Two US soldiers were killed in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan Saturday, the US military said, as Afghan authorities reported that 32 rebels died in an ensuing US helicopter attack. "There was an incident with a possible IED (improvises explosive device) in Paktika province this morning in which two US service members were killed," Sergeant Charles March, a military spokesman said. The military spokesman could not give further details but Hamidullah Zhwak, a spokesman for the local administration, said the US casualties occurred when a fuel tanker was exploded by ...

North Korea has test-fired four ballistic missiles, on the eve of US Independence Day celebrations, according to South Korean officials, further fuelling regional tensions amid its nuclear standoff. Seoul's foreign ministry said all four of the weapons launched into the Sea of Japan (East Sea) were ballistic missiles, which the North is banned from firing under UN Security Council resolutions. It was the first time in three years that the communist state fired multiple ballistic missiles. South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said the missiles had a range ...

KABUL (Reuters) - One U.S. soldier and an Afghan were killed when a suicide bomber tried to attack a base in southeast Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said, two days after a major operation against the Taliban was launched in the south. The bomber drove a truck toward the base, operated by U.S.-led foreign forces and Afghan troops, in the Zirok district of southeastern Paktika province, said Hamidullah Zwak, a spokesman for the provincial governor. He ignored warnings to stop and was shot dead before he reached the base ...