Rival politician Ahmad Ishchi claims Abdul Rashid Dostum's bodyguards tortured him and held him for five days... READ MORE›
General Dostum's supporters have insisted that Mr. Ishchi was not abducted but, rather, arrested by security forces on charges of aiding the Taliban in Jowzjan Province... READ MORE›
He suggested that Trump's bluntness and masculine approach may be useful for deterring the insurgencies that are thwarting Afghanistan's path to stability and development... READ MORE›
The Taliban has warned President Donald Trump to reverse U.S. policy on Afghanistan or face a historically shameful defeat, a U.S.-based monitoring group... READ MORE›
On the rare occasions Trump has spoken about Afghanistan, he has sounded as conflicted as his predecessor... READ MORE›
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›
To defend themselves and Afghan forces, US forces returned fire in self-defence at Taliban who were using civilian houses as firing positions, the statement added... READ MORE›
A??On this occasion the Taliban chose to hide amongst civilians and then attacked Afghan and U.S. forces,a??... READ MORE›
Earlier this month, the United States announced it would deploy 300 more Marines to Helmand province, a Taliban stronghold that has seen fierce fighting in recent months... READ MORE›
The two Taliban figures, responsible for violence in Kunduz the previous month, were killed in the operation... READ MORE›
A US military investigation has found that air raids targeting the Taliban during a gun battle in northern Afghanistan's Kunduz province last year killed 33 civilians... READ MORE›
On this occasion the Taliban chose to hide amongst civilians and then attacked Afghan and U.S. forces... READ MORE›
In 2014, the Haqqani group released Bowe Bergdahl, a US soldier, in exchange for five Taliban prisoners... READ MORE›
This attack is against the national security of Afghanistan, Ghorzang said... READ MORE›
Former Afghan interpreters for the French army organised parallel protests in Kabul and Paris on Tuesday, citing death threats from Islamist insurgents and demanding visas... READ MORE›
A police official said a suicide attacker approached an intelligence agency building in Kabul before detonating his explosives... READ MORE›
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›
The US Marines will deploy 300 troops to Afghanistan's embattled southern Helmand province as part of NATO's advise-assist mission... READ MORE›
One police substation in Kabul sent 26 cases of moral crimes -- which include rape cases -- to forensic medicine in 2015, and most involved virginity tests... READ MORE›
Deportations of Afghan refugees from Pakistan swelled this year, with 100,000 repatriated in September alone... READ MORE›
Pakistan's request for all three million Afghan refugees to leave is causing chaos on its borders and plunging families into uncertainty... READ MORE›
The Middle East Press claims a government spokesman told them Taliban militants killed her for the infidelity act of going shopping without a male guardian... READ MORE›
Abdurrashid Dostum, a former warlord, has vowed to fight prosecution in a new case... READ MORE›
A recipient of the U.S. State Department's Women of Courage award in 2015, Capt... READ MORE›
Things are not changing for the better in Afghanistan, Captain Rahmani said in an interview on Friday... READ MORE›
I told him Afghanistan, and he said to me in Dari, 'Don't worry you're safe now... READ MORE›
Like fellow Afghan Mohebzada, Soltani sought asylum in Germany because the Taliban had made repeated threats to kill him and he saw no other option... READ MORE›
Afghan men inspects the remains of belongings at a lawmaker's home in western Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday after a gunmen attack... READ MORE›
Matthew Ball relied heavily on his Afghan interpreter during a yearlong mission in one of Afghanistan's most dangerous areas, entrusting him daily with his life... READ MORE›
'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›
After each case, Captain Quinn would gather the Afghan commanders and lecture them on human rights... READ MORE›
The military has been playing an increasingly active role in Afghanistan amid a Taliban resurgence, particularly in the northern province of Kunduz... READ MORE›
LONDON -- First the Pakistani Taliban bombed or burned over 1,000 schools... READ MORE›
A suicide bomber has killed four people inside Bagram air base, the largest US military facility in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
Taimur the Lame, often known as Timur or Tamerlane, was a brutal Mongol invader who conquered many parts of Persia and central Asia... READ MORE›
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›
An ISIL attack on the ethnic minority on July 23 in Kabul killed 84 people and wounded 130 others... READ MORE›
