A St. Joseph soldier has died while serving in Afghanistan, according to our reporting partners at the Herald Palladium and the Associated Press.

A soldier from St. Joseph, Mich., has died while serving in Afghanistan.

Children in Afghanistan are suffering from serious child abuse and high levels of mortality.

Children in Afghanistan are suffering from serious child abuse and high levels of mortality.

Eight years after the US-led overthrow of the Taliban, children in Afghanistan are suffering disastrous levels of abuse, deprivation and mortality, officials say.

To some it will be seen as Afghanistan’s magic bullet. To others, supporting the country’s hotch-potch of tribal militias is a sure-fire way of recreating the violence and anarchy that brought the Taleban to power in the first place.

A St. Joseph soldier has died while serving in Afghanistan, according to our reporting partners at the Herald Palladium and the Associated Press.

The Australian Defence Force (ADF) refutes the claim in today’s Sunday Telegraph and Sunday Mail Brisbane that members of the ADF are using illicit drugs while deployed on tours of duty in Afghanistan and are returning home addicted.

International political and military officials agreed no exit strategy should be set for troops in Afghanistan, while the United States urged Iran to engage the West at a new security forum that wrapped up Sunday.

US special forces are supporting anti- Taliban militias in at least 14 areas of Afghanistan as part of a secretive programme that experts warn could fuel long-term instability in the country.