KALAKAN, Afghanistan — More than two weeks after the last U.S. cluster bomb struck Taliban troops in this front-line village, lethal bomblets still litter the dirt paths and fields, lying in ...

The cluster bombs units used in Afghanistan are metal, ... Last week the U.N. said it had received information that nine people had been killed in the Afghan village of Shakar Qala, ...

The US, in its air campaign against the Taliban, had targeted parts of Afghanistan with cluster bombs. My team and I traveled to the village, near Herat, after hearing reports of a bombing.

United Nations officials have stated that on October 22 U.S. cluster bomb submunitions landed on the village of Shaker Qala, near the city of Herat in western Afghanistan, killing nine civilians ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Jan. 1 -- The United Nations Mine Action Program on Monday said it has received a list of 103 sites in Afghanistan where coalition planes dropped cluster bombs. According to ...

Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan — The boy, dressed in white and thought to be no older than 13, appeared amid the din of a wedding party in a small southern Afghan village and walked up to ...

The boy, dressed in white and thought to be no older than 13, appeared amid the din of a wedding party in a small southern Afghanistan village and walked up to within 15 feet of a cluster of ...

1 of 16 — Col. Michael Kasales stands outside a mock Afghan village at Fort Polk, La., where U.S. Army soldiers are learning how to train Afghan security forces. 2 of 16 — Afghan police role ...

Afghanistan is gearing up for elections this Thursday. Recent polls suggest that Hamid Karzai will garner the most votes but fall short of a majority, necessitating a runoff election. How accurate ...