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A widow, accused of being pregnant, was executed by the Taliban in western Afghanistan, a provincial governor's spokesman said Monday.

More than 800 people in Pakistan and dozens more in Afghanistan have been killed in floods that have lashed the region for days, officials said Saturday.

The body of a second U.S. sailor who went missing in Afghanistan last week has been recovered, a U.S. defense official said on Thursday.

General has met sharp resistance from the Afghan president to an American plan to assist villagers in fighting the Taliban on their own.

President Obama sacked Gen. Stanley McChrystal as his top commander in Afghanistan and will replace him with Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. ...

The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan has been summoned to Washington to explain derogatory comments about President Barack Obama and his colleagues.

The top U.S. war commander in Afghanistan told an interviewer he felt betrayed by the man the White House chose to be his diplomatic partner, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry ...

Investigation finds U.S. military indirectly paying out millions of dollars to warlords, corrupt public officials and the Taliban to protect supply convoys.

President Barack Obama's war effort in Afghanistan appears to be heading in the wrong direction and possibly toward a crisis, a top Republican who backed Obama's troop buildup said on Tuesday.

Pakistan detained an American armed with a dagger, a pistol and night vision goggles for allegedly trying to sneak into Afghanistan to hunt and kill al Qaeda head Osama bin Laden, police said on Tuesday.