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AFP wins first pulitzer prize

Agence France-Presse won its first Pulitzer Prize on Monday as Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini scooped up the ...

Attacks in Kabul won`t shake NATO strategy: spokeswoman

NATO spokesman Oana Lungescu stressed on Monday that the coordinated Taliban attacks on Sunday in Afghanistan would do ...

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 ...

Britain says all its embassy staff in Kabul "accounted for"

All British embassy staff in Kabul have been "accounted for" amid explosions and heavy gunfire in the diplomatic ...

German embassy in Kabul damaged in attacks

Germany's embassy in Kabul was damaged Sunday but no one is believed to be injured, the foreign ministry said after ...

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 ...

Militants attack Pakistan jail, over 300 escape

More than 300 prisoners escaped from a jail in northwest Pakistan early on Sunday, after it was attacked by Islamist ...

suicide bomber kills 5 in northern Afghanistan

At least five people, including three civilians, were killed late Thursday when a suicide bomber struck in northern ...

Afghanistan to launch space satelite in six months

The post-Taliban Afghanistan will launch the first-ever space satellite within six months, a local newspaper said on ...

NATO death in Afghanistan pass 100 for 2012

The number of NATO troops killed in Afghanistan so far this year has passed 100, according to an AFP count on ...

Pakistan parliament debate on U.S. sputters to halt

A parliamentary debate in Pakistan on the relationship with the United States has stalled on domestic politics, even ...

Two UN workers, four Shiites killed in Pakistan: police

Gunmen separately killed four Shiite Muslims and two local UN employees Thursday in Baluchistan, a Pakistani province ...

Afghan police find 17 tonnes of explosives

Afghan police in the southern province of Kandahar have seized at least 17 tonnes of explosives insurgents were ...

Pakistan Taliban to attack lawmakers if Afghan supply routes reopen

The Pakistan Taliban will attack lawmakers if they decide to re-open NATO supply routes to Afghanistan, the militant ...