A suicide bomber infiltrated a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, killing at least eight Americans in what is thought to be the deadliest single attack on U.S. intelligence personnel in the eight-year-long war and one of the deadliest in the agency's history, U.S. officials said. ...more

December 31, 2009

A suicide bomber who infiltrated a CIA base in eastern Afghanistan killed eight Americans on Wednesday in one of the deadliest attacks on U.S. intelligence operations ever. Also, four Canadian troops and a female reporter imbedded with their unit were killed when their vehicle hit a bomb during an afternoon patrol in the south of the country. ...more

December 31, 2009

Eight Americans died today in a suicide bombing at a military base in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. officials said. ...more

December 30, 2009

A U.S. service member was killed by a bomb planted in eastern Afghanistan, NATO said Sunday. ...more

December 6, 2009

An American civilian working alongside U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan has been killed in an insurgent attack. ...more

August 17, 2009

A Pakistani decision to temporarily bar some trucks from a key passageway to Afghanistan threatened a critical supply route for U.S. and NATO troops on Sunday and raised more fears about deteriorating security in the militant-plagued border region. ...more

November 17, 2008

U.S. soldiers of Duke Task Force patrol outside their base in Asad Abad on Monday, near the Pakistani border in the Kunar province of eastern Afghanistan. Insurgents exchanged fire with U.S. troops aboard a Black Hawk helicopter in central Afghanistan on Monday before the aircraft was hit and forced to land. The crew was rescued, but in the north a suicide bomber killed two U.S. soldiers. ...more

October 28, 2008

A suicide bomber drove a car into a crowd of workers at the gates of a U.S. military base in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 12 workers and wounding 22 others, Afghan officials said. ...more

August 19, 2008

Sen. Barack Obama arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday, opening a high-stakes foreign trip in a country that is increasingly the focus of his clash with Sen. John McCain in the presidential campaign over whether the war in Iraq has been a distraction in hunting down terrorists. ...more

July 20, 2008

NATO warplanes hunting Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan mistakenly bombed an Afghan road construction crew sleeping in tents, killing 14 workers, Afghan officials said Wednesday. ...more

November 29, 2007