Militants set off a car bomb and stormed the entrance to a major Nato air base in eastern Afghanistan today, an attack which left eight insurgents dead.

US President Barack Obama today told Afghan leaders to do more to rein in rampant corruption and improve their government as he made an unannounced visit to the capital for a firsthand look at the eight-year-old war he inherited and dramatically escalated.

US President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan today for a first-hand look at the eight-year-old war he inherited and has dramatically escalated.

IRELAND has agreed to take two of the prisoners from the American concentration camp at Guantanamo, Cuba because they cannot go back to their home country, Uzbekistan. The Americans would like us to think they have jailed only crazed Muslim terrorists in Guantanamo, but people should ask who were held there.

The Obama administration is trying to protect top Bush administration military officials from lawsuits brought by British prisoners who say they were tortured while being held at Guantanamo Bay.

A US Army private who pleaded guilty to abusing a detainee in Afghanistan says his sergeant ordered a detainee to roll on the ground and kiss his boots as another soldier stood by and watched.

Two more US soldiers have been charged after an Afghanistan prisoner abuse investigation centred on two detainees who died in custody, the Army announced in Fort Bliss, Texas.

A suspected Taliban rebel leader was killed in recent heavy fighting in eastern Afghanistan, while elsewhere an American service member died in a training accident, the US military said today.

The Taliban’s supreme leader reportedly urged his forces to ‘‘fight to the death’’ today as US forces strengthened their presence near his stronghold in southern Afghanistan.