SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK KILLS 15 ARMY TRAINEES IN KABUL

The Afghan security forces are facing a resurgent Taliban, and ISIL is also weighing in, Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said... 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›

WAVE OF TALIBAN SUICIDE ATTACKS ON AFGHAN FORCES KILLS AT LEAST 74

The deputy interior minister, Murad Ali Murad, said the attacks on Tuesday had been the biggest this year... 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›

MILITARY BLUNDERS CONTINUE AFTER MSF KUNDUZ BOMBING

It came about five months after a US attack in Helmand province's Sangin district killed at least 18 civilians, mostly women and children... READ MORE›

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A senior Taliban commander in the Pakistani city of Quetta said that 12 years of incarceration had also caused some psychological problems for Noori and Fazl... READ MORE›

AFGHAN CIVILIANS KILLED IN NATO AIR STRIKE IN KUNDUZ

The air raids on Thursday were in support of US and Afghan forces during an attack targeting senior Taliban commanders, according to provincial spokesman Mahmood Danish... READ MORE›

140 SOLDIERS KILLED IN TALIBAN ATTACK ON AFGHAN BASE OFFICIAL SAYS

140 Soldiers Killed in Taliban Attack on Afghan Base, Official Says... READ MORE›

US ADMITS AIR STRIKES 'LIKELY' KILLED AFGHAN CIVILIANS

US forces in Afghanistan conceded on Saturday that their air strikes in the northern province of Kunduz had very likely resulted in civilian killings... READ MORE›

2 U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED BY AFGHAN ARMY SOLDIER IN INSIDER ATTACK

An Afghan army commando turned his weapon on U.S. soldiers Saturday, killing two and injuring two others in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said... READ MORE›

THE WAR AMERICA CAN'T WIN: HOW THE TALIBAN IS REGAINING CONTROL IN AFGHANISTAN

The Taliban controls places like Helmand, where the US and UK troops fought their hardest battles, pushing the drive toward peace and progress into reverse... READ MORE›

AFGHAN TALIBAN HANG UNIVERSITY STUDENT IN PUBLIC

Kabul Polytechnic university student was accused by the group of killing a senior Taliban official... READ MORE›

SWEDEN TO DEPORT 106YO AFGHANI WOMAN, WORLD'S 'OLDEST REFUGEE' - REPORTS

Sweden rejects the asylum application of the world's oldest refugee... READ MORE›

'WE ARE NOT WINNING IN AFGHANISTAN RIGHT NOW'

'We are not winning in Afghanistan right now' The deaths of Afghan police came amid increased fighting in Helmand, a southern province... READ MORE›

TALIBAN CAPTURES QALA-E-ZAL DISTRICT IN KUNDUZ PROVINCE

More than 16 years after they were driven from power, almost half of the country is either contested or under the control of the Taliban... 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›

AMERICAN SOLDIERS WOUNDED IN AFGHAN 'INSIDER ATTACK'

Elsewhere in Afghanistan, Taliban fighters attacked a district headquarters in the Kandahar province using a suicide car bomb, said Samim Khpolwak, a spokesman for the governor... READ MORE›

AFGHANISTAN MOURNS AFTER DEADLY TALIBAN ATTACK ON BASE

President Ashraf Ghani calls for an investigation into the deadliest ever Taliban attack on an Afghan military base... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 12 AFGHAN SOLDIERS DIE IN 'INSIDER ATTACK'

In recent months, the Taliban have stepped up attacks across the country against Afghan security forces... READ MORE›

AT LEAST 140 DEAD AFTER TALIBAN ATTACK ON MAJOR AFGHAN ARMY BASE, OFFICIAL SAYS

KABUL -- The nerve center of Afghan and NATO combat activities in northern Afghanistan is a sprawling military base in Balkh Province... READ MORE›

TALIBAN BOMBER KILLS 4 AMERICANS AT KEY NATO BASE

Last December, a motorcycle-riding Taliban suicide bomber killed six US soldiers near Afghanistan's largest US military base... READ MORE›

HORRIFIC AFGHANISTAN BOMBING HIGHLIGHTS STALEMATE IN LONGEST U.S. WAR

The violence comes as the White House is weighing a request from military commanders to add more American troops to train and support Afghanistan's security forces... READ MORE›

BLASTS, GUNFIRE ROCK KABUL, TALIBAN CLAIMS ATTACKS

Explosions and gunfire ring out at security compounds in Kabul, witnesses say, as Taliban claims responsibility... READ MORE›

MARINES BACK IN AFGHANISTAN FOR JOB THEY THOUGHT WAS DONE

At the peak of the war in southern Afghanistan, more than 20,000 Marines flooded the Taliban stronghold, pushing the insurgents out of several districts in Helmand... READ MORE›

TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS CIVILIANS IN HELMAND

Early in July, an American soldier was killed and two others were wounded in an attack in Helmand province while conducting operations against the Taliban... READ MORE›

DEADLY CAR BOMB HITS AFGHANISTAN'S LASHKAR GAH

At least 60 people were wounded in the attack outside the New Kabul Bank branch and most of the casualties were civilians, Hayaullah Hayat said... READ MORE›

TALIBAN CAPTURE KEY AFGHAN DISTRICT; 9 POLICE KILLED

Helmand, which accounts for the bulk of Afghanistan's billion dollar opium crop, is already largely in the hands of the Taliban but the capture of Sangin... READ MORE›

WHAT AN AFGHANISTAN VICTORY LOOKS LIKE UNDER THE TRUMP PLAN

Like many Taliban leaders, he said, he had hoped to hear Mr. Trump make good on early vows to quit Afghanistan... READ MORE›

HOPELESS AFGHAN STRUGGLE TO SAVE BOY SEX SLAVES

'Unconscionable' Bacha bazi has seen a chilling resurgence in post-Taliban Afghanistan, where it is not widely perceived as homosexual or un-Islamic behaviour... READ MORE›

ROADSIDE BOMB KILLS 11 IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN

Powerful blast destroys a van traveling through restive Helmand province, killing all 11 passengers on board... READ MORE›

EUROPE MAKES DEAL TO RETURN REFUGEES TO AFGHANISTAN WHERE WAR AWAITS THEM

A leaked European Union memo dated March 3 discussed openly making pledges of aid at this week's conference conditional on Afghanistan's agreement with the repatriation deal... 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›

HOW TERRORISM IN THE WEST COMPARES TO TERRORISM EVERYWHERE ELSE

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for killing at least 130 people in a string of terrorist attacks Friday in Paris... READ MORE›

POWERFUL BLASTS KILL AT LEAST 80 IN KABUL PROTEST

ISIL claims responsibility for blasts targeting a demonstration by members of Afghanistan's Hazara minority in Kabul... READ MORE›

US AIR RAIDS HIT AFGHAN TALIBAN AFTER TUNNEL ATTACK

US air raids hit Taliban positions in the contested Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan after the fighters used tunnels to attack government checkpoints, Afghan officials said... READ MORE›