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FRENCH FIGHTERS APPEAR WITH ISLAMIC STATE IN AFGHANISTAN
The Pentagon has said IS numbers fewer than 1,000 in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
PENTAGON CHIEF JIM MATTIS PRESSES PAKISTAN TO 'REDOUBLE' WAR ON TERROR AND INSURGENTS IN SAFE HAVENS
Defense Secretary Jim Mattis pressed top Pakistani leaders Monday to redouble efforts to go after insurgents operating in safe havens, the Pentagon said,... READ MORE›
WAR WIDOWS IN AFGHANISTAN PAY A HEAVY PRICE FOR THEIR HUSBANDS' SACRIFICE
Many of Afghanistan's more than 330,000-strong security forces come from villages much like Shemol, which is some 70 km about 44 miles from the provincial capital of Jalalabad... READ MORE›
11-YEAR-OLD AFGHAN GIRL HAS BEEN IN PRISON SINCE BIRTH WITH HER MOTHER, A CONVICTED KILLER
Afghanistan's approximately 30 women's prisons have several hundred children accompanying their mothers. Here's the story of one of them... READ MORE›
CRIME CASUALTIES UNDERMINE US GAINS ON AFGHAN BATTLEFIELD
Although Taliban-controlled areas begin within a 10-minute drive of the city, Kunduz... READ MORE›
TIME TO BOOST LINKS LI TELLS 3 LEADERS
While meeting with Uzbek Prime Minister Abdulla Aripov, Li said China will work with Uzbekistan to advance projects of production capacity cooperation and connectivity... READ MORE›
IRAN SEES ALARMING SURGE IN HIV SPREAD THROUGH SEX ESPECIALLY AMONG YOUTH UNAWARE THEYRE INFECTED
More than 50 percent of those with HIV in Iran are between 21 and 35, said Parvin Afsar Kazerouni, the head of the Health Ministry's AIDS department... READ MORE›
AFGHAN GIRLS, WHO WERE TWICE DENIED US VISA, WIN ENTREPRENEURSHIP CHALLENGE IN EUROPE
Theirs was the same team that was denied visas twice in the United States of America... READ MORE›
"OUR APPROACH TO SOUTH ASIA AND SPECIFICALLY AFGHANISTAN MEANS NEW APPROACHES WITH INDIA AND PAKISTAN TO DENY SAFE HAVENS TO TERRORIST ORGANISATIONS," STATE DEPARTMENT INSPECTOR GENERAL STEVE A. LINICK SAID.
The report pointed out that the State Department has no staff in Pakistan for verifying satisfactory contractor performance or monitoring whether required reports were submitted... READ MORE›
NOW PUTIN IS BEING ASKED TO BRING PEACE TO AFGHANISTAN
Russia has a significant role in bringing the Taliban to the negotiating table, Afghan National Security Adviser Mohammad Haneef Atmar told reporters in Moscow on Thursday... READ MORE›
THREE GEORGIAN MILITARY PERSONNEL WOUNDED IN AFGHANISTAN
Georgia, one of the largest contributing nations to the 13,500-strong Resolute Support mission, has around 870 troops in Afghanistan, behind only Germany, Italy and the United States... READ MORE›
ICC PROSECUTOR SEEKS PROBE OF ALLEGED CRIMES BY U.S. PERSONNEL AND TALIBAN IN AFGHANISTAN
Established in 2002, the International Criminal Court is the world's first permanent court set up to prosecute war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide... READ MORE›
ICC SEEKS TO INVESTIGATE CIA, U.S. MILITARY FOR ALLEGED WAR CRIMES
The U.S. State Department said in a statement that it was reviewing Bensouda's authorization request, but opposes the International Criminal Court's involvement in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
3 AID WORKERS FATALLY SHOT IN AFGHANISTAN
Three Afghan aid workers employed by Catholic Relief Services were gunned down and killed in central Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday... READ MORE›
AFGHAN ARMY RECRUITMENT DWINDLES AS TALIBAN THREATENS FAMILIES
KUNDUZ, Afghanistan -- Rahimullah served in the Afghan Army for two years, deployed to the bloody front lines of the southern province of Helmand... READ MORE›
A POLICEMANS BEAR HUG STOPS A SUICIDE BOMBER FROM KILLING MORE
Broad-shouldered and heavily muscled, Lieutenant Pacha shouted at the suspect to halt, but instead the man started running... READ MORE›
AFGHANISTAN'S BOOMING HEROIN TRADE LEAVES TRAIL OF ADDICTION AT HOME
In 2001, the last year of its rule, the Taliban outlawed opium cultivation, but they have since reversed course... READ MORE›
SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS NINE NEAR AFGHAN POLITICAL MEETING
In June, a suicide bomber attacked a meeting of Jamiat-i-Islami leaders, including Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah... READ MORE›
SUICIDE BOMBER STRIKES KABUL POLITICAL GATHERING KILLING AT LEAST 12
The gathering was called to show support for a senior party member, Atta Mohammed Noor, a former militia leader and longtime governor of northern Balkh province... READ MORE›
U.S. WANTS TO BUILD 'TSUNAMI OF AIR POWER' IN AFGHANISTAN, BUT IMPACT IS YEARS AWAY
