After 25 years of fighting that left more than a million dead, Afghanistan’s government is considering setting up a special war crimes court and a truth-seeking commission to document atrocities, an official said.

President Hamid Karzai today left for a visit to Britain and Italy to discuss Afghanistan’s economic development and other issues with the two important allies.

US Marines tracked down a band of insurgents in eastern Afghanistan and sparked a battle that left about 12 rebels and two American troops dead, the US military said today.

Afghanistan’s constitutional convention agreed on a historic new charter today, the convention’s chairman said.