent protests left at least five dead and others wounded Wednesday as demonstrations over Quran burning intensified in Afghanistan.
Protests break out in Afghanistan after troops burned Qurans at Bagram Airfield. CNN's Brian Todd reports.
A man in an Afghan police uniform opened fire on NATO troops in Afghanistan, killing one, NATO said, in what seems to be the latest of dozens of cases of Afghan security forces turning their weapons on international troops who are supposed to be their allies.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Prime Minister David Cameron pledged to work toward lasting stability in Afghanistan in talks Saturday in the United Kingdom.
At least three people were killed and 30 injured in an explosion near the governor's compound in the city of Lashkar Gah in southern Afghanistan Thursday, authorities said.
French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet traveled to Afghanistan to discuss security with local authorities, a spokesman said Saturday, a day after Allied forces suffered heavy losses in the country.
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.
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