Labour leader Ed Miliband has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to meet British troops stationed in Helmand province.

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VIDEO: Miliband visits troops in Afghanistan

The American grenade that nearly killed 10-year-old Shah Mohammed landed on an unmarked firing range in a scrubby desert, in the shadow of the largest U.S. military base in the country. Like hundreds of other U.S. explosives fired here, it was supposed to detonate on impact. Like hundreds of others, it didn’t. Read full article > >

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For Afghans next to U.S. firing range, unexploded ammunition poses peril

President Francois Hollande defends his decision to end France’s military mission in Afghanistan early, during an unannounced visit to Kabul.

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Hollande defends Afghan exit plan

A book about the death of a British officer in Afghanistan, once pulped by the Ministry of Defence, is awarded the Orwell Prize for political writing.

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Afghan war book wins Orwell Prize

In remote area of Afghanistan.

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5 Aid Workers Kidnapped

Two foreign doctors and three Afghan colleagues are kidnapped in the country’s north-eastern province of Badakhshan, officials say.

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Aid workers held in Afghanistan

A soldier believed to have been killed by a British sniper in Afghanistan was accidentally shot while on active service, a coroner says.

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Soldier ‘sniper death’ accidental

Ryan Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, is expected to step down this summer after a year in the job, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter told CNN early Tuesday.

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Crocker to step down from Afghan post

NATO leaders signed off on President Obama's exit strategy from Afghanistan that calls for a 2013 end to combat operations.

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NATO backs Obama’s Afghan exit plan

The agreement to give the Afghans the lead role in securing their country next summer begins the end of the United States’s involvement in the war.

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NATO Formally Agrees to Transition on Afghan Security

Nato leaders endorse plans to hand combat command in Afghanistan to local forces by mid-2013 and withdraw fighting troops by 2014.

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Nato endorses Afghan timetable

More work must be done before NATO troops pull out of Afghanistan, U.S. President Barack Obama said as he met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai Sunday.

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Batons, blood mar NATO summit

Nato leaders are meeting in Chicago in a summit dominated by the withdrawal from Afghanistan.

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VIDEO: Nato leaders discuss Afghan withdrawal

President Obama tells a Nato summit there are “hard days ahead” in Afghanistan as the alliance prepares to withdraw troops at the end of 2014.

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‘Hard days ahead’ in Afghanistan

Leaders will focus on war in Afghanistan.

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NATO Summit Opens in Chicago