300 ISIS Fighters Killed in Afghanistan Operation U.S... READ MORE›
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›
National Geographic's iconic, green-eyed Afghan Girl was arrested Wednesday at her home in Peshawar, Pakistan, on charges she possessed a forged national identification card, authorities said... READ MORE›
She was just 12 when she was photographed by Steve McCurry in a camp for displaced people in Peshawar, the biggest city along Pakistan's frontier with Afghanistan... READ MORE›
Military jets have conducted numerous airstrikes in Kunduz after the Taliban overwhelmed Afghan security forces on Monday... READ MORE›
Kabul Polytechnic university student was accused by the group of killing a senior Taliban official... READ MORE›
Figures from government and UNODC show 10 percent increase in poppy cultivation and 91 percent decrease in eradication... READ MORE›
Migrant children are being failed by uk, says lords committee report... READ MORE›
The U.S.-led invasion into Afghanistan toppled the Taliban from power after the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center andA the Pentagon... READ MORE›
A gunman reportedly wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops in Kabul... READ MORE›
Islamic State recruitment document seeks to provoke 'end of the world'... READ MORE›
They chanted slogans against the government, the Taliban and neighboring Pakistan, which is seen as having a hand in Afghanistan's Islamist insurgency... READ MORE›
The name of the show refers to the Durand Line, the long-disputed border that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan... READ MORE›
Afghanistan's president, Ashraf Ghani, has welcomed back Sharbat Gula, the green... READ MORE›
LAHORE Pakistan More than 260 people were killed when a magnitude-7.5 earthquake centered in Afghanistan rocked neighboring Pakistan and rattled buildings as far away as India... READ MORE›
It was the only free trauma care hospital in northern Afghanistan, according to Doctors Without Borders... READ MORE›
General Campbell was clear that he, too, would prefer to keep as many troops in Afghanistan for as long as possible... READ MORE›
Mr. Ishchi has been involved in politics in the north for decades and helped General Dostum found the Junbish party, which he leads now... READ MORE›
A former foreign correspondent based in New Delhi and Kabul, she reports periodically from Afghanistan and other trouble spots overseas... READ MORE›
General Sharif later left to visit Kabul, the Afghan capital, for a special visit, a Pakistani military spokesman said... READ MORE›
In recent months, the Taliban have stepped up attacks across the country against Afghan security forces... READ MORE›
In this 2013 photo, a vehicle drives along a stretch of Highway 1 damaged by a roadside bomb in Sayedabad, Afghanistan... READ MORE›
Earlier this year a powerful blast targeting Shia worshippers during Ashura killed 14 people in northern Afghanistan... READ MORE›
Iraqi security forces and people gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's mainly Shi'ite district of Sadr City, May 17, 2016... READ MORE›
The United States has continued to provide air power and other military support to Kabul, preventing the Taliban from making more ground... READ MORE›
The US is failing to defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan because they haven't targeted the extremists' ideology, says Catherine Shakdam, Shafaqna Institute of Middle Eastern Studies... READ MORE›
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the blasts at the Defense Ministry... READ MORE›
Naser and Nizami ended up in the same cramped hospital ward Thursday, along with half a dozen other wounded students and police officers... READ MORE›
A U.S. airstrike last month killed Hafiz Sayed Khan, the head of the Islamic State's branch in Afghanistan, a Pentagon spokesman said Friday... READ MORE›
By being more aggressive, the Afghan military were more successful this year against the Taliban than in 2015, when they lost 5,000 men, Nicholson said... READ MORE›
The Taliban have launched an attack on a Kabul hotel for foreign workers and military personnel, with dozens of casualties... READ MORE›
A purported video of the teenage Afghan refugee who attacked passengers on a German train with an axe has emerged... READ MORE›
A Taliban suicide attack struck a police convoy outside the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday, killing at least 30 people and wounding 50, according to media reports... READ MORE›
Mullah Abdul Jabbbar, a Taliban commander in Nangarhar, said villagers had become tired with ISIS because of its harsh treatment of civilians... READ MORE›
For years, Taliban insurgents struck in the countryside. Recent violence in urban areas is start of a disturbing new chapter... READ MORE›
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