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

U.S.-led troops attacked a compound where Taliban leaders were meeting and killed 30 militants, American and Afghan military officials said Friday, but the Interior Ministry said a large number of civilians died. The United States said it would investigate. ...more

August 23, 2008

In Rohullah Nikpai's war-torn country, fighting is a part of life. Living in tough conditions is a given. Training for the Olympics is a luxury few can afford, or even imagine. ...more

August 21, 2008

In the worst single-incident loss of life in at least three years for Western troops in Afghanistan, insurgents ambushed and killed 10 French soldiers and wounded 21 others in a sustained assault a short distance from the capital, military officials said Tuesday. ...more

August 20, 2008

President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday he will seek re-election next year in hopes of finishing a job he said he has not yet completed. ...more

August 20, 2008

On the eve of Sen. Barack Obama's visit to Iraq, its prime minister tried to step back Sunday from an interview in which he appeared to support Obama's plan for troop withdrawal. ...more

July 21, 2008

AFGHANISTAN - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama pledged steadfast aid to Afghanistan in talks with its Western-backed leader Sunday and vowed to pursue the war on terror "with vigor" if he is elected, an Afghan official said. ...more

July 20, 2008

The president of Afghanistan threatened Sunday to send troops into Pakistan if Taliban fighters holed up there continue to cross the border and attack his country. ...more

June 16, 2008

The United States, Europe and more than 60 other countries and international institutions offered about $20 billion in aid for Afghanistan as part of a big donors conference here Thursday. ...more

June 13, 2008