The Afghanistan Taliban called on Afghans Saturday to push the United States from the country just as the former Soviet Union's military was forced out in 1989.

Clashes and bombings across Afghanistan Monday killed almost 30 people, most of them militants, authorities in Kabul said.

Four U.S. soldiers were killed in a helicopter crash and a British soldier died in an explosion, NATO forces in Afghanistan said Wednesday.

Afghan militants blew up an explosives-laden donkey cart in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killing three children and wounding four others, authorities said.

A search was under way Friday for two NATO soldiers who failed to return from a routine supply mission in western Afghanistan, officials said.

Four Afghans were killed in Afghanistan by a suicide bomber driving a truck into a hotel parking lot used by NATO forces, officials said.

The Taliban vow to attack South Korean facilities in Afghanistan if Seoul does not keep a promise it made to secure the release of hostages, Yonhap reported.

The Taliban reportedly have set a new deadline for the lives of 19 South Korean hostages in Afghanistan, it was reported Sunday.

The Taliban in Afghanistan told the Xinhua news agency Thursday that two female South Korean hostages in their custody are in "very bad condition."

The 23 South Korean Christians kidnapped in Afghanistan are being held by the Taliban, the group said Friday.

Seven NATO soldiers, including five Americans, were killed Wednesday night when their helicopter crashed, possibly after being hit by Taliban forces.

The Taliban has demanded that France withdraw its troops from Afghanistan as a condition for releasing five people taken hostage.

A suspected suicide bomber in Afghanistan killed himself and another person in a car blast Tuesday near Kabul.

India's foreign secretary denounced the Taliban Monday for the killing of an Indian engineer who had been taken hostage in Afghanistan.