Afganistan News

Afghanistan's President today ordered U.S. special forces to leave Wardak province in the nation’s east within two weeks after investigators said Afghans working for the forces were torturing and murdering fellow citizens.

President Barack Obama will announce in his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening that 34,000 U.S. troops will be home from Afghanistan by 2014, the Associated Press is reporting.

Just days after the British Ministry of Defence announced Prince Harry was in Afghanistan for a 4-month deployment, the Taliban is threatening to do all they can to "eliminate" him.

Washington - The United States Marine Corps has banned audible farting in Afghanistan because it is culturally offensive to civilians working with the military and members of the Afghan National Army.

The men responsible for the killing of 30 Americans in Afghanistan have been confirmed dead after a US military airstrike.

British troops stationed in Afghanistan have spent their free time creating, filming and editing their own music video using the Journey song 'Don't Stop Believin' featured on the first season of the hit show Glee and it's become a YouTube sensation.

A batch of classified documents from Guantanamo Bay has been released through the Wikileaks website. Among the documents are interrogation reports from more than 700 detainees believed to be affiliated with Pakistani and Islamic intelligence groups.

The relatively new branch of al-Qaeda operatives based in Yemen have evolved from Osama bin Laden's ideology of attacking targets of significance in favor of striking whenever and wherever opportunity is present, a media report states.

Washington - A disturbing video of Iraqi children being harassed with offensive language and questions was filmed by a soldier stationed in Iraq. He then posted it to Facebook and YouTube. It was just discovered and the clip is now being publicly criticized.

A senior Taliban general is said to have been killed in northern Pakistan according to reports. Maulana Faqir Mohammed is believed to have been hit in a targeted strike against Taliban militants.