Afghanistan News

European Union (EU) would send some 100 observers to monitor the upcoming Afghan presidential election, spokesman of Independent Election Commission (IEC) Noor Mohammad Noor said Thursday, Xinhua reported.

An explosion Thursday morning rocked Mohammad Agha district in Logar Province, some 50 km south from Afghan capital Kabul, leaving at least 12 people dead and 30 more injured, said Din Mohammad Darwish, the spokesman of provincial administration, Xinhua reported.

Pakistani forces have wrapped up their operation in the Swat Valley and Buner, and the areas have been cleared of militants, the Pakistani Army claims, Press TV reported.

Afghan women are increasingly the victims of violence, including rapes and acid-throwing attacks at the hands of anti-government elements and local chieftains, according to new U.N. report, Associated Press reported.

Up to 50 suspected militants have been killed in two US attacks in north-west Pakistan, local officials told the BBC.

Fourteen new cases of the H1N1 flu virus have been reported among U.S. citizens on the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan, the Afghan Health Ministry said on Wednesday, the second confirmed cases in three months, Xinhua reported.

The government of Afghanistan backs the territorial integrity and sovereignty of China, said a statement of the Afghan Foreign Ministry released here Wednesday, Xinhua reported.

In a rare event in the conservative post-Taliban Afghanistan, 36 couples got married at the same time and same place, officials said Tuesday, reported Xinhua.

Bombs and bullets killed seven American troops on Monday, the deadliest day for U.S. forces in Afghanistan in nearly a year - and a sign that the war being fought in the Taliban heartland of the south and east could now be expanding north, AP reported.

An explosion hits one local bazaar Tuesday morning in eastern Afghan province of Khost, killing one civilian and injuring 20 others, said an official, Xinhua reported.

Russia and the United States signed on Monday an agreement on military transit, both overland and by air, via Russian territory to Afghanistan, RIA Novosti reported.

Four soldiers with the NATO-led Ineternational Security Assistance Forces (ISAF) were killed as a roadside bomb hit their vehicle in Kunduz province north of Afghanistan Monday, said a police official, Xinhua reported.

More than a dozen Afghan mine-clearers abducted in the war-torn country have been released after being kidnapped and robbed at the weekend, officials said Monday, reported AFP.

At least eight people have been wounded in a suicide bombing near a major Nato base in southern Afghanistan, reported BBC.

An airfield guarded by international troops in southern Afghan province of Kandahar was attacked by a suicide bombing early Monday morning, casualties feared, an official said, Xinhua reported.

A British soldier has been killed in an explosion in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, the Defence Ministry said, the fifth to die in five days as UK forces take part in a major U.S.-led offensive against Taliban strongholds, Reuters reported.

All Lance Corporal Seth Sharp ever wanted to be was a marine. He was killed Thursday on the front lines in Afghanistan during Operation Strike of the Sword against the Taliban.

Pakistani fighter jets targeted suspected Taliban hide-outs in a tribal region near Afghanistan on Sunday, killing as many as six people and raising the odds of a future military offensive there, intelligence officials said.

Presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev end a seven-year hiatus in U.S.-Russian summitry on Monday, with each declaring his determination to further cut nuclear arsenals and repair a badly damaged relationship.

One of the troops injured in the blast that killed a Canadian comrade watched from a wheelchair Saturday as hundreds of his fellow soldiers gathered to say goodbye to Cpl.