KHOST, Afghanistan (AFP) – The remaining three members of a 13-person demining team captured in eastern Afghanistan a week ago have been freed, officials said without making clear who had seized them.The men — two deminers and a driver — were freed in Paktia province late Wednesday after mediation by …

KABUL, Afghanistan – Airstrikes and Afghan army gunfire killed more than 45 suspected Taliban fighters in a clash in a southern province just as the holy month of Ramadan began, the U.S.-led coalition said.The battle in the southern province of Uruzgan on Wednesday began when insurgents attacked a joint Afghan …

KABUL (Reuters) – U.S.-led coalition airstrikes killed more than 45 Islamist Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.More than 7,000 people have been killed during the past 19 months in Afghanistan, the worst violence since the militants’ U.S.-led ouster in 2001. In separate incidents, an Afghan …