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Karzai invites Taliban leaders for direct talks

Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday invited the Taliban leadership to direct talks with his government, while ...

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 ...

Taliban deny talks with Afghan government

Taliban insurgents Thursday denied that they had begun talks with the Afghan government. The Taliban "strongly ...

US missiles kill 13 in Pakistan: officials

Two US drone strikes struck Islamist militants in Pakistan`s tribal badlands on Thursday, killing at least 13 fighters ...

Taliban deny talks with Afghan government

Taliban insurgents Thursday denied that they had begun talks with the Afghan government alongside early contacts over ...

British airman killed in Afghanistan attack: ministry

A British airman was shot dead on Monday in an insurgent attack in Afghanistan, the 398th serviceperson to die since ...

Top US envoy met Taliban in Qatar: Afghan official

Washington`s chief envoy to Afghanistan met Taliban leaders in Qatar as part of US efforts to bring the insurgents to ...

Anthrax parcel sent to Pakistan pm`s house: police

Pakistani police said Wednesday they were investigating how and why a parcel containing anthrax was sent to the prime ...

Suicide bomber kills four in Pakistan: police

A suicide bomber killed an Islamist militant commander in Pakistan`s northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, along ...

Afghan peace council member kidnapped by Taliban

The Taliban have kidnapped a member of Afghanistan`s peace council during a bid to promote talks in the volatile east, ...

Suicide attack kills four in Afghan city, wounds 34

A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy in the southern Afghan city of Lashkar Gah on Thursday, killing at least ...

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 ...

France reaffirms right to decide on early Afghan pullout

France insisted Sunday it reserved the right to decide on a possible early pullout of forces from Afghanistan despite ...

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 ...

Suicide attack kills seven at Afghan airport

A suicide bomber killed at least seven people and wounded eight Thursday in an attack at Kandahar international ...