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RAID IN YEMEN RISKY FROM THE START AND COSTLY IN THE END
Indeed, the Pentagon is drafting such plans to accelerate activities against the Qaeda branch in Yemen... READ MORE›
QUESTIONS MOUNT OVER TRUMPS APPROVAL OF BOTCHED RAID
The special forces, apparently lacking full intelligence, were confronted by heavily-fortified positions, including landmines, and faced heavy gunfire from buildings all around during the 50-minute firefight... READ MORE›
GI KILLED FREEING PRISONERS OF ISIS IN IRAQ FIRST IN 4 YEARS
Iraqi officials said the raid involved American helicopters, Kurdish and American Special Operations forces, and airstrikes... READ MORE›
TWO U.S. TROOPS DIE BATTLING ISLAMIC STATE MILITANTS IN EASTERN AFGHANISTAN
John Nicholson, the commander of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, referring to the Islamic State branch in Afghanistan, known as Islamic State-Khorasan Province... READ MORE›
TRUMP FAVORS SPECIAL OPS AND LOCAL TROOPS AS OBAMA DID
But Mr. Trump seems to have taken that appreciation and reliance to another level... READ MORE›
'BIN LADEN'S SON HAMZA URGES TERROR ATTACK' ON LONDON IN AL-QAEDA MESSAGE
Hamza Bin Laden calls to move the war from Kabul, Gaza and Baghdad, to Washington, London, Paris and Tel-Aviv... READ MORE›
POWERFUL BLASTS KILL AT LEAST 80 IN KABUL PROTEST
ISIL claims responsibility for blasts targeting a demonstration by members of Afghanistan's Hazara minority in Kabul... READ MORE›
KABUL BLAST HITS HAZARA PROTEST - '29 DEAD AND SCORES HURT'
They are angry that the route bypasses areas with large Hazara populations... READ MORE›
AFGHAN MILITIAS INSPIRE FEAR IN VILLAGES
In Ghazni Province, the drive to create anti-Taliban militias gained momentum after a series of anti-Taliban uprisings in 2012 emerged in areas once considered lost... READ MORE›
80 DEAD AND HUNDREDS INJURED AFTER 'ISIS SUICIDE BOMBER' STRIKES KABUL
In a statement issued by its news agency, Aamaq, Isis group claimed responsibility for the attack on a protest march by Afghanistan's ethnic Hazaras... READ MORE›
ISIS CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR KABUL FATAL BOMB ATTACK ON HAZARA PROTESTERS
If true, it would mark the first attack by Isis in Kabul, and its largest ever in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
PUNISHING 16 PENTAGON SAYS MISTAKES LED TO HOSPITAL ATTACK IN AFGHANISTAN
His statement directly contradicted the claim by many senior Afghan officials that the hospital was being used by Taliban fighters and was therefore a legitimate target... READ MORE›
WE WASTED $113B IN AFGHANISTAN, NO WONDER 'AMERICA FIRST' RESONATES
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›
AFGHANISTAN VIOLENCE: DEADLY SUICIDE BOMB HITS KABUL
At least 28 people have been killed and 329 injured in a huge explosion in the centre of the Afghan capital Kabul, police and officials say... READ MORE›
A YOUNG MAN IS SKINNED ALIVE. A SIGN OF NEW TALIBAN BRUTALITY?
They note that violence in Afghanistan escalated last summer after it was announced that the Taliban's other former leader, Mohammad Omar, had died two years earlier... READ MORE›
AFGHAN SESAME STREET INTRODUCES ZARI A MUPPET AND ROLE MODEL FOR GIRLS
The director of communications for Sesame Workshop, Philip Toscano, said the Muppet was based on research aiming to develop a character that would resonate with viewers... READ MORE›
ISIS CLAIMS DEADLY BOMBING AT DEMONSTRATION IN KABUL AFGHANISTAN
As tempers flared at the government, protesters also pushed away anti-riot police forces who had provided security earlier in the day... READ MORE›
HUGE BLAST IN AFGHAN CAPITAL KILLS DOZENS
Police officials said that militants had entered the compound after the explosion and that Afghan security units had arrived in response... READ MORE›
ABOUT 12 RELEASED GUANTANAMO DETAINEES IMPLICATED IN ATTACKS ON AMERICANS
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›
TALIBAN NAME NEW LEADER AFTER CONFIRMING PREDECESSOR DIED IN US STRIKE
Mawlawi Haibatullah served as a top judge during the Taliban's rule of Afghanistan, in Kandahar as well as on the Supreme Court in Kabul... READ MORE›
SHOOTER'S FATHER SAYS HE'S SADDENED BY MASSACRE, CALLS GUNMAN 'A GOOD SON'
But Seddique Mateen appeared to maintain a strong affiliation to Afghanistan, hosting a television show broadcast from California that weighed in on the country's political affairs... READ MORE›
AFGHAN PRESIDENT, U.S. GENERAL VOW AMBITIOUS AIR WAR TO DEFEAT TALIBAN
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- With a just-delivered Black Hawk helicopter sitting on a military runway behind him, Gen... READ MORE›
U.S. SAYS LATE TALIBAN LEADER WAS PLANNING ATTACKS ON AMERICANS
According to Taliban officials, the movement has set up offices in Iran, which Mansour used to visit... READ MORE›
US ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN TURNS TO COMBAT AGAIN WITH A TRAGIC ERROR
The Taliban attacked the Afghan police compound at first light, coming from all sides at the American Green Berets holed up inside... READ MORE›
NEWS ANALYSIS AFGHAN WARS CONVENIENT MYTH A LIVING MULLAH OMAR
Moreover, any Taliban statements that sounded remotely like a peace overture were usually said to have Mullah Omar's imprimatur... READ MORE›
A CIA GRUNTS TALE OF THE FOG OF SECRET WAR
By 2011, Mr. Laux said it became a common refrain among Americans in Afghanistan that the United States had not been in the country for 10 years... 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›
US ARMY REOPENS INQUIRY INTO AFGHAN CIVILIANS DEATHS
American military officials insisted that Mr. Kandahari was not an American citizen many Afghan officials disputed that... READ MORE›
CORRUPTION SOILS AFGHANISTAN'S BRIGHT BLUE TREASURE
And there is no better evidence of just how deep corruption goes than the fate of one of Afghanistan's greatest treasures, the gemstone lapis lazuli... READ MORE›
TRUDEAU CONDEMNS KILLING OF 14 CANADIAN EMBASSY SECURITY GUARDS IN KABUL
The Canadian Embassy in Kabul confirms what it calls a 'cowardly attack' on its security company... READ MORE›