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 ...

WASHINGTON --The United States has begun broadcasting warnings to people in Afghanistan informing them how to tell the difference between unexploded cluster bomb units and airdropped food parcels ...

Recommendations The United States and all other combatants should immediately halt the use of cluster bombs in Afghanistan. At a minimum, cluster bombs should not be used in or near populated areas.

As told by Bonnie Docherty, senior researcher, Arms Division: In the dusty Afghan village of Ishaq Suleiman, a small boy, about 4 or 5 years old, handed me a piece of a cluster munition that he ...

The village had become a Taliban stronghold, a virtual factory for bombs that killed and maimed American soldiers. At the height of the U.S. offensive in late 2010, commanders chose what they ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...