A suicide bomber rammed his car into a NATO convoy in the Afghan capital on Thursday, killing at least 12 people, including two coalition troops, four civilian contractors and two children, officials said.
Five U.S. service members were killed on Saturday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, the latest deadly attack against international troops since the Taliban announced the start of their spring offensive this week.
A civilian cargo crashed at Bagram Air Field soon after takeoff on Monday, killing all seven people aboard. Video surfaced on Tuesday that appears to show the accident.
A bus collided on Friday with the wreckage of a truck that had been attacked by Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan, killing 45 people aboard the bus in a fiery crash, officials said.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will stop in Chicago on Monday to visit the parents of the young U.S. diplomat who was killed while delivering textbooks in southern Afghanistan earlier this month.
Militants killed six Americans, including a young female diplomat, and an Afghan doctor Saturday in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday. It was the deadliest day for the United States in the war in eight months.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met again Tuesday with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, a day after they put on a show of unity as they tried to end recent bickering over anti-American comments made by the Afghan leader.
Eight suicide bombers attacked a police headquarters in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, killing five officers and wounding four others, a security official said.
Spc. Jonathan Batista, a 22-year-old Kinnelon resident, died Sunday, four days after Staff Sgt. Raul Guerra, a 37-year-old Union City resident, died in Spin Boldak.
The Pentagon said 21-year-old Army Spc. Philip C. S. Schiller died Wednesday in Kandahar province of wounds suffered when enemy forces attacked his unit with small arms fire.
Federal officials say Cpl. Kevin Reinhard, 25, of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey was among six Marines killed when their helicopter went down this week in Afghanistan.
The Defense Department says a 30-year-old soldier from northwestern New Jersey has died of wounds suffered when his unit was attacked with an improvised explosive device.