An attack in which the Taliban claimed to have infiltrated key government sites in downtown Kabul killed at least five people Monday morning, hospital and government officials said.
Two Afghans died when a bomb exploded outside a U.S. military base on the outskirts of Kabul on Friday morning, a spokesman for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said.
Three U.N. staff members were killed in a firefight in central Kabul on Wednesday morning, a U.N. spokesman said.
A strong earthquake rumbled deep beneath mountainous regions northeast of Kabul early Friday, waking residents and sending some into the streets.
Afghanistan's reputation as the world's leading narcotics supplier is well-known, but in a squalid ruin in Kabul, the country hides a darker secret -- a huge home grown drug addiction problem now on the brink of fueling an HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Fourteen employees of a U.S. security contractor accused of wrongdoing at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan have been fired and were leaving the country, the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan said Friday.
The parent company of a security contractor said Thursday it is "fully cooperating" in the investigation of allegations that the contractor allowed mistreatment, sexual activity and intimidation within the ranks of private guards hired to protect the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan.
Police in northeast Afghanistan prevented two bomb attacks Thursday, as the country held presidential and provincial elections, authorities said.
Police stormed a bank and killed three armed robbers Wednesday in Afghanistan's capital after their robbery attempt had escalated into a gun battle with security officers.
The Afghan capital, Kabul, came under attack Tuesday, two days before national elections. The violence included a rocket attack that damaged the presidential palace and a deadly suicide strike.
An attack in which the Taliban claimed to have infiltrated key government sites in downtown Kabul killed at least five people Monday morning, hospital and government officials said.
Two Afghans died when a bomb exploded outside a U.S. military base on the outskirts of Kabul on Friday morning, a spokesman for NATO-led forces in Afghanistan said.
Three U.N. staff members were killed in a firefight in central Kabul on Wednesday morning, a U.N. spokesman said.
A strong earthquake rumbled deep beneath mountainous regions northeast of Kabul early Friday, waking residents and sending some into the streets.
Afghanistan's reputation as the world's leading narcotics supplier is well-known, but in a squalid ruin in Kabul, the country hides a darker secret -- a huge home grown drug addiction problem now on the brink of fueling an HIV/AIDS epidemic.
Fourteen employees of a U.S. security contractor accused of wrongdoing at the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan have been fired and were leaving the country, the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan said Friday.
The parent company of a security contractor said Thursday it is "fully cooperating" in the investigation of allegations that the contractor allowed mistreatment, sexual activity and intimidation within the ranks of private guards hired to protect the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan.
Police in northeast Afghanistan prevented two bomb attacks Thursday, as the country held presidential and provincial elections, authorities said.
Police stormed a bank and killed three armed robbers Wednesday in Afghanistan's capital after their robbery attempt had escalated into a gun battle with security officers.
The Afghan capital, Kabul, came under attack Tuesday, two days before national elections. The violence included a rocket attack that damaged the presidential palace and a deadly suicide strike.
A rocket struck the compound of the presidential palace in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, two days before national elections, a palace official said Tuesday.
A suicide car bombing exploded outside the NATO headquarters in Afghanistan early Saturday, killing seven people and injuring 91 just five days before the country holds presidential elections, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
Chapter 1: Security Any Muslim can invite anyone working for the slave government in Kabul to quit their job and remove themselves from the corrupt administration.
As a journalist, as a human being, the stories of the people around you stick with you. Whether it is in passing memory or in daily wonderment, they are in your mind and many in your heart, engrained forever.
A top Taliban commander has told CNN his insurgents are poised and ready to attack Kabul and could strike virtually anywhere in the city.
The Taliban insurgency is widening its presence in Afghanistan and "closing a noose around Kabul," an international think tank report says.
A suicide bomber on a bicycle detonated explosives Sunday near a car from the German Embassy in Kabul, a local police official said.
A suicide car bomb blast, apparently targeting a military convoy, killed four people and wounded 15 others in Kabul Thursday morning, officials said.
Gunmen kidnapped a French aid worker in Kabul Monday and shot dead an Afghan intelligence official who tried to rescue him, police said.
