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

The military said Wednesday that U.S. airstrikes in Afghanistan on Aug. 22 killed 33 civilians, far more than it had acknowledged amid Afghan claims of 90 civilian deaths. ...more

October 9, 2008

Afghanistan's president criticized civilian casualties from foreign bombing raids, telling world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday that innocent deaths can seriously undermine the legitimacy of efforts to fight terrorism. ...more

September 25, 2008

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin made her diplomatic debut Tuesday, meeting with two heads of state who had traveled to New York for the opening of the United Nation's General Assembly. ...more

September 24, 2008

WASHINGTON - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is scheduled to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai next week in New York, campaign officials for GOP nominee John McCain confirmed Saturday. ...more

September 20, 2008

An American military investigation concluded Tuesday that five to seven civilians and 30 to 35 Taliban were killed in an airstrike operation in western Afghanistan last month, far lower than the figure of 90 civilians that Afghan and United Nations officials found in preliminary investigations. ...more

September 3, 2008

After a week of tense public disagreement over the civilian casualty toll in a U.S.-led raid in western Afghanistan, officials from the United Nations, the Afghan government and the NATO-led force in the country said Saturday that all sides had agreed to a joint investigation. ...more

August 31, 2008

Afghan officials said Thursday that a deadly U.S.-led special forces raid on a remote western village last week was based on misleading information provided by a rival clan. ...more

August 29, 2008

Taliban insurgents once derided as a ragtag rabble unable to match U.S. troops have transformed into a fighting force - one advanced enough to mount massive conventional attacks and claim American lives at a record pace. ...more

August 25, 2008

President Hamid Karzai on Saturday strongly condemned a coalition airstrike that he said killed up to 95 Afghan civilians - including 50 children - in a village in western Afghanistan on Friday, and said his government would be announcing initiatives to prevent such heavy losses of civilian life. ...more

August 24, 2008