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US SOLDIERS TOLD TO IGNORE AFGHAN ALLIES ABUSE OF BOYS
After each case, Captain Quinn would gather the Afghan commanders and lecture them on human rights... READ MORE›
POSSIBLE U.S. AIRSTRIKE HITS DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS HOSPITAL; AT LEAST 9 DEAD
Military jets have conducted numerous airstrikes in Kunduz after the Taliban overwhelmed Afghan security forces on Monday... READ MORE›
UN SAYS AFGHAN TALIBANS REACH IS WIDEST SINCE 2001
All four of the United Nations provincial evacuations took place in northern Afghanistan... READ MORE›
US IS STRUGGLING IN ITS EFFORT TO BUILD AN AFGHAN AIR FORCE
An Afghan public affairs officer tried to shush the colonel as he spoke to a journalist at the Afghan Air Force base at Kabul airport... READ MORE›
AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES STRUGGLE JUST TO MAINTAIN STALEMATE
But by one important measure, Lieutenant Javed and the other soldiers in the district are succeeding The Taliban flag does not yet fly over Musa Qala... READ MORE›
KABUL POLICE BOSS QUITS AMID ATTACKS
The Taliban have stepped up attacks in Afghanistan as most foreign combat troops prepare to leave the country next month... READ MORE›
ATTACKERS IN AFGHAN UNIFORMS KILL 2 NATO SOLDIERS
Officials had repeatedly warned that if Musa Qala fell the Taliban could tighten their grip on northern Helmand... READ MORE›
A TALIBAN PRIZE WON IN HOURS AFTER YEARS OF STRATEGY
Further, Kunduz Province is far from the only place in Afghanistan where the Taliban have employed similar tactics around provincial capitals this year... READ MORE›
TEBBIT WANTS EU MIGRANTS TO BE ASSESSED BY WHO THEIR FAMILY FOUGHT FOR IN WORLD WAR II
Taliban attacks on Thursday and Friday on Camp Bastion, in southern Helmand Province, were symbolic as well as deadly... READ MORE›
AFGHAN OFFICIALS KILLED BY TALIBAN IN 3 ATTACKS
The insurgents in Musa Qala are entirely Taliban forces... READ MORE›
BOUNTIFUL AFGHAN OPIUM HARVEST YIELDS PROFITS FOR THE TALIBAN
As the opium harvest winds down across Helmand Province, Afghanistan's largest in territory and poppy cultivation, farmers and officials are reporting high yields... READ MORE›
NPR JOURNALIST AND TRANSLATOR KILLED IN AMBUSH
Mr. Gilkey was an award-winning journalist who had extensive experience covering conflicts in Gaza, South Africa, Iraq, the Balkans and Afghanistan... READ MORE›
FOUND ALIVE SOLDIERS ARE TOLD YOU OWE US FOR BURIALS
BEHSUD, Afghanistan -- The first time Noor ul-Haq died, his Afghan Army outpost was completely cut off by the Taliban on a bleak southern battleground... READ MORE›
THE OPIUM WAR PENETRATING EVERY STAGE OF AFGHAN OPIUM CHAIN TALIBAN BECOME A CARTEL
Mullah Rashid is one of the highest-ranking Taliban members to be directly implicated in drug smuggling in recent years... READ MORE›
PHIL HUGHES DEATH CRICKETERS RALLY AROUND BOWLER SEAN ABBOTT WHO BOWLED FATAL DELIVERY
At least three Taliban insurgents stormed a Kabul guesthouse that the authorities said was occupied by a nongovernment organization... READ MORE›
DAVID GILKEY NPR JOURNALIST AND AFGHAN TRANSLATOR ARE KILLED IN AMBUSH
Mr. Gilkey was an award-winning journalist who had extensive experience covering conflicts in Gaza, South Africa, Iraq, the Balkans and Afghanistan... READ MORE›
FACING THE TALIBAN AND HIS PAST AN AFGHAN LEADER AIMS FOR A DIFFERENT ENDING
They control or contest at least 10 of the 14 districts in Helmand Province, Afghanistan's largest in both size and opium production... READ MORE›
CORRUPT COMBATANTS FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF LUCRATIVE AFGHAN DRUG TRADE
It is an expression heard often here in Helmand Province, the southwestern region that is the world capital of opium and heroin production... READ MORE›
NEW US GENERAL TAKES COMMAND OF COALITION FORCES IN AFGHANISTAN
General Campbell led the forces in Afghanistan when a messy election stalemate in 2014 threatened to unravel the country... READ MORE›
AFGHAN POLICE OFFICER SUSPECTED OF HELPING TALIBAN KILL 10 COMRADES
Dehrawoud district is deteriorating because it has an open border with Helmand Province and is always threatened by the Taliban, Mr. Khadimzai said... READ MORE›
TALIBAN OVERRUN AFGHAN POLICE CHECKPOINTS IN HELMAND PROVINCE
Safdar Mohseni, the head of the Baghlan provincial council, said the Taliban had burned about 14 homes belonging to police officials as they were fleeing Mangala village... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIAN TROOPS FOUGHT AND DIED IN URUZGAN, NOW AFGHAN TROOPS ARE PULLING BACK
Australian troops were stationed in Uruzgan, operating from the Tarin Kowt military base, for 13 years... READ MORE›
ARMISTICE DAY: WHY WE STOP TO REMEMBER
Lance Corporal Nicky Mason was on a routine patrol when he was killed by an explosion in Helmand Province... READ MORE›
TALIBAN WARN OF ATTACKS IN NEW FIGHTING SEASON
That reversal cameA as Afghan forces faced intense pressure from Taliban militants throughout the country.A The Pentagon saidA no decisions have been made yet... READ MORE›
TALIBAN TARGET NATO CONVOY IN KABUL, POLICE OUTPOST WITH SUICIDE BLASTS
Taliban target nato convoy in kabul police outpost with suicide blasts... READ MORE›
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT NEW TALIBAN LEADER, MAWLAWI HIBATULLAH AKHUNDZADA
The Afghan Taliban have announced Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada as its new leader to replace Mullah Akhtar Mansour who was killed in a US drone strike... READ MORE›
AFGHAN POLICE SUSPECTED OF AIDING TALIBAN KILLED, DETAINED BY ARMY
Reports of fighting between police and soldiers added to upheaval in the embattled Helmand province... READ MORE›
AFGHANISTAN BOMBINGS KILL AT LEAST 24 | TORONTO STAR
The attack killed the man, who had been leading a local uprising against Taliban insurgents, along with 11 bystanders... READ MORE›
ROCKET STRIKE AT AFGHAN WEDDING KILLS 28
Afghan injured children are treated at hospital in Helmand province, south of Kabul, Afghanistan after a rocket killed dozens... READ MORE›
TALIBAN CLAIM SUICIDE BOMBING OUTSIDE AFGHAN POLICE ACADEMY
The attack happened in Nad Ali district, in Helmand province, a poppy-growing region that the Taliban seek to control, opium being their main source of income... READ MORE›