Abducted Turkish engineer killed in Afghanistan
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The kidnapped Turkish engineer was found dead in Kunar province in east Afghanistan on Wednesday, one day after he was abducted by unknown gunmen, the Afghan Interior Ministry said.
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Islamic militants in Iraq apparently have killed a Turkish man whom they took hostage last month. Mr. Kumdereli was abducted with another Turkish truck driver in mid-August.
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U.S. airstrikes targeting a meeting of Taliban leaders killed a high-ranking commander involved in the kidnappings of 23 South Koreans two months ago, Afghan officials said Tuesday.
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A British soldier dies after his patrol is ambushed by the Taleban in Afghanistan, defence officials say.
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A UK soldier killed in Afghanistan is named as Corporal Darryl Gardiner, from the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers
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HERAT, Afghanistan  - Three Afghan guards of a U.S. private security firm were killed in an ambush by Taliban insurgents in western Afghanistan and 10 had gone missing, officials said on Monday.
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Afghan police shot dead a suspected suicide bomber in the southern province of Helmand, a NATO spokesman said on Thursday, amid fears of a surge in violence during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.
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A Canadian soldier was killed Friday in an explosion in southern Afghanistan, while an insurgent attack on a police checkpoint left three dead, officials said.
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A British serviceman has been killed in southern Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence confirms.
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A British soldier was one of two NATO troops killed in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Ministry of Defence in London said
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A NATO soldier was killed Sunday in a Taliban attack that included a suicide blast in southern Afghanistan where dozens of civilians were said killed in foreign air strikes days ago, officials said.
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KABUL, Afghanistan - US and Afghan troops killed a Taliban commander and detained 22 suspected Taliban fighters during a major search operation after a gunbattle in a southern Afghan mountain range, officials said Saturday.
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A Turkish engineer abducted by a militant  gang in eastern Afghanistan was found dead on Wednesday, a  witness who saw the body being carried down from a mountainside  told Reuters.
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A British soldier is killed and two others are injured in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
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A British soldier was killed Monday in the restive southern Helmand province of Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence in London said.
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A soldier has been killed in Helmand province, Afghanistan, says the Ministry of Defence.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. KABUL, Afghanistan -- A Turkish engineer taken hostage in Afghanistan was killed by kidnappers who had been