President Donald Trump thanked U.S. troops for their service on Thursday, assuring them we're really winning against America's foes as he celebrated Than... READ MORE›
All were seasoned Mi-17 pilots, mostly in their 30s and 40s, and they seemed confident in their ability to transfer their skills to the Black Hawks... READ MORE›
Algerian Djamel Ameziane says Canada was complicit in his detention and torture at US-run Guantanamo Bay prison... 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›
It was the first major attack on an Afghan media organisation since the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001... READ MORE›
Last year seven members of staff from the private Tolo television station were killed in a Taliban suicide bombing in Kabul... READ MORE›
Mariam Koofi, a parliament member from the northeastern Badakhshan province, lamented what she sees as an increasingly complicated fight for security in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
Before the Soviet invasion, night events in Kabul were routine, said Mubarez, who was deputy minister of culture under former Afghan King Mohammed Zahir Shar... READ MORE›
Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the attack, the latest in a particularly deadly week for Afghanistan's security forces... READ MORE›
The university, on the western outskirts of Kabul, is home to the Afghan military's officer training school and other training academies... READ MORE›
More than 70 people have been killed in twin suicide bombings on mosques in Afghanistan, government officials said... READ MORE›
The so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan has taken responsibility for most of the attacks targeting Shia, whom the Sunni extremist group considers to be apostates... READ MORE›
As part of the deal, Mr Stoneham will become executive chairman of Musto, with Peter Smith remaining chief executive of the shooting, sailing and ski brand... 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›
Taliban militants struck government targets in many provinces of Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 69 people, including a senior police commander, and wounding scores of others... 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›
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- With a just-delivered Black Hawk helicopter sitting on a military runway behind him, Gen... READ MORE›
The Afghan pilots are expected to begin flying their own missions in the Black Hawks by early next year, officials said... READ MORE›
Iraqi forces have captured the town of Hawija and the surrounding area from ISIL, one of their last strongholds in Iraq... READ MORE›
Gelani Farhad, spokesman for Herat's provincial governor, said another officer was wounded when a police vehicle triggered the explosive in the Adraskan district... 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›
I've also met some Vietnam veterans who have never spoken about their military service ever again... READ MORE›
On Wednesday, a Taliban attack targeting NATO troops in Kandahar killed two US soliders... READ MORE›
In February, Pakistan sealed all border crossings with Afghanistan for over a month after a wave of attacks across Pakistan killed more than 100 people... READ MORE›
A senior Taliban commander in the Pakistani city of Quetta said that 12 years of incarceration had also caused some psychological problems for Noori and Fazl... READ MORE›
From its inception, the drone program has been troubled by reports of mistaken targeting... READ MORE›
For many in the Taliban, Mullah Mansour's death represented a devastating betrayal by their longtime patron and sponsor, Pakistan, that has split and demoralized the ranks... READ MORE›
Today should be a happy day in Afghanistan as children go back to class for the first time after a long winter... READ MORE›
However, the Taliban claimed to have killed at least 70 soldiers and to have seized a number of army vehicles, equipment, machinery and weapons... 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›
Abdul Rashid Dostum flew to Turkey on Friday evening reportedly for medical treatment, according to sources in the Afghan government... READ MORE›
On Thursday, at least five security officials were killed and several wounded in a Taliban-claimed car bomb attack near their checkpost also in the Gereshk district... READ MORE›
A Taliban attack on a military base in Kandahar province has left at least 15 Afghan soldiers dead, according to government officials... READ MORE›
It was collective punishment, Sami Yousafzai, an Afghan journalist who has covered the war and Taliban since their emergence, told Al Jazeera... READ MORE›
In recent years, the United States-led coalition fighting the Taliban has been drawn down to a small mission... READ MORE›
Acting Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish said at least 24 people had been killed and 40 wounded but the casualty toll could rise further... READ MORE›
Osama bin Laden's family on the run 'I never stopped praying our lives might return to normal'... READ MORE›
The Chaman crossing into Afghanistan's Kandahar province was reopened on humanitarian grounds after Afghan officials submitted a request, according to a statement by the Pakistani military... 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›
Officials Obama to keep troops in Afghanistan past 2016... READ MORE›
Taliban territory Life in Afghanistan under the militants... READ MORE›
This comes when Iraqi forces, backed by America, are also conducting a massive anti-ISIS operation in the area focusing on Mosul and surrounding villages... READ MORE›
Obama outlines plan to keep 5 500 troops in afghanistan... READ MORE›
After 15 years, The reconstruction effort in Afghanistan is in a perilous state, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko concludes in his 236-page report... READ MORE›
In August, Germany blocked 46 percent of migrants from Austria, compared with 7 percent in January... READ MORE›
Even before the latest atrocity, the United Nations had warned that this year was proving deadlier for civilians in Kabul than anywhere else in the country... READ MORE›
Once the hotbed of the Taliban insurgency, Kandahar has remained relatively stable as district after district in surrounding provinces has fallen to the militants... READ MORE›
Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan Reach New High, U.N. Says... READ MORE›
Dozens of people have been killed in a Taliban attack on a heavily fortified civilian and military airfield in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar... READ MORE›
The Taliban, whose main focus is toppling Afghanistan's government, is a problem for Afghan forces... READ MORE›
Edward R. Royce R-Calif., who chairs the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has also written legislation that would require greater transparency surrounding the transfer of Guantanamo detainees... READ MORE›
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