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MOSCOW, May 23 Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, expects the Taliban influence in Afghanistan to grow after international coalition forces are pulled out, while rising radicalism in Syria could lead to the country's disintegration, the GRU chief said on Thursday.

Artefacts such as a Buddhist sculpture have been extracted from the Mes Aynak archaeology site where miners want to extract rich deposits of copper.

The world is becoming an increasingly dangerous place for those on the move or uprooted from their homes by violence and persecution.

In order to reduce the number of boots on the ground in Afghanistan, the Pentagon asked Congress for $9.6 billion of its allowance to be moved from one budget line to another.

I have been updated by the commissioner and will chair Cobra shortly. I will make a statement on this sickening killing this morning Asked if local people would be more frightened about having an army base on their doorstep, he said people would carry on as normal What's the point of hiding in your house? You might as well just carry on with your ... (more)

When a suicide bomber detonated an explosive beside the vehicle in which Army Master Sgt.

Kabul--Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the 'The Afghan Atrocities Update' which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians killed by NATO forces.

Addressing media persons in New Delhi, visiting Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said Kabul has given a wish list to India, but did not specify what the list contains.

The Department of Defense officially announced yesterday the death of two soldiers in Afghanistan who were serving in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

Afghanistan is considering the opportunities of connecting the country with Europe and in this context, Azerbaijan plays an important role for Kabul, Ambassador of Afghanistan to NATO Humayun Tandar told journalists in Baku.

Up to 600 Afghan interpreters who worked alongside British troops are to be given the right to live in the UK, government sources have confirmed.

A House committee taking Congress' latest look at the Internal Revenue Service's mistreatment of tea party groups will apparently have to do so without input from the star witness.

The body of a Northern Kentucky veteran who was killed in Afghanistan last week will return to his hometown Wednesday.

"What separates me from someone in the streets of Kabul is such a thin line," says the Afghan-American author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns." "What I have is, in many ways, an undeserved gift." His amazing run continued Tuesday night as he appeared before an overflow crowd at the Barnes & Noble on Manhattan's Union Square.

More women imprisoned for 'moral crimes' as fears grow that hard-won rights are at risk as western troops head home Women demonstrate in Kabul: religious conservatives have blocked a landmark law protecting women from violence.

The body of a U.S. Army veteran from New Mexico is coming home Tuesday following his death in Afghanistan.

Maj. Gen. Paulino speaks about difficult task of n...: The late Sgt. Eugene Aguon's parents were in the Philippines when a Guard notification team approached their Mangilao home Friday.

As of Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at least 2,091 members of the U.S. military had died in Afghanistan as a result of the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to an Associated Press count.

Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the " The Afghan Atrocities Update " which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians killed by NATO forces.

A powerful roadside bomb has killed seven policemen in western Afghanistan as forces were engaged in a deadly battle with large groups of Taliban fighters who attacked police checkpoints in the south, officials have said.