Afghans remember slain anti-Taliban commander amid tight security
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Some 20,000 Afghans paid tribute Wednesday to slain anti-Taliban commander Ahmad Shah Massood, packing a stadium in Kabul ringed with security to guard against attacks by the still-active Islamic militia.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - A commander of Taliban  guerrillas in the southern Afghan province of Uruzgan was  captured last week while trying to hide in a well and handed  over to U.S. forces, the provincial governor said on Monday.
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Tributes are played to a British soldier killed in Afghanistan after he is named by the Ministry of Defence.
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A Taliban leader has been killed in Afghanistan, the country's government said today, as the deaths of a British soldier and a civilian translator were confirmed after an explosion in the country's south.
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AFGHANISTANâS capital Kabul was placed under tight security today for the historic inauguration of Hamid Karzai as the countryâs first popularly elected president.
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Security was tightened across Kabul on Monday in the wake of a vehicle bomb on Sunday that killed three Americans working for an American contractor and at least four other people.
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More than 20,000 Afghans gathered in Kabul on Wednesday to remember Northern Alliance military commander Ahmad Shah Masood, slain by al Qaeda operatives two days before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn-in as Afghanistan&#39;s first directly-elected president amid tight security at his fortified Presidential Palace Tuesday.
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Dozens killed as troops encircle mountain base of Taliban chief linked to Bhutto killing
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Under tight security, thousands of people gathered in Kabul on Thursday for the funeral of lawmakers who died in the country's deadliest-ever suicide attack, a strike that killed some 73 people, many of them schoolchildren.
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In the aftermath of a suicide bomb which killed over 80 people, mourners gather in Kandahar to pay their respects
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Taliban fighters killed a former local official and four of his bodyguards in an ambush in southern Afghanistan, then killed 25 members of his family when they went to collect his body, relatives and officials said Monday.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan  - NATO forces killed a Taliban commander in southern Afghanistan on Sunday during an offensive to retake a town from the militants, NATO and residents said.
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Masked gunmen killed an ethnic Pashtun politician known as a close friend of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border on Wednesday, officials said.
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WANA, Pakistan  - Masked gunmen killed an ethnic  Pashtun politician known as a close friend of Afghan President  Hamid Karzai in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan  border on Wednesday, officials said.
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The funeral is held in Kabul of Afghanistan's last king, Zahir Shah, who died on Monday aged 92.
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Tributes are being paid and flags are at half-mast after 14 UK troops were killed in a plane crash in Afghanistan.