Nato airstrike killed eight children: Karzai

A Nato airstrike killed eight children in Afghanistan's Kapisa province, President Hamid Karzai said Thursday.

US officials say Pakistan leaving liaison centres

U.S. military officials say Islamabad is pulling its troops out of at least two of the three centres meant to coordinate military activity across the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.

US rules out any apology to Pakistan over NATO bombing

The Obama administration has said that it respects Pakistan's sovereignty but ruled out any apology to Islamabad at this point of time as the probe into the last week's NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers is yet to complete.

Bombing in Afghanistan kills 13 NATO force members

Insurgents mounted several attacks across Afghanistan Saturday, including a car bomb that hit a NATO military vehicle in downtown Kabul, killing as many as 13 Americans.

Nato commander says 27 dead in Kabul attack

The top commander for Nato and US forces in Afghanistan says the Kabul attack has left 27 dead, including Afghan police, civilians and insurgents.

NATO seeks India's cooperation to tackle terror, piracy

US-led NATO has asked India to shed its non-aligned policy and called for a partnership with it to tackle common security challenges such as terror threats, cyber security and piracy. "Even with regard to common missile threats, the ability to defend could be the same," a top NATO official said.

The 28-member NATO has already reached out to New Delhi asking it to co-opt as a "dialogue plus partner".

NATO says 'no evidence' of Libya civilian casualties

NATO on Tuesday said overnight air strikes near the city of Zliten in western Libya were "legitimate" and that it had no evidence of Tripoli claims that the bombs killed 85 villagers. "We do not have evidence of civilian casualties at this stage," the NATO spokesman for the alliance's Libya campaign, Colonel Roland Lavoie,

said

Former Osama bin Laden associate captured: Nato

Nato on Thursday said it captured a senior al-Qaida facilitator and former Osama bin Laden associate in northern Afghanistan.

Air strike flattens building in Gaddafi compound

NATO forces flattened a building inside Muammar Gaddafi's Bab al-Aziziyah compound early on Monday, in what a press official from his government said was an attempt on the Libyan leader's life.

NATO troops continue operation against Taliban

NATO and Afghan troops are continuing a joint operation in southern Helmand province and eastern Nuristan in a bid to suppress a Taliban force that killed eight US soldiers at the weekend.

It was the coalition's heaviest toll in a single incident in Afghanistan for more than a year.

The Afghan defence ministry says 10 Afghan soldiers have been killed and more than 100 Taliban killed and wounded in the counter attack.

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates says the West's failure to deploy enough force has allowed the Taliban to gain strength.

"The reality is that because of our inability and the inability frankly of our allies to put enough troops into Afghanistan, the Taliban do have the momentum right now, it seems," he said.

The operation coincides with President Barack Obama considering a request from the US commander in the war zone for more troops.