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MILITARY BLUNDERS CONTINUE AFTER MSF KUNDUZ BOMBING
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›
AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES KILLED IN 'FRIENDLY FIRE' INCIDENT
Large parts of Helmand, Afghanistan's major opium-producing province, are in the hands of the Taliban... READ MORE›
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US SOLDIERS TOLD TO IGNORE AFGHAN ALLIES ABUSE OF BOYS
After each case, Captain Quinn would gather the Afghan commanders and lecture them on human rights... READ MORE›
POSSIBLE U.S. AIRSTRIKE HITS DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS HOSPITAL; AT LEAST 9 DEAD
Military jets have conducted numerous airstrikes in Kunduz after the Taliban overwhelmed Afghan security forces on Monday... READ MORE›
THE WAR AMERICA CAN'T WIN: HOW THE TALIBAN IS REGAINING CONTROL IN AFGHANISTAN
The Taliban controls places like Helmand, where the US and UK troops fought their hardest battles, pushing the drive toward peace and progress into reverse... READ MORE›
'WE ARE NOT WINNING IN AFGHANISTAN RIGHT NOW'
'We are not winning in Afghanistan right now' The deaths of Afghan police came amid increased fighting in Helmand, a southern province... READ MORE›
SERVICE HONOURS UK AFGHAN WAR EFFORT
At the peak of the 13-year campaign the UK military had 9,500 troops and 137 bases in Helmand Province... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE SHIRE MOVES TO PREPARE SALIX BID
On Saturday, coalition officials announced that a precision strike resulted in the death of two individuals threatening the force in the Achin district of eastern Afghanistan... READ MORE›
MARINES BACK IN AFGHANISTAN FOR JOB THEY THOUGHT WAS DONE
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›
TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBER KILLS CIVILIANS IN HELMAND
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›
MASSIVE BOMB DROPPED BY U.S. KILLED 94, AFGHAN OFFICIAL SAYS
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›
TALIBAN CAPTURE KEY AFGHAN DISTRICT; 9 POLICE KILLED
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›
WHAT AN AFGHANISTAN VICTORY LOOKS LIKE UNDER THE TRUMP PLAN
Like many Taliban leaders, he said, he had hoped to hear Mr. Trump make good on early vows to quit Afghanistan... READ MORE›
HOPELESS AFGHAN STRUGGLE TO SAVE BOY SEX SLAVES
'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›
ROADSIDE BOMB KILLS 11 IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN
Powerful blast destroys a van traveling through restive Helmand province, killing all 11 passengers on board... READ MORE›
EUROPE MAKES DEAL TO RETURN REFUGEES TO AFGHANISTAN WHERE WAR AWAITS THEM
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›
UN SAYS AFGHAN TALIBANS REACH IS WIDEST SINCE 2001
All four of the United Nations provincial evacuations took place in northern Afghanistan... READ MORE›
TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ON AFGHAN FORCES KILLS 13
The resurgent Taliban are at the peak of their summer fighting season and have been ramping up their campaign against government forces... READ MORE›
THE BAND OF BROTHERS FORGED IN AN AFGHAN MINEFIELD
Three of them lost legs, while Corporal Mark Wright, of the 3rd Battalion, The Parachute Regiment, suffered fatal wounds... READ MORE›
US AIR RAIDS HIT AFGHAN TALIBAN AFTER TUNNEL ATTACK
US air raids hit Taliban positions in the contested Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan after the fighters used tunnels to attack government checkpoints, Afghan officials said... READ MORE›
US IS STRUGGLING IN ITS EFFORT TO BUILD AN AFGHAN AIR FORCE
An Afghan public affairs officer tried to shush the colonel as he spoke to a journalist at the Afghan Air Force base at Kabul airport... READ MORE›
AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES STRUGGLE JUST TO MAINTAIN STALEMATE
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›
LIFE IN AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE MILITANTS
Taliban territory Life in Afghanistan under the militants... READ MORE›
HELMAND: TALIBAN KILL POLICEMEN AND CONFISCATE WEAPONS
Taliban attack on an army post led to intense fighting with Afghan forces in Helmand, causing deaths on both sides... READ MORE›
KABUL POLICE BOSS QUITS AMID ATTACKS
The Taliban have stepped up attacks in Afghanistan as most foreign combat troops prepare to leave the country next month... READ MORE›
TALIBAN CONFIRM DEATH OF LEADER AND WEIGH SUCCESSOR
The statement, in Pashto, was issued in the name of the Taliban as well as Mullah Omar's family... READ MORE›
BACK IN AFGHAN HOT SPOT US MARINES CHASE DIMINISHED GOALS
Marines have returned to Helmand Province to help Afghan forces regain ground lost to the Taliban, and this time there is no timetable for leaving... READ MORE›
VIDEO SUICIDE ATTACK ON PAKISTAN POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN LAHORE
The Taliban have maintained an intense fighting tempo this winter, a season when the violence in Afghanistan typically subsides... READ MORE›
ATTACKERS IN AFGHAN UNIFORMS KILL 2 NATO SOLDIERS
Officials had repeatedly warned that if Musa Qala fell the Taliban could tighten their grip on northern Helmand... READ MORE›
A TALIBAN PRIZE WON IN HOURS AFTER YEARS OF STRATEGY
Further, Kunduz Province is far from the only place in Afghanistan where the Taliban have employed similar tactics around provincial capitals this year... READ MORE›
BOKO HARAM LAUNCHES TWIN ATTACKS IN NIGER AND CAMEROON
But the development seemed to point less to a major expansion of the Islamic State than to a deepening of internal divisions within the Taliban... READ MORE›
TURKISH POLICE USE WATER CANNON ON PROTESTERS DECRYING RELIGION IN SCHOOLS
On Saturday, coalition officials announced that a precision strike resulted in the death of two individuals threatening the force in the Achin district of eastern Afghanistan... READ MORE›