All were seasoned Mi-17 pilots, mostly in their 30s and 40s, and they seemed confident in their ability to transfer their skills to the Black Hawks... READ MORE›
U.N. SAYS IT BELIEVES AFGHANISTAN AIR STRIKE KILLED CIVILIANS
Credible reports that at least 10 civilians killed in Kunduz Afghanistan air strike 4 Nov, UNAMA initial findings show, it said... READ MORE›
REPORTER READS NEWS MINUTES AFTER ISIL ATTACKS STATION
Defiant Parwiz Sapy appeared calm and collected on Shamshad TV as he announced to viewers on Tuesday The attack has ended... READ MORE›
U.N. SAYS BELIEVES AFGHANISTAN AIR STRIKE KILLED CIVILIANS
Credible reports that at least 10 civilians killed in Kunduz Afghanistan air strike 4 Nov, UNAMA initial findings show, it said... READ MORE›
'THEY CANNOT SILENCE US': KABUL TV STATION BACK ON AIR MOMENTS AFTER ATTACK
It was the first major attack on an Afghan media organisation since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001... READ MORE›
FIGHTERS STORM TV STATION IN AFGHANISTANS KABUL
At least one security guard was killed as fighters stormed a private television station in the Afghan capital, Kabul... READ MORE›
GUNMEN STORM TV STATION IN KABUL
Last year seven members of staff from the private Tolo television station were killed in a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul... READ MORE›
GUNMEN ON MOTORCYCLE KILL PAKISTANI CONSULATE EMPLOYEE IN AFGHANISTAN
KABUL - A Pakistani employee of the Pakistan Consulate was shot and killed in the eastern Nangarhar province on Sunday, an Afghan official said... READ MORE›
US AIRSTRIKES KILL SCORES OF CIVILIANS IN KUNDUZ PROVINCE, AFGHANS SAY
A US soldier was killed on Saturday after sustaining injuries on an operation in Logar in the eastern part of the country, the US military said... READ MORE›
AFGHANISTAN MOVES TO BLOCK WHATSAPP, TELEGRAM MESSAGING SERVICES
Use of social media and mobile instant messaging services has exploded in Afghanistan over recent years... READ MORE›
AMERICAN AND BRITAIN COULD FACE A WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATION OVER AFGHANISTAN
The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is to seek approval to open a formal investigation into allegations of war crimes in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
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DEFENSE DEPARTMENT: THE WAR ON TERROR HAS COST $250 MILLION A DAY FOR 16 YEARS
A 2011 paper from Harvard Kennedy School professor Linda Bilmes estimated the cost of veterans' benefits as 600 billion to 1 trillion over the next 40 years... READ MORE›
TALIBAN HOSTAGE FAMILY FREED BY PAKISTANI TROOPS
A North American family of five are released from Afghan Taliban captivity by Pakistani troops... READ MORE›
NANCY DUPREE: RENOWNED US HISTORIAN DIES IN AFGHANISTAN
She also established the Louis and Nancy Hatch Dupree Foundation, which promotes the history and culture of Afghanistan... READ MORE›
CANADIAN SAYS CHILD KILLED, WIFE RAPED IN AFGHANISTAN
Former hostage Joshua Boyle says Haqqani network killed his infant daughter and raped his wife while in captivity... READ MORE›
KIDNAPPED CANADIAN-AMERICAN FAMILY FREED IN PAKISTAN GUN BATTLE AFTER 5 YEARS IN CAPTIVITY
I've personally written to several of the most senior government officials in Afghanistan, those with great power over the execution of your brothers, Patrick Boyle says... READ MORE›
ANGER IN KABUL AFTER US AIR RAID WOUNDS CIVILIANS
US forces are equally killing civilians, just like the Taliban, he said... READ MORE›
TRUMP STIFFED GOLD STAR DAD AFTER PROMISING HIM $25K CHECK
He said, 'I'm going to write you a check out of my personal account for 25,000,' and I was just floored, Baldridge told the paper... READ MORE›
ISIS IN AFGHANISTAN IS US TOOL TO CAUSE TROUBLE IN WHOLE REGION - EX-AFGHAN PRESIDENT KARZAI TO RT
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai says ISIS is tool of the US in Afghanistan, used to destabilize whole region... READ MORE›
AFGHAN MILITANT GROUP KILLED OUR INFANT DAUGHTER
U.S. officials have long accused Pakistan of ignoring groups like the Haqqani network, which was holding the family... READ MORE›
MATTIS MET WITH ROCKETS IN KABUL AHEAD OF AFGHAN TALKS
Afghanistan has struggled to combat offensives by Taliban fighters in the country since the withdrawal of US-led NATO troops at the end of 2014... READ MORE›
NANCY HATCH DUPREE, AN AMERICAN ICON IN KABUL, DIES
Louis Dupree died of cancer in 1989, the year the Soviets pulled out of Afghanistan, but Nancy carried on their research, writing and collecting efforts... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | WHAT WERE CAITLAN COLEMAN AND JOSHUA BOYLE REALLY DOING IN AFGHANISTAN?
