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AIRSTRIKE HITS DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS HOSPITAL IN AFGHANISTAN

The military has been playing an increasingly active role in Afghanistan amid a Taliban resurgence, particularly in the northern province of Kunduz... 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›

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 BEHEADING OF A 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL PROMPTED HUGE PROTESTS IN AFGHANISTAN

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›

NIGHTCLUB SHOOTER'S DAD HOSTED ANTI-AMERICAN TALK SHOW

The name of the show refers to the Durand Line, the long-disputed border that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan... READ MORE›

AFGHAN CRISIS GROWS AS PUSH TO RETAKE KUNDUZ FALTERS

Officials and local elders in Kunduz said they had yet to see all but a few of the promised government reinforcements... READ MORE›

DRAMATIC TALIBAN HOSTAGE RESCUE EARNS NAVY SEAL THE MEDAL OF HONOR

Edward Carl Byers Jr. was born in Toledo, Ohio, and graduated from Otsego High School in the small town of Tontogany, Ohio, in 1997... READ MORE›

HOW TERRORISM IN THE WEST COMPARES TO TERRORISM EVERYWHERE ELSE

The Islamic State claimed responsibility for killing at least 130 people in a string of terrorist attacks Friday in Paris... READ MORE›

US GENERAL SAYS AFGHANS REQUESTED STRIKE

There are currently about 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan, and most are there to train and advise Afghan forces... 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›

TAKING HOLD IN KUNDUZ AFGHANISTAN NEW TALIBAN ECHOED THE OLD

Another resident, Ahmad Khalid, said that before fleeing Kunduz on Thursday, he saw Taliban fighters huddled around a car... 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›

BY EVENING, A HOSPITAL. BY MORNING, A WAR ZONE.

Even the Taliban didn't harm wounded Afghan security forces taken to the hospital, the guard said... READ MORE›

TALIBAN PRESENT GENTLER FACE BUT WIELD IRON FIST IN AFGHAN DISTRICT

But in most ways, the social restrictions that made the Taliban international pariahs during their reign have been resurrected in full in Baghran... 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›

EXCLUSIVE: IN TURF WAR WITH AFGHAN TALIBAN, ISLAMIC STATE LOYALISTS GAIN GROUND

IS supporters have proved ruthless, reportedly beheading several Taliban commanders, and IS' success in taking over swathes of Iraq and Syria underlines the risks to Afghanistan... 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›

OBAMA SAYS MULLAH MANSOUR TALIBAN LEADER WAS KILLED IN US STRIKE

The strike was the first such American drone attack in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, which is the de facto headquarters of the Afghan Taliban... READ MORE›

UK BOMB PLOT SUSPECT ABID NASEER FOUND GUILTY

Abid Naseer, 28, was found guilty by a New York jury of providing material support to al-Qaeda and conspiracy to use a destructive device... READ MORE›

AFGHAN TALIBAN KILL DOZENS AT KANDAHAR AIRPORT

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›

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›

US SOLDIERS 'TOLD TO IGNORE AFGHAN SOLDIERS WHO SEXUALLY ABUSE BOYS'

US soldiers say they're ordered to ignore Afghan soldiers who sexually abuse young boys... READ MORE›

VIDEO EMERGES OF GERMAN TRAIN ATTACKER PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE TO ISILA

A purported video of the teenage Afghan refugee who attacked passengers on a German train with an axe has emerged... READ MORE›

TOP U.S. GENERAL IN AFGHANISTAN

Force in Afghanistan can work with Afghan troops to repel the Taliban, which has been newly emboldened as the United States draws down its presence... READ MORE›

U.S. TROOPS DISPATCHED TO KUNDUZ TO HELP AFGHAN FORCES

Another Afghan official from Kunduz confirmed that coalition advisers are now also actively engaged in trying to trying to drive the Taliban from the city... READ MORE›

AID GROUP SEEKS INDEPENDENT PROBE INTO U.S. ATTACK ON AFGHAN HOSPITAL

Hashemi said most of the airstrikes that occurred in Kunduz after the Taliban overran it last week resulted from a specific request from the Afghanistan military... 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›

TEBBIT WANTS EU MIGRANTS TO BE ASSESSED BY WHO THEIR FAMILY FOUGHT FOR IN WORLD WAR II

Taliban attacks on Thursday and Friday on Camp Bastion, in southern Helmand Province, were symbolic as well as deadly... READ MORE›

19-YEAR-OLD ROKHSHANA WAS ACCUSED OF TRYING TO ELOPE WITH ANOTHER MAN BUT WAS ARRESTED, TRIED AND EXECUTED IN A TALIBAN-CONTROLLED AREA

The Taliban have a strong presence in Ghor, a desolate province in central Afghanistan... READ MORE›