The military has been playing an increasingly active role in Afghanistan amid a Taliban resurgence, particularly in the northern province of Kunduz... READ MORE›
Military jets have conducted numerous airstrikes in Kunduz after the Taliban overwhelmed Afghan security forces on Monday... READ MORE›
General Sharif later left to visit Kabul, the Afghan capital, for a special visit, a Pakistani military spokesman said... READ MORE›
Officials and local elders in Kunduz said they had yet to see all but a few of the promised government reinforcements... READ MORE›
But the Taliban have stepped up attacks as most foreign combat troops prepare to leave Afghanistan next month... READ MORE›
All four of the United Nations provincial evacuations took place in northern Afghanistan... READ MORE›
After months of deliberation within his administration the US president said he would leave 5 500 US forces in Afghanistan beyond his departure from office in January 2017... READ MORE›
The Doctors Without Borders hospital is the only such facility in northeastern Afghanistan, providing free care to all based on medical needs... READ MORE›
There are currently about 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan, and most are there to train and advise Afghan forces... READ MORE›
Another resident, Ahmad Khalid, said that before fleeing Kunduz on Thursday, he saw Taliban fighters huddled around a car... READ MORE›
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›
Officials Obama to keep troops in Afghanistan past 2016... READ MORE›
Even the Taliban didn't harm wounded Afghan security forces taken to the hospital, the guard said... READ MORE›
In July, Doctors Without Borders issued a statement accusing Afghan troops of a violent armed intrusion at the heavily damaged Kunduz hospital... READ MORE›
A US aircraft attacked a Medecins Sans Frontieres MSF clinic in the Afghan city of Kunduz because of human error, a US military inquiry says... READ MORE›
The Taliban have stepped up attacks in Afghanistan as most foreign combat troops prepare to leave the country next month... READ MORE›
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›
The medical charity Doctors Without Borders has withdrawn from the northern Afghan city of Kunduz after 19 people were killed in an airstrike that destroyed its hospital... 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›
Taliban kill three in kabul blast targeting army bus... READ MORE›
Hungry and thirsty residents of Kunduz began to emerge from their homes in the areas where the security forces had taken control... READ MORE›
The Afghan Local Police were established by American commanders as a low-cost auxiliary force trained by the United States Special Forces... READ MORE›
Horia Mosadiq, Afghanistan researcher, said This bombing of the MSF hospital in Kunduz marks a dark day for humanitarianism... READ MORE›
Officials had repeatedly warned that if Musa Qala fell the Taliban could tighten their grip on northern Helmand... READ MORE›
The bombs hit and then we heard the plane circle round, said Heman Nagarathnam, MSF's head of programmes in northern Afghanistan... READ MORE›
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›
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›
Taliban attacks on Thursday and Friday on Camp Bastion, in southern Helmand Province, were symbolic as well as deadly... READ MORE›
Taliban insurgents have launched complex attacks on government targets in the capital in the past... READ MORE›
The insurgents in Musa Qala are entirely Taliban forces... READ MORE›
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