An Afghan police commander says Pakistani General Hedayat Urrahman admitted at a meeting on the Pakistani-Afghan border that terrorists occupy safe havens in Pakistan.
The United States and its allies share some interests with Iran when it comes to stabilizing Afghanistan, Army General David Petraeus, head of the U.S. military's Central Command, has said.
A bomb has killed three U.S. soldiers in southern Afghanistan, hours after a suicide bomber killed 10 Afghan civilians and two Afghan policemen in a separate attack in the south, officials said.
The Afghan government says that some 2 million workers in the country are unemployed.
Breaking one of his country’s taboos, Afghan filmmaker Abdul Rashid Azimi has made a movie about rape, a prevalent wartime crime that has scarred many women's lives. In a country where rape victims and their relatives prefer to keep silent -- fearing shame and disgrace -- the filmmaker is drawing attention to Afghan society’s prejudices and its tragic consequences.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned a U.S.-led coalition military operation that reportedly killed 17 civilians, including women and children.
Afghan police in the central Afghan province of Bamiyan have arrested a man on charges of raping a teenage girl.
In an unprecedented show of solidarity, the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan have pledged joint efforts in combating terrorism, which they declared a menace to regional peace and stability. The move came during Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari's first official visit to Afghanistan.
U.S.-led coalition forces killed 32 insurgents in fighting that erupted in a village in eastern Afghanistan following a raid on a hideout of bomb makers, the U.S. military has said.
Residents of Pakistan's western Pashtun border regions are suddenly facing the threat of severe punishment, including the death penalty, for acts ranging from drinking alcohol to sending their daughters to school. The new restrictions are the work of the Taliban, which has established Shari'a law in territory under its control. Local political leaders say the Taliban's moves are an attempt to establish a parallel government in the region.
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari is paying his first official visit to Afghanistan, where he'll meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai for talks expected to focus on how to tackle the Taliban and Al-Qaeda insurgencies in both countries.
NATO's British forces say they are checking a report that some civilians were killed during an operation against the Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand, a spokesman said.
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