Afghan President Hamid Karzai has defended Prince Harry over his comments that he killed Taliban fighters while serving in Afghanistan, saying: "Young...

Afghanistan is likely to be "messy" after western troops pull out in 2014, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond admitted today. Mr Hammond said there w...

The US army has announced it will seek the death penalty for the American soldier accused of murdering 16 civilians in Afghanistan. Nine children ...

Imran Khan, the Pakistani cricket star turned politician, has caused outrage by claiming that the Taliban are fighting a 'holy war' justified by Islam...

RUSI is a reputable organisation with its feet firmly on the ground and contacts with the highest decision making bodies. Hence its research that the ...

Afghan president Hamid Karzai has told US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta that Nato troops should pull back to their bases and Afghan forces should tak...

The US soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians during a shooting rampage in Kandahar on Sunday has been flown to Kuwait. Although Afghan off...

Afghan politicians are demanding that the US soldier allegedly involved in the killings of 16 civilians faces a public trial. The call came in a st...

British troops could be killed in reprisal attacks after an American soldier allegedly gunned down 16 villagers in southern Afghanistan, the former co...

Taliban insurgents have threatened to carry out revenge attacks after a US soldier went on a shooting rampage in Afghanistan, killing at least 16 civ...

Pakistan is actively helping the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan, a leaked Nato report has concluded. The top secret document seen by the BBC...

At least 19 people have been killed in a roadside bombing in southern Afghanistan, local officials have said. Mohammad Ismail, the security command...

An Afghan woman who was gaoled for adultery after being raped will be released from prison with no pre-conditions, her lawyer has insisted. Reports...

President Hamid Karzai has said his government and Nato have failed to provide Afghans with security, 10 years after the Taliban were otherthrown. ...

"I watched 9/11 unfold in the office of The Observer," says Jason Burke, one of the UK's foremost experts on Al-Qaeda and currently South Asia corresp...

As many as 34 more were wounded in an attack on the governor of Parwan’s compound in what witnesses said was a highly-organised assault. The atta...

A suicide bomber killed four, including a senior cleric, when he detonated inside a mosque at a memorial service for the assassinated brother of the A...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai attended the burial of his half-brother Ahmed Wali Karzai in his family's ancestral village of Karz, in Kandahar provinc...

"I confirm that Ahmad Wali was killed inside his house," said Zalmay Ayoubi, spokesman for the governor of Kandahar province, where Ahmad Wali Karzai ...