The US-led Nato force in Afghanistan has conceded that several children died during a bombing raid last week in the northeast province where French troops are based.
Nine people have been killed in a suicide car bomb attack on police headquarters in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.
The Taliban, backed by Pakistan, remains confident despite a decade of Nato efforts that it will retake control of Afghanistan, Nato has said in a new classified report.
Eight in 10 Afghans do not believe their police force is ready to take charge of law and order, a United Nations report shows, underscoring worries about the pace of transition.
Nato is committed to plans to withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014, even after France decided to end its fighting role a year earlier.
Nato has no intention of launching new air operations in Libya despite deadly clashes taking place in a former bastion of late dictator Muammar Gaddafi, the alliance chief says.
President Jacob Zuma has slammed the UN Security Council for allowing the Nato military strikes in Libya that played a key role in the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi.
An Afghan soldier has killed 2 French Nato troops in eastern Afghanistan.
Pakistani nationals based in SA have marched to the US embassy in Arcadia to protest against the recent US-led air strikes.
Nato has ended its training mission in Iraq as alliance officials lamented the collapse of a deal to extend it because Baghdad refused to grant its troops immunity from prosecution.
Gunmen attacked Nato oil tankers stranded in Pakistan for the second time in days as Islamabad warned it could enforce its blockade of the US lifeline into Afghanistan for weeks.
Nato will not extend its training mission in Iraq beyond the end of the year because Baghdad would not grant its soldiers immunity from prosecution.
Nato and Russia failed to resolve a rift over a European missile shield, but agreed to press on with negotiations aimed at reaching a deal.
US officials consulted with Pakistani officials before an airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and the Pakistanis gave the go-ahead for the attack, says a report.
The foreign military footprint in Afghanistan will shrink by 40 000 troops at the close of next year.
Russia has urged an end to "ultimatums" against its Middle East ally Syria after the approval of Arab League sanctions and a call from Washington and the EU for an immediate end to violence.
Supplies for Nato in Afghanistan have been hit by a Pakistani blockade enforced after a cross-border strike killed 24 soldiers, but it remains unclear how seriously coalition forces will suffer.
Nato has expressed regret over air strikes that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers as the United States sought to repair relations with Islamabad.
Pakistani authorities have blocked the vital supply route for Nato troops fighting in Afghanistan after a cross-border air strike killed 25 Pakistani troops, local officials say.
More than 1 000 university students have blocked a main highway in eastern Afghanistan to protested against any agreement that would allow US troops to stay in Afghanistan after 2014.
Commanders who defected from Muammar Gaddafi's armed forces in the heat of the civil uprising named a new chief confronting the new Libyan authorities with a done-deal.
Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen fell off his bicycle and broke his arm at the weekend, forcing him to call off a planned visit to the Baltic states, a spokesperson says.
Police say a roadside bomb has killed a district police chief in restive southern Afghanistan and his two bodyguards.
More than two months after the fall of Tripoli, Libya’s new leaders are still struggling to secure massive weapons depots and disarm thousands of fighters who brought down Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has warned that there would be no hope for peace in his war-ravaged nation without help from its neighbours to combat "terror groups".
Suicide attackers have blown up a truck and raided UN and US development offices in Kandahar, in the latest major attack on American interests in Afghanistan.
Officials in Afghanistan’s southern Kandahar province say a suicide car bomb has killed three guards at a checkpoint near a UN agency guest house and the office of an international non-governmental organisation.
A Taliban car bomber has struck a Nato military convoy in Kabul, killing 17 people, including 13 US troops.
At least 14 people, including foreign forces, have died as a Taliban car bomber struck a US-run Nato convoy travelling through the Afghan capital Kabul.
Nato has formally decided to end its seven-month mission in Libya on October 31, a diplomat says, despite calls from the country’s new rulers for air patrols to continue until the end of the year.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, who once vowed to die fighting on Libyan soil, now wants to face international justice instead and avoid any chance of meeting the same gristly end as his father, Libyan officials say.
Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi wrote to Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi in August begging him to halt a Nato-led intervention that was helping a rebel uprising drive him from power, a report says.
Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, a fugitive son of the deposed Libyan leader, is near Libya’s borders with Niger and Algeria and planning to flee the country using a forged passport, an official says.
The fate of 19 South Africans who were apparently involved in trying to help Muammar Gaddafi escape Libya is uncertain, with frantic attempts being made to fly them out of the country.
SA and Libyan diplomats are investigating reports that South African mercenaries were hired to try and get Muammar Gaddafi out of Libya in a failed escape attempt and that some died in the process.
