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With bombs the main killer of Americans in Afghanistan, the U.S. started an effort to stop the flow of ammonium nitrate, their basic ingredient, into the country.

Nearly all Afghans want their government to make peace with the Taliban despite their growing dislike for the insurgency, according to a survey funded in part by the U.S. government.

The insurgents didn't need to fire a shot in the strategic Khogyani district. Government forces regain control after a few hours, but the fate of the abductees is unknown.The Taliban didn't even need to fire a shot.

Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden threatens in a new audio tape to kill French citizens to avenge their country's support for the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan and a new law that will ban face-covering Muslim veils.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that once or twice a year Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses ...

October has been a calamitous month for the Taliban guerrillas waging war from sandy mountains and pistachio forests in this corner of northwestern Afghanistan.

In one of the most devastating attacks in CIA history, officers failed to search an Al Qaeda double agent before he entered a December meeting at their base in a remote part of Afghanistan, and he detonated a huge bomb.

A Scottish aid worker who was taken hostage two weeks ago by the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan was killed Saturday during an unsuccessful rescue raid.

Afghan private security forces with ties to the Taliban have been hired to guard U.S. military bases in Afghanistan, exposing U.S. soldiers to attack, a Senate investigation found.

Taliban representatives and the government of Afghan President Hamid Karzai have begun secret, high-level talks over a negotiated end to the war, according to Afghan and Arab sources.