AFP - All 16 people including two Dutch soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed in Afghanistan, a military coalition spokesman has announced.

AP - A helicopter crashed in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, killing all 16 people on board, including at least two American civilians, officials said Thursday.

AFP - NATO is due next week to formally embark on its "toughest ground mission" yet when it takes command of security operations in dangerous southern Afghanistan where the hardened Taliban are most active.

AP - Fighting in southern Afghanistan killed 22 suspected Taliban militants, officials said Wednesday, as NATO nations approved expanding the alliance's peacekeeping force into the region.

AP - A Taliban insurgency in five provinces of southern Afghanistan is being fueled by international terrorist networks, foreign money and a porous border which the Pakistani government doesn't control, the top U.N. envoy in Afghanistan said Wednesday.

AFP - Two star-struck Afghan teenagers who trekked from Afghanistan to try to meet Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan were jailed soon after crossing into India through Pakistan, a report said Wednesday.

At least ten Taliban fighters and a civilian worker have been killed in clashes between coalition troops and the militant movement in southern Afghanistan. The incident occurred as the U.S.-led coalition prepares to leave southern Afghanistan ahead of the arrival of NATO forces....

AFP - The tensions in the Middle East must not deflect international attention from Afghanistan's development as the war in Iraq has done, Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta said.

AP - A bomb exploded near a taxi on a busy Kabul road Tuesday, killing two Afghans, and a U.S. soldier and seven militants died in fighting in the east — the latest wave of violence threatening Western attempts to rebuild Afghanistan.

AFP - Milkseller Hafiz-Ullah, shopkeeper Gul Ahmad and taxi driver Yaseen -- all in Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar -- have never heard of NATO.

AP - A roadside bomb exploded in the Afghan capital Tuesday, killing two Afghans riding in a taxi, as fighting in eastern provinces left a U.S. soldier and seven suspected Taliban dead, officials said.

The United Nations has joined the Afghanistan government in appealing to the world for aid to avoid an imminent food crisis following a drought. Tuesday's appeal placed the assistance needed at $76 million. The UN said the money would be used to provide the "urgent needs" of the more than 2.5...

AFP - Two coalition soldiers were badly wounded in the latest of a wave of Taliban-linked suicide attacks in southern Afghanistan, while 11 people died in other violence.

AFP - A car bomb detonated by a suicide attacker ripped into a coalition vehicle outside the volatile southern Afghanistan city of Kandahar, wounding two soldiers.

AP - Hundreds of Taliban fighters firing rocket-propelled grenades on Monday attacked a district headquarters in southwestern Afghanistan, killing three police and wounding seven, amid of a flurry of suicide attacks, roadside bombings and shootings that claimed lives across the country.

AP - Laborer Mohammed Asif says the open sewer trickling through his Kabul slum sums up his lot.

Eight people were killed, including two Canadian soldiers, when suicide bombers detonated two bombs Saturday in Kandahar.

AP - An attacker slammed his explosives laden car into a coalition vehicle in Kandahar Saturday, killing two Canadian soldiers and wounding eight others, officials said. Another bomber, in a simultaneous attack nearby, blew himself up and killed six Afghanis.

AP - A Kuwaiti court Saturday upheld the acquittal of five returnees from Guantanomo on terror-related charges.

AP - Backed by helicopter gunships, Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed 19 suspected Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, a local official said Saturday. The clashes came as NATO prepares to take command of the volatile region.