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CRIME CASUALTIES UNDERMINE US GAINS ON AFGHAN BATTLEFIELD
Although Taliban-controlled areas begin within a 10-minute drive of the city, Kunduz... 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›
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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›
TWO AMERICANS KILLED IN ATTACK ON BASE IN AFGHANISTAN
A gunman reportedly wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops in Kabul... 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›
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›
MASSIVE BOMB DROPPED BY U.S. KILLED 94, AFGHAN OFFICIAL SAYS
The U.S. attack on a tunnel complex in remote eastern Nangarhar province near the Pakistan border killed at least four ISIS group leaders, Khogyani said... 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›
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›
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›
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›
TALIBAN PRESENT GENTLER FACE BUT WIELD IRON FIST IN AFGHAN DISTRICT
But in most ways, the social restrictions that made the Taliban international pariahs during their reign have been resurrected in full in Baghran... READ MORE›
HELMAND: TALIBAN KILL POLICEMEN AND CONFISCATE WEAPONS
Taliban attack on an army post led to intense fighting with Afghan forces in Helmand, causing deaths on both sides... READ MORE›
SUICIDE BLAST HITS SOUTHERN AFGHAN CITY UNDER TALIBAN SIEGE; AT LEAST 14 DEAD
Authorities said the bomber and three other insurgents were killed, and Afghan security forces conducted house-to-house searches for any hidden Taliban fighters... READ MORE›
BACK IN AFGHAN HOT SPOT US MARINES CHASE DIMINISHED GOALS
Marines have returned to Helmand Province to help Afghan forces regain ground lost to the Taliban, and this time there is no timetable for leaving... READ MORE›
TALIBAN RESTART SECRET TALKS WITH AFGHANISTAN IN QATAR
The United States has continued to provide air power and other military support to Kabul, preventing the Taliban from making more ground... READ MORE›
A HUMANITARIAN CRISIS LOOMS IN AFGHANISTAN AS THE NUMBER OF DISPLACED CLIMBS
But now, -Afghanistan is witnessing some of its worst violence since the United States helped to topple the Taliban... READ MORE›
5 UAE DIPLOMATS DISCUSSING AFGHAN AID PROJECTS KILLED IN KANDAHAR BLAST
This attack is against the national security of Afghanistan, Ghorzang said... 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›
US AIR RAID KILLS AFGHAN FORCES IN HELMAND
NATO set to discuss sending more soldiers to Afghanistan, but many in Kabul fear such a move could prolong war... READ MORE›
300 MARINES TO AID FIGHT AGAINST TALIBAN IN SPRING
Our mujahedeen continued their progress in the presence of tens of thousands of Americans and other invading forces, said Qari Yousef Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman... READ MORE›
AFGHANISTAN FORCES STRUGGLE TO HOLD FIRM AGAINST TALIBAN
The Taliban fighters, many of them retreating from Nawa, shifted to exert pressure on the center of the neighboring district of Garmsir... READ MORE›
29 DEAD AFTER CAR BOMB HITS AFGHAN BANK IN RESTIVE HELMAND PROVINCE, GOVERNOR SAYS
The Defense Department is finalizing plans to send more troops to Afghanistan where there are now 8,400 U.S. forces... READ MORE›
DEADLY SUICIDE BLAST STRIKES LASHKAR GAH IN HELMAND
Qari Yusuf Ahmadi, a Taliban spokesman, claimed on Twitter that 39 soldiers and officers had been killed and wounded in the martyrdom attack ... 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›
FORMER AFGHAN PRESIDENT HAMID KARZAI CRITICISES FOREIGN-LED COMBAT AGAINST TALIBAN
Those who ask foreign forces to bomb Afghanistan are not representing the Afghan people or their interests... READ MORE›