A roadside bomb killed 19 civilians and injured five on Wednesday in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. The casualties come just one day after a set of attacks on Shi’ite worshipers commemorating the Ashura holiday left almost 60 people dead. The sectarian...

Afghanistan opened bids on Tuesday to foreign investors to mine the country's copper and gold deposits in four different areas as part of a new initiative to raise government revenue. Geologists have known about Afghanistan's "vast deposits of iron, copper, cobalt,...

Twin Attacks on Afghan Shi’ites Kill 60 | Bomber targeted key shrine in Kabul

Afghanistan's finance minister warned the U.S. on Saturday against cutting funding for the Kabul government, security, and development. The World Bank last month released a study that said Afghanistan would need about $7 billion a year from the international community...

In over a decade of war in Afghanistan, about half of all Americans killed in action and two thirds of those wounded have done so in 2010 and 2011, according to a Congressional Research Service report. At the time the report was published on November 16, 1,723...