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Afghans will not stand alone: Obama to NATO

US President Barack Obama vowed Monday the international community would not abandon Afghanistan as it seeks to take ...

Afghan protesters accuse NATO of killing 4 children

Hundreds of Afghan demonstrators on Tuesday accused US-led NATO troops of killing four children during clashes with ...

Haqqani militants behind afghan attack: Pentagon

The Pentagon said Monday a major attack on Afghan government buildings, military bases and foreign embassies was ...

Karzai says NATO failed as 18-hr Kabul attack ends

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that a coordinated Taliban attack showed a "failure" by Afghan ...

Afghan security forces kill 47 taliban militants, wound 31

Afghan security forces backed by NATO-led troops have killed 47 Taliban militants and injured 31 others over the past ...

West to pay Afghan military $4 bln a year: Karzai

The international community will subsidise Afghan security forces by more than $4 billion a year for a decade after ...

Suicide bomber attacks NATO convoy, 7 wounded: official

A suicide bomber on a motorcycle attacked a NATO convoy in Afghanistan`s southern province of Kandahar Friday, ...

NATO showing "restraint" in Afghanistan

NATO troops are displaying "great restraint" in Afghanistan in the face of a wave of violent unrest that left four US ...

Afghanistan tells troops to move families from Pakistan

Afghanistan`s defence ministry has begun ordering soldiers who have families in Pakistan to move them to Afghanistan ...

Afghan defense minister warns about US plan

The Afghan defense minister warned late Friday that a US proposal to cut the size of Afghan security forces by more ...

NATO claims "successful year" in Afghanistan

A spokesman for NATO-led forces said Tuesday that 2011 had been a "remarkably successful year" against insurgents in ...

Norway to withdraw most troops from Afghanistan in 2013

Norway will withdraw most of its troops from Afghanistan in 2013, a year before the bulk of NATO`s forces, Norwegian ...

Two Afghan guards killed near west Afghan NATO compound

Insurgents including suicide bombers killed two Afghan guards working for NATO-led troops in an assault on a security ...

Taliban attacks down for first time

The number of Taliban attacks in Afghanistan has declined for the first time in a "welcome" trend in the ten-year-old ...

Two killed in Taliban bus shooting

The Taliban opened fire on a bus in southern Afghanistan Thursday killing two civilians, including a child, and ...