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›

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›

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 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›

ARMY SGT. BOWE BERGDAHL HEARAING: HARROWING DESCRIPTION OF SEARCH

Harrowing search described during sentencing hearing for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who has pleaded guilty to desertion and misbehavior... READ MORE›

CHEVRON MAY MISS MID-OCTOBER TARGET TO CLOSE SALE OF BANGLADESH GAS FIELDS

Chevron may miss mid-October target to close sale of Bangladesh gas fields sources... READ MORE›

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HOW CLASSROOMS LOOK AROUND THE WORLD -- IN 15 AMAZING PHOTOGRAPHS

Here are 15 pictures taken by Reuters photographers, revealing the spectrum of classrooms -- from those with literally no resources to those well-stocked and housed... READ MORE›

A FUNERAL OF 2 FRIENDS: C.I.A. DEATHS RISE IN SECRET AFGHAN WAR

WASHINGTON -- On a sweltering day earlier this summer, operatives with the Central Intelligence Agency gathered at Arlington National Cemetery to bury two of their own... READ MORE›

HEKMATYAR RETURNS TO KABUL AFTER 20 YEARS IN HIDING

But, he added, we welcome his arrival to Afghanistan if it leads to peace and stability ... READ MORE›

NXP TO BUY FREESCALE CREATE 40 BILLION COMPANY

Parveena was attending a seminar for junior policewomen in Jalalabad, the largest city in conservative eastern Afghanistan, where tribal law often trumps government authority... READ MORE›

AFGHANISTAN: GUNMEN ATTACK JALALABAD TV STATION

Several gunmen wearing suicide vests have attacked a national television and radio station in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, police have told Al Jazeera... READ MORE›

NO US STATEMENT ON DAMAGE DONE BY MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS

One senior Afghan security official in Kabul said on Tuesday that Thursday's bombing killed 96 Islamic State militants, 13 of them major commanders... READ MORE›

'AFGHAN GIRL' SHARBAT GULA IN QUEST FOR NEW LIFE

But I didn't expect that the Pakistani government would treat me like this at the end, Sharbat Gula told me at her temporary residence in Kabul... READ MORE›

'I NEVER STOPPED PRAYING OUR LIVES MIGHT RETURN TO NORMAL'

Osama bin Laden's family on the run 'I never stopped praying our lives might return to normal'... 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›

OBAMA TO KEEP TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN PAST 2016

Officials Obama to keep troops in Afghanistan past 2016... READ MORE›

OBAMA OUTLINES PLAN TO KEEP 5,500 TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN

Obama outlines plan to keep 5 500 troops in afghanistan... READ MORE›

5 million registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan, and there are many more hundreds of thousands of unregistered Afghans living in the country... READ MORE›

EXCLUSIVE: IN TURF WAR WITH AFGHAN TALIBAN, ISLAMIC STATE LOYALISTS GAIN GROUND

IS supporters have proved ruthless, reportedly beheading several Taliban commanders, and IS' success in taking over swathes of Iraq and Syria underlines the risks to Afghanistan... READ MORE›

MORE US TROOPS SEEN STAYING IN AFGHANISTAN

The Taliban, whose main focus is toppling Afghanistan's government, is a problem for Afghan forces... READ MORE›

US' 'MOTHER OF ALL BOMBS' KILLED AT LEAST 90 ISIS MILITANTS IN AFGHANISTAN

US' 'Mother of All Bombs' killed at least 90 ISIS militants in Afghanistan Afghan officials... READ MORE›

06.50 REPORTERS IN AFGHANISTAN

Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan researcher, said This bombing of the MSF hospital in Kunduz marks a dark day for humanitarianism... READ MORE›

DISABLED IN WAR, AFGHAN SOLDIERS SEEK A LIVING ON THE STREETS

Bahader Khan, 33, a disabled Afghan National Army ANA soldier, walks next to his rickshaw car in Jalalabad province, Afghanistan... READ MORE›

US STEPS UP AIRSTRIKES IN AFGHANISTAN EVEN TARGETING ISIS

The vast majority of the strikes appear to remain focused on Taliban forces the traditional targets of American airstrikes here for more than a decade... READ MORE›

U.S. SAYS LATE TALIBAN LEADER WAS PLANNING ATTACKS ON AMERICANS

According to Taliban officials, the movement has set up offices in Iran, which Mansour used to visit... READ MORE›

ARCHITECT OF OSAMA BIN LADEN RAID

The operator later told McRaven, I knew immediately it was bin Laden... READ MORE›

KERRY CALLS FOR TRANSPARENT REAL INVESTIGATION INTO NEMTSOV KILLING

It is for this reason, among others, that Shirin Gul is hopeful that she might be granted an early release from prison... READ MORE›

SUDAN: PYRAMIDS, SOUQS AND GADDAFI'S HOTEL IN LAND TOURISM FORGOT

But under pressure from the US and Saudi Arabia, Sudan forced Bin Laden out in 1996 and seized some of his personal assets... READ MORE›

'THERE IS NOTHING HERE BUT DUST'

They live on the barren, rocky slope of Sorkha Khan along with scores of other families in eastern Afghanistan's Laghman Province... READ MORE›

U.S. MILITARY PLANE CRASHES IN AFGHANISTAN, KILLS 10

The incident took place at around midnight at Jalalabad airport in Afghanistan... 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›

BIN LADEN FEARED WIFES TOOTH HELD A TRACKING DEVICE

An undated will that Bin Laden is believed to have written by hand in the late 1990s was included in the documents released on Tuesday... READ MORE›

THE ISLAMIC STATE IS MAKING THESE AFGHANS LONG FOR THE TALIBAN

SAR SHAHI AFGHANISTAN When the Islamic State fighters seized the Mahmand Valley they poured pepper into the wounds of their enemies said villagers... READ MORE›

U.S. PLEDGES TO KEEP FUNDING AFGHANS AMID CALLS FOR SLOWER PULLOUT

Commitments to Afghanistan, showed the Taliban and others the United States was prepared for the long-term to support our friends... 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›

TO THE NEW TALIBAN LEADER: WHAT TO EXPECT

Islamabad always likes to have a big say in what the Taliban does... READ MORE›