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KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 8) - Afghan and coalition forces detained several suspected insurgents in Paktiya province Tuesday while in pursuit of an insurgent commander with ties to both Taliban and Haqqani senior leadership located in Pakistan. The commander's cell is...

The UK's most senior diplomat in Afghanistan has stepped down with immediate effect, the Foreign Office (FCO) has said. Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles was appointed special representative on Afghanistan and Pakistan in March 2009 but has been on extended leave since...

Al Jazeera gains exclusive access to a group of Taliban fighters in Baghlan. In an exclusive report, Al Jazeera's Qais Azimy gains access to a group of Taliban fighters in Baghlan province that is fiercely opposed to next week's parliamentary...

As a US Marine commander criticises the achievements of British forces in the Afghanistan flash point of Musa Qala, Colonel Richard Kemp writes for Channel 4 News how such open criticism will damage relations between the two allies. US Marines...

By Michael Hughes Geopolitical journalist Dexter Filkins's compelling and elucidatory reporting from the ground in Afghanistan is second to none and his latest article in the New York Times entitled "Inside Corrupt-istan, a Loss of Faith in Leaders" is no...

KABUL: At a centre for disadvantaged children in Kabul, shy young girls step up to recite their duties as fasting Muslims for the visiting US ambassador. Teachers look on with pride at young Afghans who were once left at the...

PUL-I-KHUMRI, Afghanistan (AFP) – Taliban rebels ambushed an Afghan district governor in a troubled northern town, killing the official and his driver, police said Tuesday. Ahmad Seroor, the chief administrator for Nahrin district in Baghalan province, was travelling through Baghlan-i-Markazi...

More than a month after they rescued 2,100 people from rising flood waters in Laghman province, members of the Afghan Air Force returned home Sept. 4, 2010, from all Afghan-run humanitarian flood relief mission in Pakistan. Welcomed at Kabul International...

Captain Jeremy Hahn, an armoured vehicle commander with the Royal Dragoon Guards, is based in Kandahar for Operation HERRICK 12. Here he writes about pre-election violence in Kandahar and the comfort of missives from home. With all the grim predictability...

KABUL, Afghanistan (Sept. 7) - Several suspected insurgents were detained Monday in Kandahar during an Afghan-led operation in pursuit of the Taliban district commander for Dand. The commander, who profits from weapons trafficking and coordinates attacks, presides over an illegal...