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Early indications point to a low initial turnout, as Taliban has pledged to disrupt today's balloting.

Afghanistan's government on Wednesday called for a media blackout on reporting violence as fresh attacks threatened disruptions a day ahead of pivotal presidential elections.

The explosions and a suicide bombing that killed three soldiers seemed further indications of Afghanistan’s precarious security situation just days before elections.

An Afghan militant group is willing to "help" U.S. and coalition forces, if they prepare to leave Afghanistan, the group's leader said in a statement given to CNN on Monday.

Removal of a top U.S. commander shows Pentagon's view that officers must be adept at working the battlefield -- and Washington.

A huge explosion occurred near the main gate of NATO headquarters in the Afghan capital on Saturday, a heavily guarded area ...

Taliban militants fired at least nine rockets at the Afghan capital in a pre-dawn attack on Tuesday, police said, injuring a child and causing some damage in the biggest such attack in years.

The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan reached two solemn milestones Monday: July has become the deadliest month for U.S. troops in ...

Two U.S. soldiers also die in a separate bombing as violence grows in scattered areas of the nation. A powerful truck bomb killed at least 25 people today, more than half of them schoolchildren, in a province just south of Kabul.

Thousands of U.S. Marines poured from helicopters and armored vehicles into Taliban-controlled villages in southern Afghanistan ...