Why did Boyle and Coleman, seven months pregnant, decide to go to Kabul?... READ MORE›
MILITANTS ATTACK KABUL AIRPORT DURING MATTIS VISIT US STRIKE HITS CIVILIANS
Ghani said his government remains open to talks with the Taliban as well as a peace strategy involving Pakistan... READ MORE›
CAITLAN COLEMAN AND JOSHUA BOYLE ARE FREE. THEIR MYSTERIOUS STORY IS RAISING NEW QUESTIONS.
The patriarch of the Khadr family was killed in 2003, along with al-Qaeda and Taliban members, in a shootout with Pakistani security forces near the Afghanistan border... READ MORE›
DEADLY ATTACK HITS AFGHAN POLICE TRAINING CENTRE
In June, Gardez' police headquarters was attacked by Taliban fighters, killing at least five officers... READ MORE›
JOSHUA BOYLE SAYS TALIBAN-LINKED CAPTORS RAPED CAITLAN COLEMAN, KILLED INFANT DAUGHTER
Coleman and Boyle were abducted in October 2012 while traveling in a remote area of Afghanistan outside Kabul... READ MORE›
AT LEAST EIGHT KILLED IN SUICIDE ATTACK ON PROVINCIAL AFGHAN POLICE HQ
A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a provincial Afghan police headquarters on Tuesday, killing at least six people and wounding 30, officials said... READ MORE›
AFGHAN SUICIDE MOSQUE ATTACKS KILL SCORES OF WORSHIPPERS
Some 60 people have been killed in two separate attacks on mosques in Afghanistan, officials say... READ MORE›
TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON AFGHAN FORCES KILLS 13
The resurgent Taliban are at the peak of their summer fighting season and have been ramping up their campaign against government forces... READ MORE›
TILLERSON AND THE MISSING WALL CLOCK
Images show him meeting President Ashraf Ghani in a windowless room at Bagram Airfield, under a US military clock and a red fire alarm... READ MORE›
AMERICAN WOMAN AND FAMILY FREED IN PAKISTAN FIVE YEARS AFTER BEING KIDNAPPED BY TALIBAN
The release also could help ease tensions between the United States and Pakistan over efforts against the Taliban and other militant groups along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border... READ MORE›
TALIBAN ATTACKS KILL AT LEAST 69 ACROSS AFGHANISTAN
Taliban militants struck government targets in many provinces of Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, including a senior police commander, and wounding scores of others... READ MORE›
AFGHAN OFFICERS KILLED IN 'ERRONEOUS' AIR STRIKE
As the Afghan military attempts to push back Taliban fighters, an air strike has killed 10 security personnel in Helmand province, according to an official... READ MORE›
AFGHAN ARMY BASE DESTROYED BY TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBERS
At least 43 Afghan soldiers have been killed after two suicide bombers in Humvee trucks targeted a military base in the southern province of Kandahar... READ MORE›
PLAN FOR NEW AFGHAN FORCE REVIVES FEARS OF MILITIA ABUSES
John W. Nicholson, the commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
12 AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES KILLED IN KANDAHAR
Taliban spokesman Qari Yusouf Ahmadi said the Taliban captured Maroof for a few hours and after removing weapons and other items left the district... READ MORE›
SHIA MOSQUE ATTACKED IN AFGHAN CAPITAL, KABUL
Attackers have targeted a Shia mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, in what officials say is an ongoing incident... READ MORE›
A TALE OF TWO HOTELS A BUDDHA BEHIND EACH
BAMIAN, Afghanistan -- The two hotels are separated by a 400-yard stretch of asphalt road, but they seem worlds apart... READ MORE›
AFGHAN PRESIDENT HAS 'WORST JOB ON EARTH'
Mr Ghani is full of praise for US President Donald Trump, who finally announced last month that his government was ready to stay in Afghanistan indefinitely... READ MORE›
SIGAR REPORT PUTS AFGHAN SECURITY DEFICIENCIES IN FOCUS
When the idea of creating the Afghan National Security Forces ANSF came up, it was a rapid building up of the army... READ MORE›