Nato member and close US ally Turkey has cast doubt over allegations that Iranian agents plotted to kill the Saudi ambassador in Washington, saying it did not believe Iran would be engaged in such an act.
Nato’s operation in Libya can be considered over now that Muammar Gaddafi is dead and the new regime is in control of the entire country, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe says.
Muammar Gaddafi called the rebels who rose up against his 42-years of one-man rule "rats", but in the end it was he who was captured cowering in a drainage pipe full of rubbish and filth.
Libya’s interim premier has warned politicking among the victorious former rebels risks plunging the country into chaos before it has been fully liberated.
Libyan revolutionary forces have captured almost all of Bani Walid, one of Muammar Gaddafi’s last remaining strongholds, but still face pockets of resistance as they try to end a weeks-long standoff.
The seven-month bombing campaign in Libya is a "positive story" that showcased the commitment of the alliance's European members, who conducted most of the combat missions for the first time in the organisation's history, says Nato's top official.
Muammar Gaddafi’s hometown Sirte, the city he once dreamed would be the capital of the United States of Africa, is lying in ruins, blitzed and overrun by the fighters the Libyan dictator called "dogs".
British and US commandos have freed an Italian vessel with a crew of 23, which had been hijacked by pirates off Somalia.
Deposed leader Muammar Gaddafi says leaders of the developing world who recognise Libya's National Transitional Council will suffer a similar fate.
Nato's chief says ongoing military operations in Afghanistan and Libya demonstrate that the alliance continues to play an "indispensable" role.
US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta says Nato operations in Libya will continue as long as there is heavy ground combat between rebels and diehard supporters of ousted strongman Muammar Gaddafi.
Libya’s transitional leaders have named a new Cabinet and have vowed to step down after the country is secured.
Fighting is raging for Muammar Gaddafi’s birthplace, as Libya's new leaders eye a symbolic victory in their battle to eradicate the last vestiges of his 42-year rule.
Muammar Gaddafi's son, al-Saadi, has denied allegations of corruption and intimidation and called Interpol's decision to put him on the equivalent of its most-wanted list political, according to an email.
The Nato-led military in Afghanistan have publicly challenged UN statistics showing a 39% increase in violence in the war-torn country.
Libyan rebels pushed back towards the contested oil port of Brega, regaining mostly desert territory lost to Muammar Gaddafi's army the day before.
NATO's chief urged the UN to quickly act on Libya to stop Muammar Gaddafi from crushing rebels, but the alliance was divided as it pressed ahead with plans for a no-fly zone.
Britain's armed forces, strained by steep cuts in defence spending, would struggle to mount another military operation on the scale of the Libya intervention, British lawmakers say.
Nato allies are set to discuss US plans to end combat operations in Afghanistan in 2013 and shift to a training mission, as the alliance seeks to wind down the decade-long war.
The Pakistani security services are secretly helping Afghanistan's Taliban, a secret Nato document says, according to reports.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe says the AU shouldn't rush to recognise Libya's NTC, warning that Africa might be re-colonised if leaders fail to handle issues as the continent's founding fathers used to do, a report says.
MSF says it has suspended its work in prisons in the Libyan city of Misrata where it says torture is so rampant that some detainees are brought for care only to make them fit for further interrogation.
France remains committed to bringing stability to Afghanistan, its defence minister says after Paris threatened to accelerate its troop withdrawal.
The incoming UN Security Council president has called for an investigation into human rights abuses committed during Nato’s bombing campaign to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Nato has said one of its helicopters has made a forced landing in southern Afghanistan after taking ground fire.
Nato will continue to carry out night time kill-and-capture raids that target suspected insurgents with increased Afghan partnership.
The International Criminal Court chief prosecutor says there are serious suspicions that the killing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was a war crime.
Nato has denied an assertion by Iraq's national security advisor that it had decided to withdraw its mission there at the end of the year.
Nato fuel tankers have been attacked in Pakistan, the first such strike since the border closure.
A powerful suicide truck bomb has exploded near the entrance to a Nato base in Afghanistan, wounding up to 70 people.
Enraged by a Nato cross-border attack that killed 24 soldiers, Pakistan could end support for the US-led war on militancy if its sovereignty is violated again.
The commander of Nato-led forces in Afghanistan has written to President Hamid Karzai to acknowledge recent civilian killings during coalition operations and to promise troops will be retrained.
The US military has named an Air Force general to lead an investigation into allied air strikes that left 24 Pakistani soldiers dead and provoked outrage in Islamabad.
