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›
Defiant Parwiz Sapy appeared calm and collected on Shamshad TV as he announced to viewers on Tuesday The attack has ended... READ MORE›
A US soldier was killed on Saturday after sustaining injuries on an operation in Logar in the eastern part of the country, the US military said... READ MORE›
John W. Nicholson, commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
Images show him meeting President Ashraf Ghani in a windowless room at Bagram Airfield, under a US military clock and a red fire alarm... READ MORE›
The Afghan security forces are facing a resurgent Taliban, and ISIL is also weighing in, Al Jazeera's Jennifer Glasse, reporting from Kabul, said... READ MORE›
At least 43 Afghan soldiers have been killed after two suicide bombers in Humvee trucks targeted a military base in the southern province of Kandahar... READ MORE›
The deputy interior minister, Murad Ali Murad, said the attacks on Tuesday had been the biggest this year... READ MORE›
In June, Gardez' police headquarters was attacked by Taliban fighters, killing at least five officers... READ MORE›
Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen have stormed a police training centre in the eastern Afghan city of Gardez, killing at least 33 people, officials say... READ MORE›
A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a provincial Afghan police headquarters on Tuesday, killing at least six people and wounding 30, officials said... READ MORE›
It came about five months after a US attack in Helmand province's Sangin district killed at least 18 civilians, mostly women and children... READ MORE›
Ghani said his government remains open to talks with the Taliban as well as a peace strategy involving Pakistan... READ MORE›
Taliban spokesman Qari Yusouf Ahmadi said the Taliban captured Maroof for a few hours and after removing weapons and other items left the district... READ MORE›
The statement said the original Taliban attackers had fired several rounds of high-explosive ammunition, including mortars, in the vicinity of the Kabul airport... READ MORE›
The statement said the original Taliban attackers had fired several rounds of high-explosive ammunition, including mortars, in the vicinity of the Kabul airport... READ MORE›
It is a classic example of what the Taliban are up to right now, Mattis said... READ MORE›
Afghan militants have unsuccessfully attempted to shoot a plane carrying the US defence secretary, James Mattis, during an attack on Kabul airport... READ MORE›
Support from US-led Nato troops would give Afghan forces a compelling battlefield advantage over anything the Taliban stands to mass against it, Gen Mattis said... READ MORE›
Stoltenberg said The more stable Afghanistan is the more safe we will be, adding that more than 15 NATO members had agreed to send additional troops... READ MORE›
Afghanistan has struggled to combat offensives by Taliban fighters in the country since the withdrawal of US-led NATO troops at the end of 2014... READ MORE›
When the idea of creating the Afghan National Security Forces ANSF came up, it was a rapid building up of the army... READ MORE›
Many military strategists, in the United States and Afghanistan, have penciled in plans well into the '20s, and certainly past any Trump re-election campaign... READ MORE›
A Spanish physiotherapist working at a Red Cross hospital in northern Afghanistan has been shot dead by a patient, the group says... 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›
140 Soldiers Killed in Taliban Attack on Afghan Base, Official Says... 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›
An Afghan army commando turned his weapon on U.S. soldiers Saturday, killing two and injuring two others in eastern Afghanistan, an Afghan official said... READ MORE›
Secret defence force documents obtained by the ABC give an unprecedented insight into the clandestine operations of Australia's elite special forces in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
A gunman reportedly wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops in Kabul... READ MORE›
Sweden rejects the asylum application of the world's oldest refugee... READ MORE›
'We are not winning in Afghanistan right now' The deaths of Afghan police came amid increased fighting in Helmand, a southern province... READ MORE›
More than 16 years after they were driven from power, almost half of the country is either contested or under the control of the Taliban... READ MORE›
Elsewhere in Afghanistan, Taliban fighters attacked a district headquarters in the Kandahar province using a suicide car bomb, said Samim Khpolwak, a spokesman for the governor... READ MORE›
President Ashraf Ghani calls for an investigation into the deadliest ever Taliban attack on an Afghan military base... READ MORE›
In recent months, the Taliban have stepped up attacks across the country against Afghan security forces... READ MORE›
KABUL -- The nerve center of Afghan and NATO combat activities in northern Afghanistan is a sprawling military base in Balkh Province... READ MORE›
Last December, a motorcycle-riding Taliban suicide bomber killed six US soldiers near Afghanistan's largest US military base... READ MORE›
The violence comes as the White House is weighing a request from military commanders to add more American troops to train and support Afghanistan's security forces... READ MORE›
Explosions and gunfire ring out at security compounds in Kabul, witnesses say, as Taliban claims responsibility... READ MORE›
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›
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›
NATO set to discuss sending more soldiers to Afghanistan, but many in Kabul fear such a move could prolong war... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Powerful blast destroys a van traveling through restive Helmand province, killing all 11 passengers on board... READ MORE›
A leaked European Union memo dated March 3 discussed openly making pledges of aid at this week's conference conditional on Afghanistan's agreement with the repatriation deal... READ MORE›
Taliban claim responsibility for Afghanistan attack at Nato airfield in which Polish service member also wounded as US promises investigation... READ MORE›
The resurgent Taliban are at the peak of their summer fighting season and have been ramping up their campaign against government forces... READ MORE›
READ MORE ISIL expands in Afghan-Pakistan areas, widening attacks ISIL's offshoot in Afghanistan in Pakistan, known as the so-called Khorasan Province, was created in 2015... READ MORE›
Afghan security forces have recaptured a district in central Afghanistan that had fallen to the Taliban five days ago, officials said... READ MORE›
At least 140 Afghan soldiers have been killed after Taliban suicide attackers disguised as army personnel targeted a national army base in the north of the country... READ MORE›
The meeting comes on the heels of a request from military chiefs for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan... READ MORE›
Taliban territory Life in Afghanistan under the militants... READ MORE›
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