Suicide bombers, not fighters main Afghan threat: U.S.
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The United States sees suicide bombers in Afghanistan as a greater threat than any organized summer offensive by the Taliban, which has been weakened by the loss of key commanders, a U.S. official said on Wednesday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber attacked the office of a U.S.-owned security company in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday killing seven people, including two Americans, a government and company official said.
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A Taliban suicide bomber targeted a U.S.-led coalition convoy on Tuesday in Afghanistan, but there was no immediate report of any casualties.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber attacked the office of a U.S.-owned security company in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday killing eight people, including two Americans, a government and company official said.
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In what the Taliban claimed was an assassination attempt, a suicide bomber attacked the main gate of a U.S. military base Tuesday within earshot of Vice President Dick Cheney. The explosion killed 23 people, including two Americans, and delivered a propaganda blow that undercut the U.S. military and the weak Afghan government it supports.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers launched a second day of attacks in Afghanistan yesterday, 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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The threat of a terrorist attack against Germans in Afghanistan &#151; or even suicide bombings in Germany itself &#151; appears to be on the rise in recent days, officials said Friday.
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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan  - Key allies in the war   against Afghanistan's Taliban militants pledged to stay the   course on Tuesday as a suicide bomber killed 18 in the south   and a blast killed an Italian NATO soldier.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S. government warned its citizens to keep a low profile Monday after a car bomb hit a private American security firm in the Afghan capital, killing at least seven people, including two Americans...
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U.S.-led forces trying to protect landmark Afghan elections face a rising wave of violence from about 2,000 insurgents, including al-Qaida militants slipping in from Pakistan, an American general said Saturday.
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Taliban suicide attacks are setbacks but will not prevent coalition forces from squeezing insurgents out, the British commander in Afghanistan told BBC radio on Tuesday.
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A security plan seen as a last-ditch attempt to halt violence in Baghdad will not produce results overnight, a U.S. general warned on Sunday, after a suicide truck bomb killed 135 people.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - More than 80 percent of suicide bombers in Afghanistan are recruited and trained in neighboring Pakistan, the United Nations said in a report today that showed attacks running at record levels this year.
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Weapons of mass destruction, small boats packed with explosives and Islamic radicalization are the greatest terrorist threats facing the country, top U.S. security officials said Monday on the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
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KAFIR BAND, Afghanistan, Sept. 18 -- Three suicide bombers killed at least 19 people across Afghanistan on Monday, including four Canadian soldiers in an attack that tested the NATO alliance's claim of success in driving insurgents from this volatile southern region.
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BAGRAM AIRBASE, Afghanistan  - A suicide bomber killed at least 10 people on Tuesday in an attack on the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan where Vice President Dick Cheney was visiting after an unannounced visit.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban movement suffered a serious psychological and military setback after failing to disrupt Afghanistan's presidential election last month, but the radical Islamic militia still poses a formidable military threat, and one faction has begun carrying out daring, al Qaeda-style urban terrorist attacks, according to Afghan and foreign analysts.