Afghanistan Soldiers

• Afghan Security Deaths Up As They Lead Fight

  The head of NATO says Afghan security forces are dying in record numbers because they are leading the fight against the Taliban insurgency.

• Taliban Blast in Kabul Kills Four Afghanistan Soldiers: Officials

  At least four Afghanistan soldiers were killed, and around a dozen people including six civilians wounded after a roadside bomb planted by the Taliban exploded in the Afghanistan capital on Tuesday, officials said.

• Three Afghan Soldiers Missing From US Base

  Police and military officials were searching on Sunday for three soldiers from the Afghanistan National Army who went missing during a training exercise at a U.S. military base.

• Five Americans Killed in Afghanistan by 'Friendly Fire' Were Elite Forces

  Two U.S. defense officials say the five Americans killed in Afghanistan, apparently by friendly fire, were special operations troops.

• Afghan suspect blames US commandos for civilian murders

  An Afghan accused of torturing and murdering civilians while working for US special forces denies the charges and says he followed American orders, according to a report obtained by AFP on Tuesday.

• Three British soldiers shot dead in Afghanistan

  A man wearing Afghan police uniform shot dead three British soldiers at a checkpoint in Afghanistan on Sunday, Britain's Defence Ministry said on Monday. The soldiers were serving with an Afghan police advisory team and were killed after a meeting at the checkpoint at Nahr-e-Saraj in southern Helmand province.

• Obama announces troop cut in Afghanistan

  Beginning to wind down a long and devastating war, President Barack Obama announced on Wednesday night that he was pulling home 33,000 US troops from Afghanistan by next summer, withdrawing the "surge" of forces he had sent to rescue a flailing effort. Obama said to a country eager for an exit: "The tide of war is receding."A total of 10,000 troops...