Mystery killings in Afghan city
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Afghan authorities find the bodies of 16 men in the city of Jalalabad allegedly killed by a criminal gang.
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At least four people are killed in a huge explosion in the Afghan capital, Kabul, but the cause is unclear.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Human Rights Watch said Monday it has discovered two more US detainee deaths in Afghanistan, including an apparent murder more than two years ago, and said slow-paced investigations had &quot;spawned a culture of impunity&quot; that may have
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan elders yesterday said that 108 civilians were killed in a bombing campaign in western Afghanistan, while villagers in the northeast said 25 Afghans died in airstrikes, including some who were killed while burying dead relatives.
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A bomb blast in northern Afghanistan killed a Finnish soldier and an Afghan civilian on Wednesday, while a suicide attacker in the capital killed two people, including a policeman, officials said.The blast in the northern city of Maymana just 100 yards outside a Norwegian-led base killed a Finnish soldier and slightly wounded two Norwegian officers, the Norwegian military in Oslo said.A civilian was also wounded in the blast, said provincial police chief Khalil Ziyaeehe.Northern Afghanistan is relatively calm compared with the country's south and east, but the region has seen an increasing number of attacks in recent weeks. A suicide bomber in the northern city of Kunduz on Saturday killed 10 people, including three German soldiers who also had been walking through a market place. Read more
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Human Rights Watch said yesterday that it has discovered two more US detainee deaths in Afghanistan, including an apparent murder more than two years ago, and said slow-paced investigations had ''spawned a culture of impunity&quot; that may have fueled prisoner abuse in Iraq.
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Officials place early blame on al-Qaida and Taliban as police work to identify suicide assassin
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Unidentified gunmen kill at least nine people in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta.
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"Out the window I could see shots being fired at the guardpost by the gate"  In a coordinated assault rarely seen in Kabul, militants with suicide vests, grenades and AK-47s attacked the Afghan capital's most popular luxury hotel Monday, killing at least two people and wounding several, witnesses and a Taliban spokesman said.The 6:12 p.m. attack came on a night the Norwegian embassy was holding a meeting at the Serena Hotel. An American inside said she saw a body she believed to be dead and pools of blood in the lobby, and hotel employees reported two dead. She said three foreigners were wounded. Read more
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Unidentified gunmen kill a top women's affairs official in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, police say.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Suspected Taliban rebels killed two tribal elders who were encouraging participation in elections and shot to death an Afghan military commander in an ambush, officials said Saturday    Meanwhile, the U.S. military apologized for the latest civilian casualty of its operations to protect landmark October elections...
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An outdoor wedding celebration north of the Afghan capital was attacked by assailants who threw a grenade, killing five women and wounding 18, an official said. Four suspects were detained after the blast Monday in the village of Sayadan, about 40 miles north of Kabul, said Abdul Jabar Takwa, the governor of Parwan province.
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Taliban suicide bombers launched a second day of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least four people in the capital and a northern city, raising tensions in areas that had been considered relatively secure.
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Several people were killed on Sunday by a powerful blast in the Afghan capital, witnesses said.
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A brazen attack by hundreds of Taliban militants on an isolated town had been building for days, a coalition spokesman said Friday, after a wave of violence in southern Afghanistan left around 100 dead.
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - Up to seven supporters of an  ousted Afghan governor were killed and 20 wounded on Sunday in  clashes with police and U.S. troops in the western city of  Herat, which was placed under night curfew.
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(Kandahar, Afghanistan-AP) Sept. 26, 2004 - Afghan officials say an alleged senior Taliban commander and two fighters have been killed in a raid on a village home in southern Afghanistan.