Afghan and coalition forces killed about 82 militants in multiple assaults across southern Afghanistan, the military said Saturday.

Royal marines are on their way to the Pakistani border in Afghanistan to seal off possible transit routes for Al Qaida and Taliban forces.

Sergeant Gene Arden Vance was a newlywed preparing for his honeymoon when his National Guard unit was called up for duty after the September 11 terrorist attacks.

American forces have determined they captured the wrong people in a commando raid in Afghanistan.

Five prisoners from the war in Afghanistan are in US custody.

Taliban forces are understood to be handing over their weapons in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.

Rival Afghan factions were today trying to agree on the members of an interim government for the country, as a man believed to be a US citizen was found among captured Taliban fighters.

The US will "take no prisoners" in its fight with Taliban forces and al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

Taliban military forces appeared to have deserted the capital of Kabul at dawn today after a series of stunning military victories by opposition forces over the past four days, witnesses said.

Taliban forces appeared to be fleeing Kabul tonight as the opposition Northern Alliance said their troops had pushed to the gates of the Afghan capital.

The US is lying when it claims to have smashed the al-Qaida terrorist network and to have broken the back of Taliban forces in Afghanistan, the group’s military commander said Friday.

Pakistan has urged the United States to hold back its attack on frontline Taliban forces to prevent Afghanistan’s opposition northern alliance from storming into the capital.

Last night’s allied strikes are the first phase of a campaign that shows the growing importance of ‘‘psychological warfare’’, according to a military expert.

Tonight’s allied strikes are the first phase of a campaign that shows the growing importance of ‘‘psychological warfare’’, according to a military expert.

In an attack coordinated with US/British air strikes, the Afghan opposition tonight launched an attack on Taliban forces controlling the mountains surrounding the Bagram air force base north of Kabul.