The US is striving to limit the fallout from a deadly Nato air raid on Pakistani border troops, but reports of who shot who risked stoking new tensions.
Pakistan says it is reviewing its alliance with the United States and Nato after up to 26 soldiers were killed in cross-border air strikes.
Saif al-Islam’s links to UK have come in for fresh scrutiny after his arrest, as analysts warned a trial might reveal more embarrassing details about his dealings with the British establishment.
The UN General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to restore Libya to the UN human rights council after the downfall of Muammar Gaddafi.
British intelligence agencies have helped disrupt a plan to kill Western representatives in Libya and attack the country's interim leaders.
An Afghan official says between 60 to 70 insurgents have been killed after they attacked bases used by Nato and Afghan forces in the eastern Paktika province.
The prosecutor of the international war crimes tribunal says his office will "impartially and independently" examine allegations of crimes committed by Nato and opposition forces in Libya.
The international war crimes court is still negotiating surrender terms with Muammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam, the court’s prosecutor says.
Nato has ruled out the possibility of military intervention in Syria but said Damascus should draw lessons from Libya.
Nato is formally ending its Libya mission, which it has hailed as one of its "most successful" yet after its air strikes played a key role in the overthrow of now-slain despot Muammar Gaddafi.
Libya’s new leaders have "a very complicated political task" ahead of them, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says, promising comprehensive US assistance.
Volunteers are still finding dozens of bodies in Muammar Gaddafi's hometown of Sirte, including of Libyan civilians killed in a suspected Nato air strike.
The International Criminal Court says it is in contact with Seif al-Islam Gaddafi, one of the sons of slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi.
France lauded the West's actions to bring down Muammar Gaddafi, while Russia condemned "violations," as the Security Council ended its authorisation for military action in Libya.
Muammar Gaddafi’s family plans to file a war crimes complaint against Nato with the ICC for the alliance’s alleged role in his death, the family lawyer says.
Libya's new regime wants Nato to keep up its mission in the north African country for "at least one more month", interim oil and finance minister Ali Tarhuni says.
The late Libyan despot Muammar Gaddafi spent his final weeks shuttling from hideout to hideout in his hometown Sirte, alternating between rage and melancholy, his confidant now in custody says.
Nato has said international troops and Afghan forces have killed "multiple" insurgents during an operation in an Afghan province.
Nato plans to end its seven-month air and sea mission in Libya on October 31, Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen says.
The ANC says it is regrettable that the Libyan conflict could only come to an end with the "gruesome killing" of Muammar Gaddafi.
French war planes fired a warning shot to stop a convoy of vehicles carrying Muammar Gaddafi before they opened fire.
Nato says its aircraft attacked two military vehicles near Muammar Gaddafi’s last holdout of Sirte, but stopped short of confirming reports that these had been carrying Gaddafi.
Nato is not ready to call an end to its mission over Libya even though new regime forces have made big strides in the last two towns held by Muammar Gaddafii loyalists.
The United States has a team of experts on the ground in Libya helping the authorities find missing surface-to-air missiles that could threaten civil aviation, a US official says.
Libyan government forces have brought more tanks into the city of Sirte to try to break the last pocket of resistance by loyalists of ousted leader Muammar Gaddafi in his home town.
British and US forces freed an Italian cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates in a dramatic rescue after retrieving a message in a bottle.
Nato has no immediate plan to end the Libya mission despite Gaddafi's apparent loss of power.
Officials say Nato’s bombing campaign in Libya, now in its seventh month, will continue despite the collapse of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime.
More than 1 000 US paratroops have jumped out over the Hohenfels training area in Germany in a massive airborne training operation.
With the Libyan conflict coming to an end, the 28-nation alliance Nato is set to draw lessons from the six-month mission during upcoming talks on the country’s civil war.
Nato is concerned that thousands of portable missiles may be missing in Libya.
Streams of civilians have fled Muammar Gaddafi’s besieged home town of Sirte as battles rage for control of the fugitive’s bastion where the Red Cross has warned of a medical emergency.
Serbs have re-inforced barricades in northern Kosovo's divided city of Mitrovica and Nato peacekeepers are out in force, after 20 people were injured in clashes.
Ferocious attacks by Gaddafi diehards have forced fighters of Libya’s new rulers to retreat from the ousted strongman's birthplace Sirte, where a tank shell killed three in a "friendly fire" attack.
Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen met with Turkish officials as an envoy of Muammar Gaddafi arrived in Ankara for talks on a possible ceasefire in conflict-torn Libya.