AP - A suspected suicide bomber in a small truck hit a military convoy outside a southern Afghan city Sunday, wounding at least one foreign soldier, officials and witnesses said.

AFP - Around 800 South Korean Christians have left Afghanistan and some 350 were to leave after their planned "peace festival" was called off amid concerns that their presence could spark violence, officials said.

AP - As of August 5, 2006, at least 262 members of the U.S. military have died in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan as a result of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001, according to the Defense Department.

AP - As of Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, at least 2,587 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,050 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers.

AP - The stress of military duty in Iraq is expected to be at the core of defense arguments when a hearing opens Sunday to determine whether five American soldiers should be tried in the rape-slaying of a 14-year-old girl.

AP - One NATO soldier was killed and three were injured when their armored jeep crashed in southern Afghanistan Saturday, a NATO statement said.

AFP - A solider with NATO-led peacekeepers died and three others were wounded in a traffic accident in southern Afghanistan, a statement has said.

AFP - Taliban attacked a police patrol in southern Afghanistan, with an intelligence official and a rebel killed and two police wounded in the ensuing gunfight, police said.

AP - The U.S.-led coalition on Friday said 25 Taliban were killed in a joint operation with Afghan forces in the country's south, while a rare gunbattle near the capital killed one militant.

AFP - Officials were scrambling to get hundreds of South Korean Christians out of strictly Islamic Afghanistan after concerns their presence could incite violence.

The Afghan government says concern for the safety of evangelical Christians from South Korea prompted its decision to deport the group of 1,500 people. Islamic clerics have accused the group of proselytizing by preaching Christianity. It is illegal to convert people to non-Islamic religions in...

AP - Afghanistan ordered hundreds of South Korean Christians to leave the country, accusing them Thursday of seeking to undermine its Islamic culture.

AFP - Three NATO soldiers have been killed in Afghanistan in an ambush by Taliban insurgents in the same area where a bomb killed a Canadian soldier earlier, NATO's military force said.

AP - NATO said Thursday that three of its soldiers were killed by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan. The deaths come three days after the organization formally took over control of security in the region.

AP - A roadside bomb killed a NATO soldier Thursday, the military alliance's fourth fatality since taking command in southern Afghanistan this week, while police backed by NATO warplanes killed 10 suspected Taliban militants, officials said.

AP - A confidential report from Britain's outgoing ambassador to Iraq warned the country is sliding toward civil war and is likely to divide eventually along ethnic lines, according to a news report Thursday.

AFP - A NATO soldier was killed in southern Afghanistan, the fourth since the alliance took command in the area this week, while police said 10 Taliban militants died in a raid.

AFP - Afghan security forces backed by NATO warplanes killed at least 10 Taliban rebels in a fresh sweep in volatile southern Afghanistan, police said.

AFP - The Pentagon announced it will keep its force levels in Afghanistan stable with deployments late this year of 11,000 fresh troops.

AP - The Pentagon announced Wednesday that a combat brigade of the 82nd Airborne Division from Fort Bragg, N.C., will deploy to Afghanistan late this year as part of the next rotation of forces.