Lynne O'Donnell

Six foreign soldiers were killed in a suicide attack near the US-run Bagram Airfield inAfghanistan on Monday, NATO said. Some of the dead were American, a U.S. official said.

A massive earthquake struck remote and impoverished regions of northern Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday, killing at least 263 people as it shook buildings across southern Asia and knocked out power and communications to already-isolated areas.

The U.S. and Afghan governments vowed Sunday to jointly investigate the attack on a hospital in Kunduz that killed 22 people, as street-by street battles continued between government forces and Taliban fighters and officials warned of a looming humanitarian crisis for civilians trapped in the city

A C-130 cargo plane crashed early Friday at Jalalabad Airfield in Afghanistan, killing all 11 on board, the U.S. Air Force said.

A day after capturing their first major city since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, the Taliban fanned out in full force Tuesday, closing roads, throwing up checkpoints and torching government buildings as residents huddled indoors, fearful of renewed fighting as Afghan forces deployed for a counteroffensive.

The Taliban captured the strategic northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Monday in a multipronged attack involving hundreds of fighters, the first time the insurgents have seized a major urban area since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion.