Bomb attacks on Friday killed 23 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai's second term that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years into the US-led war.

Bomb attacks on Friday killed 23 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai's second term that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years into the US-led war.

Bombers on Friday killed 18 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai's second term in office that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years into the US-led war.

Bombers on Friday killed 18 people in Afghanistan, a deadly start to President Hamid Karzai's second term in office that underscored spiralling insecurity nine years into the US-led war.

KHOST, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber rammed a car into a military convoy of foreign forces in southeastern Afghanistan Wednesday, killing one American, officials said.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday sacked the deputy UN special envoy to Afghanistan, who has been embroiled in a dispute with his boss over the country's fraud-tainted election.

UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday sacked the deputy UN special envoy to Afghanistan, who has been embroiled in a dispute with his boss over the country's fraud-tainted election.

Afghan and US forces killed 20 insurgents in separate operations in eastern and southern Afghanistan while a 12-year-old girl died in a roadside bomb blast, officials said Sunday.

Nearly 50 Taliban insurgents have been killed and about two dozen wounded in separate incidents across Afghanistan, while two Afghan soldiers have also been killed, officials said Wednesday.

As Afghans prepare for a re-run of their presidential election after a first round marred by staggering levels of fraud, concerns are growing about how free, fair and safe a second round can be.

Afghan president, challenger endorse runoff, rule out pre-vote power-sharing agreement. President Hamid Karzai and his challenger ruled out a power-sharing deal before Afghanistan's Nov. 7 runoff, saying the second round of balloting must be held as planned to bolster democracy in this war-ravaged country.

US officials are to try one of the youngest detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, a Canadian accused of killing a US soldier, in a military tribunal, attorney general Eric Holder said Friday.

A suicide bomber blew himself up close to NATO troops in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing up to two Afghan civilians and wounding more than 20 others, officials said.

Major allegations of fraud in Afghanistan's presidential election topped 550 by Sunday, more than doubling the figure investigators reported just two days earlier, officials said.

As Afghans await results from a fraud-tainted election, major military operations and continued terrorist attacks reflected on Sunday the challenge faced by the next president and Western powers.

A fierce gunfight backed by US helicopter fire paralysed a district in eastern Afghanistan after Taliban forced their way into a clinic seeking treatment for their leader, officials and NATO said Thursday.

A fierce gunfight backed by US helicopter fire paralysed a district in eastern Afghanistan after Taliban forced their way into a clinic seeking treatment for their leader, officials and NATO said Thursday.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's main rival Abdullah Abdullah staged a rally of village elders on Tuesday to denounce fraud in last month's election and said he was doing all he could to keep his supporters off the streets.

Fiercely independent Pashtun tribes in southeastern Afghanistan who voted en masse for Hamid Karzai in 2004 may not be such a bastion of support second time round, disappointed by poor security.

Canada's high court on Friday agreed to a government request to review a lower court order to repatriate a young Canadian held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.