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Special forces free aid workers in Afghanistan

NATO special forces rescued two foreign women hostages and killed five kidnappers in a daring night raid on a cave in ...

Afghan civilian death drop 21 percent

The number of civilians killed in the Afghan war in the first four months of this year has dropped by 21 percent over ...

Senior Al-Qaeda militant killed in Afghanistan

NATO said Tuesday that Al-Qaeda`s second in command in Afghanistan had been killed in an air strike near the Pakistani ...

US drones kill 8 militants in Pakistan: officials

Two separate US drone attacks killed at least eight militants in Pakistan`s northwestern tribal region near the Afghan ...

British soldier killed in Afghanistan blast

A British soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device while on patrol in Afghanistan, the defence ministry ...

8 civilians killed in NATO air strike in Afghanistan

Eight civilians were killed Saturday night in an air strike conducted by the NATO-led coalition forces in the eastern ...

Hollande defends French exit in Afghanistan

President Francois Hollande told troops in Afghanistan on Friday that France will coordinate closely with NATO allies ...

Pakistani jailed for 33 years over Bin Laden hunt: officials

A Pakistani surgeon recruited by the CIA to help find Osama bin Laden was jailed on Wednesday for 33 years for ...

6 Taliban dead, 2 Afghan police hurt in clashes

Clashes between Taliban militants and Afghan police left six insurgents dead and two policemen injured on Tuesday, ...

Threats sent to embassies in Pakistan: police

Several Western embassies in Islamabad on Wednesday received letters containing suspicious powder and threats to ...

250 Afghan students hospitalized after being poisoned

At least 250 boy students were poisoned Tuesday at a high school in Afghanistan`s eastern province of Khost, a ...

Pakistan poised to reopen NATO supply lines

Pakistan on Tuesday looked poised to end a nearly six-month blockade of NATO ground supply routes into Afghanistan, ...

Bomb kills seven in Afghan market

A remotely-detonated bomb ripped through a bazaar in northwestern Afghanistan on Monday, killing seven civilians, ...

4 NATO soldiers die in southern Afghanistan

Four NATO soldiers lost their lives during separate incidents in restive southern Afghanistan, the military alliance ...

US coalition forces admit Afghan civilian deaths

NATO and US forces in Afghanistan admitted Friday that a number of civilians were killed in two separate airstrikes, ...