Tribal family suspected over Kabul blast
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Main suspects behind hotel storming are father and son with links to Taliban and al-Qaida, writes Jason Burke
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Afghan authorities are investigating whether some government figures helped a group of Muslim militants kidnap three foreigners working for the United Nations.
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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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A bomb blast killed a suspected member of a banned Islamist group and wounded seven other people in a small western Pakistani town close to the troubled tribal area on Saturday, officials said.
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Officials in Afghanistan were trying to establish whether a seriously wounded one-legged militant captured after a gun battle was Taliban commander Mullah Dadullah.
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A kidnapped UN worker may have been allowed to contact her family in NI, reports from Afghanistan suggest.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - At least 20 people were killed by an explosion on Sunday in southern Afghanistan, witnesses said.
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A bomb blast in western Afghanistan killed two Afghan civilians and wounded 17 others on Saturday, officials said.
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KABUL, June 19 -- At least 20 people were killed Tuesday in an explosion in a Pakistani tribal area, where residents reported seeing an aerial drone firing at least two missiles immediately before the blast.
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A coalition airstrike destroyed a mud-brick home after a rocket attack on a U.S. base, killing nine people from four generations of an Afghan family including a 6-month-old, officials and relatives said Monday &#151; one of the latest in a string of civilian deaths that threaten to undermine the government.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Investigators probing a deadly car bombing in the Afghan capital questioned a man detained at the Kabul airport with traces of explosives on his hands, officials said yesterday, while US authorities warned all Americans in the capital to be inconspicuous.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Security agents have arrested 17 people allegedly trained in Pakistan who they believe planned to launch suicide attacks in three Afghan provinces, Afghanistan's intelligence agency said yesterday.
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NATO-led and Afghan forces are investigating whether four people they killed in eastern Afghanistan were Taliban rebels, members of the Afghan security forces or civilians, a spokesman said on Sunday.
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Police detained seven suspects for questioning in the kidnapping of three UN election workers in the Afghan capital, officials said Friday, but investigators appeared no closer to establishing whether Taliban-linked militants or criminals were responsible
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INDONESIAN investigators had identified the suicide bomber in this month&#39;s Australian Embassy attack, after finding DNA at the scene that matched samples taken from his mother, police said today.
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Relatives of 'disappeared' fighters hope the International Criminal Court will investigate.
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An inmate injured in a deadly Afghan prison shootout will be questioned to determine if he and four comrades, all once suspected of belonging to al-Qaida, were trying to escape or were attempting to attack three American prisoners, the jail warden said