So established was Taliban rule in Khogyani that when ISIS fighters started shifting there, many people said they trusted in the Taliban's protection... READ MORE›
Northeastern Afghanistan, September 2, 2007 Paula Bronstein 5 16 2007 Bodybuilders in the 55-60 kg category square off during a regional bodybuilding competition... READ MORE›
Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan are using I.E.D.s, bunkers and tunnels to thicken their defense, said Gen... READ MORE›
The first time it was used operationally was in a US Air Force attack on Isis tunnels in Achin district, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, in April 2017... READ MORE›
But Mr. Ghani's office put out a brief post on Twitter, clearly aimed at Mr. Karzai Every Afghan has the right to speak their mind... READ MORE›
More tunnels were added during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and still more by the Islamic State... READ MORE›
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›
He was released in 2005, and joined the Pakistani Taliban before defecting to the new Islamic State branch... READ MORE›
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›
Pope Francis has criticised the naming of the US military's largest non-nuclear explosive ever used in combat as the mother of all bombs ... READ MORE›
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›
Known as the mother of all bombs, or MOAB, the device was dropped on Thursday evening by an MC-130 transport plane, falling in Nangarhar's Achin district... READ MORE›
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›
John W. Nicholson, the commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
As tempers flared at the government, protesters also pushed away anti-riot police forces who had provided security earlier in the day... READ MORE›
ISIS-K refers to ISIS-Khorasan, the terror group's affiliate in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
The United States has used its largest non-nuclear bomb ever deployed in combat, killing at least 36 militants in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
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›
It is for this reason, among others, that Shirin Gul is hopeful that she might be granted an early release from prison... READ MORE›
Children make their way home through a violent storm in Afghanistan's Nangahar Province... READ MORE›
There are currently 8,400 U.S. troops in the country, conducting counterterrorism operations against insurgents and training and advising Afghanistan's military... READ MORE›
It was the second time in a week that United States forces, working on intelligence provided by the Afghan government, targeted Islamic State fighters in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
Estimates for the number of Islamic State fighters in Nangarhar have ranged from 1,500 to 4,000, most of them former members of the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban... READ MORE›
The top US military commander in Afghanistan says the decision to use a powerful bomb in the country was based purely on tactical considerations... READ MORE›
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›
Instead, ISIL leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan Hafiz Saeed Khan was killed in the strike... READ MORE›
Manbij went wild with celebrations on Saturday as the Islamic State fighters departed... READ MORE›
Achin district governor Esmail Shinwari said the bomb landed in the Momand Dara area of Achin district... READ MORE›
Local time Thursday on a tunnel complex in Achin district of Nangarhar province, where the Afghan affiliate of the Islamic State group has been operating... READ MORE›
Besides advising work and special operations missions, American aircraft deployed at least 545 weapons in the first six months of 2016... READ MORE›
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