Afghanistan

NATO says five members of the U.S.-led international military coalition have been killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan -- the first foreign troops killed this month around the country.

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A young female diplomat is among the six Americans who died in a pair of militant attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday.

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A helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan has killed five American service members, officials said Tuesday.

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President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Friday they have agreed to speed up slightly the schedule for moving Afghanistan's security forces into the lead across the country, with U.S. troops shifting fully to a support role. The leaders also said Obama agreed to place battlefield detainees under the control of the Afghan government.

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It's the same debate, but the White House is working harder now to keep troops in Afghanistan than it did in similar but failed discussions in Iraq in 2011.

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White House officials say they are considering leaving no American troops in Afghanistan after the end of combat in December 2014, although the administration remains committed to preventing the country from becoming a haven for al-Qaida.

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Military officials say a U.S. Marine stationed at Camp Lejeune has died in Afghanistan.

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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the Obama administration is nearing a decision in the next few weeks on how many U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan -- and for what purposes -- after the U.S.-led combat mission ends in 2014.

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The U.S. military is confirming the deaths two Americans in eastern Afghanistan, including a military member and a civilian contractor.

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Army Sgt. Jonathan Gollnitz, originally from Lakehurst, was killed by a suicide bomber in Afghanistan.

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