Two NATO force soldiers and 29 militants were killed in insurgency-linked violence in Afghanistan, authorities said Monday, as a new US commander took over foreign troops battling the tide of attacks. A Canadian soldier died in an explosion in the southern province of Kandahar, the birthplace of the extremist Taliban militia that swept into government in 1996 and was removed ...

The Afghan defence ministry said Monday troops killed three "terrorists" in a southern Afghanistan insurgent hotspot where soldiers killed 60 militants and made a major drugs haul last week. It said a woman and a child were wounded in the operation on Sunday in the southern province of Helmand, a Taliban stronghold and the main producer of Afghanistan's opium ...

A bomb exploded in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand Sunday and killed four people including two US nationals, a police commander said, in an attack claimed by the Taliban. "Two American advisors, an Afghan interpreter and a policemen were killed," Helmand deputy police chief Kamalodin Khan told AFP. The group had been checking an improvised explosive device in the ...

A bomb exploded in Afghanistan's southern province of Helmand Sunday and killed four people including two US nationals, a police commander said, in an attack claimed by the Taliban. "Two American advisors, an Afghan interpreter and a policemen were killed," Helmand deputy police chief Kamalodin Khan told AFP. The group had been checking an improvised explosive device in the ...