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Afghanistan announces muslim eid holiday ceasefire with Taliban

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday announced a ceasefire with Taliban insurgents from Monday to mark the ...

80 Afghan police killed every weks in `fighting season`

Nearly 80 Afghan police have died every week during the current fighting season, officials said Tuesday, as the ...

Microphone bomb kills Afghan governor at Eid prayers

A bomb hidden in a microphone killed an Afghan provincial governor Tuesday as he made a speech at a mosque after Eid ...

UN defends recommendation to postpone Afghanistan trip

The United Nations defended on Wednesday its recommendation that the 15-member U.N. Security Council postpone a ...

Allen mad about attacks on US troops in Afghanistan

The top US commander in Afghanistan, General John Allen said he was "mad as hell" about attacks by Afghan soldiers on ...

Taliban kill three Afghan soldiers

Taliban insurgents gunned down three Afghan army soldiers after kidnapping them in eastern Afghanistan, local ...

Hollande says NATO allies understand Afghan position

French President Francois Hollande said on Sunday that he had reached agreement with his NATO allies over his decision ...

Man in Afghan uniform kills NATO soldier: ISAF

A soldier with NATO`s US-led coalition in Afghanistan was killed by a man in Afghan army uniform on Sunday, a ...

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 ...

Panetta acknowledges troubling events in afghanistan

The US defense chief held talks in Afghanistan on Wednesday, acknowledging that a series of "deeply troubling" ...

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 ...

Bodies of four French troops return home from Afghanistan

The bodies of four French soldiers were flown home Sunday, two days after their deaths at the hands of an Afghan ...

Afghan soldier kills NATO colleague: security sources

An Afghan soldier shot dead a NATO colleague and was himself killed when a dispute ended in a shoot-out on Sunday, an ...

Australia to speed up Afghan withdrawal

Australia will dramatically cut the number of soldiers it has serving in Afghanistan over the next year, bringing ...

Rouge Afghan soldier shoots three Australians

A rogue Afghan soldier was on the run Wednesday after shooting and wounding three Australian troops, days after a ...