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WAR WIDOWS IN AFGHANISTAN PAY A HEAVY PRICE FOR THEIR HUSBANDS' SACRIFICE
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›
REPORTER READS NEWS MINUTES AFTER ISIL ATTACKS STATION
Defiant Parwiz Sapy appeared calm and collected on Shamshad TV as he announced to viewers on Tuesday The attack has ended... READ MORE›
US AIRSTRIKES KILL SCORES OF CIVILIANS IN KUNDUZ PROVINCE, AFGHANS SAY
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›
MILITARY HELICOPTER CRASH KILLS US SERVICE MEMBER IN AFGHANISTAN
John W. Nicholson, commander of US and NATO forces in Afghanistan... READ MORE›
TILLERSON AND THE MISSING WALL CLOCK
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›
SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK KILLS 15 ARMY TRAINEES IN KABUL
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›
AFGHAN ARMY BASE DESTROYED BY TALIBAN SUICIDE BOMBERS
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›
WAVE OF TALIBAN SUICIDE ATTACKS ON AFGHAN FORCES KILLS AT LEAST 74
The deputy interior minister, Murad Ali Murad, said the attacks on Tuesday had been the biggest this year... READ MORE›
DEADLY ATTACK HITS AFGHAN POLICE TRAINING CENTRE
In June, Gardez' police headquarters was attacked by Taliban fighters, killing at least five officers... READ MORE›
AFGHANISTAN TALIBAN 'SUICIDE ATTACK' KILLS DOZENS
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›
AT LEAST EIGHT KILLED IN SUICIDE ATTACK ON PROVINCIAL AFGHAN POLICE HQ
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›
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›
MILITANTS ATTACK KABUL AIRPORT DURING MATTIS VISIT US STRIKE HITS CIVILIANS
Ghani said his government remains open to talks with the Taliban as well as a peace strategy involving Pakistan... READ MORE›
12 AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES KILLED IN KANDAHAR
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›
TALIBAN TARGETS U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENCE'S PLANE AT KABUL AIRPORT ATTACK, AMERICANS RESPOND WITH AIRSTRIKE
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›
TALIBAN TARGETS U.S. SECRETARY OF DEFENCE'S PLANE AT KABUL AIRPORT ATTACK, AMERICANS RESPOND WITH AIRSTRIKE
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›
INSURGENTS ATTACK KABUL AIRPORT DURING VISIT BY MATTIS; U.S. AIRSTRIKE HITS CIVILIANS
It is a classic example of what the Taliban are up to right now, Mattis said... READ MORE›
AFGHAN MILITANTS TRY TO SHOOT PLANE CARRYING US DEFENCE SECRETARY
Afghan militants have unsuccessfully attempted to shoot a plane carrying the US defence secretary, James Mattis, during an attack on Kabul airport... READ MORE›
US AIR STRIKE IN KABUL HITS CIVILIANS
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›
MATTIS NATO CHIEF RENEW COMMITMENT TO AFGHAN CONFLICT
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›
MATTIS MET WITH ROCKETS IN KABUL AHEAD OF AFGHAN TALKS
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›
SIGAR REPORT PUTS AFGHAN SECURITY DEFICIENCIES IN FOCUS
When the idea of creating the Afghan National Security Forces ANSF came up, it was a rapid building up of the army... READ MORE›
KABUL FORTIFICATION SIGNALS LONG U.S. STAY IN AFGHANISTAN
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›
AFGHANISTAN AID WORKER 'KILLED BY PATIENT'
A Spanish physiotherapist working at a Red Cross hospital in northern Afghanistan has been shot dead by a patient, the group says... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : International Security Assistance Force
AFGHAN CIVILIANS KILLED IN NATO AIR STRIKE IN KUNDUZ
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
140 Soldiers Killed in Taliban Attack on Afghan Base, Official Says... READ MORE›
US ADMITS AIR STRIKES 'LIKELY' KILLED AFGHAN CIVILIANS
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›
2 U.S. SOLDIERS KILLED BY AFGHAN ARMY SOLDIER IN INSIDER ATTACK
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›
AFGHAN FILES EXPOSE DEADLY SECRETS OF AUSTRALIA'S SPECIAL FORCES
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›
TWO AMERICANS KILLED IN ATTACK ON BASE IN AFGHANISTAN
A gunman reportedly wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire on foreign troops in Kabul... READ MORE›
SWEDEN TO DEPORT 106YO AFGHANI WOMAN, WORLD'S 'OLDEST REFUGEE' - REPORTS
Sweden rejects the asylum application of the world's oldest refugee... 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›
TALIBAN CAPTURES QALA-E-ZAL DISTRICT IN KUNDUZ PROVINCE
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›
AMERICAN SOLDIERS WOUNDED IN AFGHAN 'INSIDER ATTACK'
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›
AFGHANISTAN MOURNS AFTER DEADLY TALIBAN ATTACK ON BASE
President Ashraf Ghani calls for an investigation into the deadliest ever Taliban attack on an Afghan military base... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 12 AFGHAN SOLDIERS DIE IN 'INSIDER ATTACK'
In recent months, the Taliban have stepped up attacks across the country against Afghan security forces... READ MORE›
AT LEAST 140 DEAD AFTER TALIBAN ATTACK ON MAJOR AFGHAN ARMY BASE, OFFICIAL SAYS
KABUL -- The nerve center of Afghan and NATO combat activities in northern Afghanistan is a sprawling military base in Balkh Province... READ MORE›
TALIBAN BOMBER KILLS 4 AMERICANS AT KEY NATO BASE
Last December, a motorcycle-riding Taliban suicide bomber killed six US soldiers near Afghanistan's largest US military base... READ MORE›
HORRIFIC AFGHANISTAN BOMBING HIGHLIGHTS STALEMATE IN LONGEST U.S. WAR
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›
BLASTS, GUNFIRE ROCK KABUL, TALIBAN CLAIMS ATTACKS
Explosions and gunfire ring out at security compounds in Kabul, witnesses say, as Taliban claims responsibility... 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›
NATO TROOP INCREASE PLAN DRAWS CRITICISM IN AFGHANISTAN
NATO set to discuss sending more soldiers to Afghanistan, but many in Kabul fear such a move could prolong war... READ MORE›
DEADLY CAR BOMB HITS AFGHANISTAN'S LASHKAR GAH
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›
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›
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›
FOUR AMERICANS KILLED AND 16 WOUNDED IN AFGHANISTAN SUICIDE BLAST
Taliban claim responsibility for Afghanistan attack at Nato airfield in which Polish service member also wounded as US promises investigation... 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›
SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK IN HEART OF KABUL KILLS FIVE
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 FORCES CAPTURE TAYWARA DISTRICT FROM TALIBAN
Afghan security forces have recaptured a district in central Afghanistan that had fallen to the Taliban five days ago, officials said... READ MORE›
TALIBAN KILL MORE THAN 140 AFGHAN SOLDIERS AT ARMY BASE
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›
NATO CHIEF, MERKEL TO DISCUSS AFGHAN TROOP INCREASE
The meeting comes on the heels of a request from military chiefs for more troops to be sent to Afghanistan... READ MORE›
LIFE IN AFGHANISTAN UNDER THE MILITANTS
Taliban territory Life in Afghanistan under the militants... READ MORE›