Security officials in Afghanistan say gunmen have kidnapped a French aid worker in Kabul.
Taliban militants stormed a government building in the center of the Afghan capital and one of them blew himself up inside, killing five people
A Briton and a South African, killed in Kabul Saturday, were shot by a security guard who then took his own life, an Afghan Interior Ministry official said Sunday.
Afghan authorities have arrested 13 people, including employees of DHL courier service, after a shooting killed two foreign nationals and a security guard in Kabul Saturday, an Interior Ministry official said.
Over the years, I've found myself in some dangerous places, from Baghdad to Kabul, Ramallah to Rwanda.
A routine drive reminds TIME's correspondent that Kabul is surrounded by an encroaching tide of Taliban violence and criminality
An explosion in Kabul on Wednesday wounded a senior police official and killed two of his bodyguards, authorities said.
The Afghan police ordered 7,000 officers onto the streets of Kabul to guard against attacks on senior leaders during Independence Day celebrations Monday
Security was tightened in and around Kabul on Sunday with 7,000 additional police officers deployed ahead of Monday's 89th observance of Afghanistan's independence from Great Britain.
U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops clashed with and called in airstrikes on Taliban militants in western Afghanistan, killing and wounding more than 25 insurgents
Violence has dipped in Iraq, but surges in Afghanistan. A veteran diplomat explains why more troops won't help
A car bomb went off on a crowded street Monday near the Indian Embassy in Afghanistan, killing at least 41 people and wounding more than 100, officials said.
Nobody's saying so, but many will quietly point the finger at Pakistan over a deadly attack on India's Kabul embassy
A remote-controlled bomb targeting a mini-bus carrying Afghan army personnel went off in Kabul Sunday morning, killing a woman and wounding five others, police said.
A suicide bomber rammed his sedan into a convoy carrying U.S. troops near the Kabul airport Thursday, killing at least six civilians and wounding 18 others, authorities said.
Suicide bombers killed seven people, including a leading provincial official, in two attacks in and near mosques in Afghanistan on Thursday.
For Westerners living in the Afghan capital, the attack on a prized social sanctuary may mark the end of their access to streets and the people they're here to help
At least five people and a suicide bomber were killed in a Monday attack on a luxury hotel in Kabul, while six others were wounded, officials said.
Detainees at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan are talking to relatives for the first time in years after the Red Cross set up a system for video-conference calls, the agency said Monday.
A suicide car bomber rammed a minibus filled with Afghan National Army soldiers south of Kabul Wednesday, killing 13 people, including six soldiers, said military spokesman Gen. Mohammed Zahir Azimi.
Ten years after a global pact to outlaw land mines, Afghanistan has seen genuine progress
Three attacks in four days highlight the deteriorating security situation in the Afghan capital as ordinary Afghans find themselves increasingly in the crosshairs
A suicide bomber plowed into three vehicles at Kabul International Airport's military gate, killing one Afghan soldier and wounding four other people on Friday, Afghan's Interior Ministry told CNN.
A Canadian soldier based in the Afghan capital, Kabul, died of a gunshot wound Wednesday after he was found injured in his room, the defense ministry said.
Afghan police freed a female German hostage from a Kabul neighborhood and arrested a group of kidnappers early Monday, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.
A German woman is the latest victim of a trend that is targeting not only foreigners but locals as well
Armed assailants abducted a German woman from a restaurant in Kabul on Saturday, officials said, as a Taliban spokesman said negotiations over 19 South Korean hostages held since July have failed.
Hundreds of U.S. and Afghan soldiers have embarked on a major operation against militants in the eastern Afghan region of Tora Bora, near the border with Pakistan, officials have told CNN.
With the country unraveling Kabul's newly renovated airport may simply serve as a gateway for the Western exodus
In a chilling parallel to the violence that has now engulfed Iraq, a suicide bomber attacks the police force in Kabul
A suicide bomber walked on to a bus carrying officers to a police academy and detonated himself in Kabul, killing at least 35 police officers, police say.
