The US military has suffered its 1,000th death of the Afghan war.

US President Barack Obama has admitted he doesn't want his successor to inherit the Afghan conflict.

DEFENCE Secretary Bob Ainsworth defended Britain’s continuing military role in Afghanistan yesterday after five more British troops died over the weekend.

A remote-controlled bomb targeting a police convoy killed 12 people today in western Afghanistan, a day after three American soldiers died in a complex militant ambush in the country’s east.

US defence secretary Robert Gates is expected to crank up pressure on European allies who refuse to send troops to the front line against the resurgent Taliban in southern Afghanistan.

THOUSANDS of Iraqi children are likely to die if there is a Gulf War, according to an unpublished report.

Pakistani troops today sealed off the site where a US military tanker plane crashed into a mountain, killing all seven US marines on board - including the first servicewoman to die in the Afghan conflict .

Scientists in America are working on new hi-tech weapons for the Pentagon which include tiny spy planes and stealth covering which can hide a B-52 bomber.

An office of the Arab channel Al-Jazeera, which has been criticised by the United States for its coverage of the Afghan conflict, was hit early during an air raid.

Afghan warlords have a long tradition of changing sides in mid-battle, and none has switched teams more often than Rashid Dostum, the gruff and burly leader of an ethnic Uzbek faction.