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Afghan security forces in the southern city of Kandahar on today were fighting Taliban insurgents who raided the city's sprawling airport late on Tuesday, officials said.

At least seven policemen were killed today in an ambush in northern Afghanistan, provincial officials said, highlighting the challenges facing local forces battling the Taliban without NATO combat help.

The US and NATO ceremonially ended their combat mission in Afghanistan today, 13 years after the September 11 terror attacks sparked their invasion of the country to topple the Taliban-led Government.

Afghan troops have launched a counter-offensives to beat back a five-day Taliban attack that targeted several southern districts previously protected by departing NATO forces, officials said on Thursday.

An Afghan officer says two roadside bombings in the southern city of Kandahar have killed one policeman and wounded four.

Five members of the US-led NATO force in Afghanistan died in a helicopter crash in the south of the country on Saturday, NATO officials said, adding the cause of the incident was being investigated.

Seven US soldiers were killed in two separate attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, NATO and Western officials in Kabul said, capping off one of the bloodiest weeks for international forces this year.

Roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan killed three NATO service members and nine Afghans on Tuesday, officials said, clear evidence that the insurgents' annual spring offensive is underway.

A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American civilian died in a separate attack in the east.

Six NATO personnel were killed on Saturday in two separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials said, in the deadliest day for foreign forces this year.

NATO officials say a helicopter has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing one coalition service member and injuring another.

The pipeline is expected to be ready by 2018, and will supply gas to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

President Hamid Karzai's brother said on Thursday that US-led coalition forces mistakenly killed one of the President's cousins during a raid in southern Afghanistan.NATO forces stormed 65-year-old Mohammad Karzai's home in the southern city of Kandahar late Wednesday, killing him and detaining his son, according to the President's brother, Ahmad W...

A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban has killed 15 civilians in a dangerous and remote region of southern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.The attack happened Friday afternoon as a pickup truck carrying villagers to a nearby bazaar rolled over the bomb, detonating it in the Khan Neshin district of Helmand province, said Daoud Ahmadi, spokesma...

In the newly won districts around this southern city, American forces are encountering empty homes and farm buildings left so heavily booby-trapped by Taliban insurgents that the Americans have been systematically destroying hundreds of them, according to local Afghan authorities.The campaign, a major departure from NATO practice in past military o...

Afghan security forces in the southern city of Kandahar on today were fighting Taliban insurgents who raided the city's sprawling airport late on Tuesday, officials said.

At least seven policemen were killed today in an ambush in northern Afghanistan, provincial officials said, highlighting the challenges facing local forces battling the Taliban without NATO combat help.

The US and NATO ceremonially ended their combat mission in Afghanistan today, 13 years after the September 11 terror attacks sparked their invasion of the country to topple the Taliban-led Government.

Afghan troops have launched a counter-offensives to beat back a five-day Taliban attack that targeted several southern districts previously protected by departing NATO forces, officials said on Thursday.

An Afghan officer says two roadside bombings in the southern city of Kandahar have killed one policeman and wounded four.

Five members of the US-led NATO force in Afghanistan died in a helicopter crash in the south of the country on Saturday, NATO officials said, adding the cause of the incident was being investigated.

Seven US soldiers were killed in two separate attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, NATO and Western officials in Kabul said, capping off one of the bloodiest weeks for international forces this year.

Roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan killed three NATO service members and nine Afghans on Tuesday, officials said, clear evidence that the insurgents' annual spring offensive is underway.

A car bomb blast killed five Americans, including three U.S. soldiers and a young diplomat, on Saturday, while an American civilian died in a separate attack in the east.

Six NATO personnel were killed on Saturday in two separate attacks in Afghanistan, officials said, in the deadliest day for foreign forces this year.

NATO officials say a helicopter has crashed in southern Afghanistan, killing one coalition service member and injuring another.

The pipeline is expected to be ready by 2018, and will supply gas to India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

President Hamid Karzai's brother said on Thursday that US-led coalition forces mistakenly killed one of the President's cousins during a raid in southern Afghanistan.NATO forces stormed 65-year-old Mohammad Karzai's home in the southern city of Kandahar late Wednesday, killing him and detaining his son, according to the President's brother, Ahmad W...

A roadside bomb planted by the Taliban has killed 15 civilians in a dangerous and remote region of southern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday.The attack happened Friday afternoon as a pickup truck carrying villagers to a nearby bazaar rolled over the bomb, detonating it in the Khan Neshin district of Helmand province, said Daoud Ahmadi, spokesma...

In the newly won districts around this southern city, American forces are encountering empty homes and farm buildings left so heavily booby-trapped by Taliban insurgents that the Americans have been systematically destroying hundreds of them, according to local Afghan authorities.The campaign, a major departure from NATO practice in past military o...