Three gunmen fatally shot a female owner of a radio station in northern Afghanistan early Wednesday, less than a week after another female reporter was gunned down in her house
A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. Embassy convoy in Kabul on Monday morning on a busy highway injuring several people, an embassy spokesman told CNN.
A powerful explosion ripped through the Old City section of Kabul Wednesday morning, killing at least 13 people and injuring 15 others, Kabul's chief of police said.
An Italian soldier serving with NATO's International Security Assistance Forces died late Wednesday when his armored vehicle overturned on a steep incline outside of Kabul, an ISAF statement said.
My first day in Afghanistan's capital began with a warning.
One day you're shopping in Kabul's famous Chicken Street; the next you're in a locked down military base listening to gunfire ripple across the city.
The driver of a U.S. military truck intentionally struck unoccupied vehicles in a Kabul street Monday in an attempt to avoid pedestrians after the truck's brakes failed, the U.S. military said its initial investigation shows.
At least eight people were killed and more than 100 injured on Monday in Afghanistan's capital from riots after a U.S. military truck crashed into a crowd of pedestrians, military and Afghan officials said.
A rocket attack caused a large explosion late Wednesday in a district of Afghanistan's capital that houses embassies and the headquarters of NATO's peacekeeping mission, a NATO spokesman said.
SAAD MOHSENI WORKS THE departure lounge at Dubai's Terminal 2 like a Davos pro. Okay, this isn't exactly the Swiss Alps--it's 100° F in the desert outside--but 6 A.M. is the best time to meet the real road warriors of world business, people like Mohseni, Central Asia's newest media czar.
The U.S.-led coalition said Afghan and coalition forces had "stymied" militant designs to disrupt voting in Afghanistan's parliamentary elections on Sunday.
A huge explosion at an ammunition dump in a northern Afghan village has killed 28 people and wounded 70, the international peacekeeping force said.
The U.S.'s National Transportation Safety Board says it has sent a team to Afghanistan to aid the investigation of last week's plane crash southwest of Kabul.
A search and rescue team has arrived at the wreckage of an Afghan passenger jet that crashed last week in mountainous terrain southwest of Kabul, spending a few hours on the mountain, acording to a NATO spokeswoman.
Rescue teams have located the wreckage of an Afghan passenger jet that crashed two days ago with 104 people aboard, but severe weather and mountainous terrain have prevented rescuers from reaching the site.
Bad weather forced rescuers to call off their search for a missing Afghan passenger jet with 104 people aboard that went missing near Kabul during a snow storm a day earlier.
Three U.N. workers abducted in Kabul nearly a month ago were freed on Tuesday morning, a spokesman for the NATO-led peacekeeping force said.
An American woman and a Afghan girl have died of wounds sustained in a suicide grenade attack in the center of of Kabul that also injured three international peacekeepers.
A suicide grenade attack in the center of the Afghan capital of Kabul Saturday injured seven people, including three international peacekeepers.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Afghanistan when an explosion rocked their convoy, a U.S. military spokesman said Saturday.
A rocket has exploded near the U.S. military compound in Kabul one day before Afghans vote to elect their president for the first time.
An Afghan court has found three Americans guilty of torturing Afghans in a private jail, a case that comes on the heels of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal in Iraq.
An explosion that destroyed a building in downtown Kabul killed 9 people -- at least three of them Americans -- and wounded at least seven others, witnesses said.
Afghan authorities have arrested three American citizens accused of running a fake prison in Kabul, U.S. State Department and Afghan officials say.
One Norwegian soldier has been killed while another was wounded in a grenade attack on the eastern outskirts of the Afghan capital of Kabul.
More details have emerged on the identities of two Western men who were found stoned to death in the Chelsatone Garden area of Kabul a day earlier.
An explosion near a British military base in the Afghan capital of Kabul has killed a British soldier and wounded four others, the British Ministry of Defense has confirmed.
A suicide bombing in Kabul has killed one Canadian soldier and wounded three others, a spokesman for the NATO-led security force said.
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN--As the U.S. lays the groundwork for war with Iraq, Afghanistan is still struggling with the difficult process that follows such a conflict: nation building. I saw the challenge...
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