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President Obama marked the tenth anniversary of the Afghanistan war with a statement praising the U.S. military and pledging to follow through ...

A microbiology professor at Kabul University, a fourth-year medical student and a security guard at the presidential palace were among six people arrested in an alleged plot to assassinate President Hamid Karzai, Afghan officials said Wednesday.

The Taliban hit back with a vengeance following the US-led invasion of 2001.

An Afghan employee killed a U.S. citizen and wounded another at an annex of the American Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, a spokesman said Monday.

Pakistan would not tolerate any incursion on its territory by U.S. forces targeting militant groups, the country's interior minister said on Thursday, calling for Washington to provide the intelligence Islamabad needs to take them out itself.

An unidentified attacker on Tuesday killed former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the leader of Afghanistan’s High Peace Council, whose main responsibility was negotiating a political end to the war with the Taliban.

Ten years after the 9/11 attacks, a FRANCE 24 correspondent in Helmand province found that many Afghans had never heard of them – and have no idea why American troops are there.

U.S. soldiers deployed on the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan say the war isn't going away for another ten years, even after Washington pulls troops from a country locked in a deadly Islamist insurgency.

Military officials in Pakistan announced the arrest of three men on Monday they said were senior Al Qaeda operatives who had been planning attacks on Western targets.

The United States must keep fighting the Taliban or risk more attacks like those of September 11, 2001, because the insurgent group is a ruthless enemy that has not cut ties to al Qaeda, the U.S. ambassador to Kabul said.