KABUL (Reuters) – More foreign fighters are joining the ranks of Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan as militants increasingly cross the border from Pakistan to attack Afghan and Western troops, the Afghan Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top Central Intelligence Agency official traveled to Islamabad and confronted senior officials with evidence of ties between Pakistan’s spy agency and militants operating in that country’s tribal areas, the New York Times reported in Wednesday editions.

(Reuters) – A British soldier in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, was killed in a firefight with Taliban militants on Tuesday, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. Here are figures for foreign military deaths as a result of violence or accidents in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in …