Texas Rep. Michael McCaul warned on Newsmax that according to information he received in a U.S. intelligence briefing, the Taliban are resurging in Afghanistan.
For all the apparent angst being displayed by Pakistan’s ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaaf (PTI) regarding...
But America is refusing to try | Leaders
On the 18th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan, President Donald Trump said on Twitter, “… it is time for us to get out of these ridiculous Endless Wars, many of them tribal, and bring our soldiers home.” He added, “WE WILL FIGHT WHERE IT IS TO OUR BENEFIT, AND ONLY FIGHT TO WIN.” But rather than referring to the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Trump was actually talking about the
Add in decades of interest payments and care for wounded vets and the total bill could top $6.5 trillion.
Violence in Afghanistan has spiked recently, writes Borzou Daragahi, with civilians paying a heavy price
Four of the strikes were carried out on Wednesday and Thursday, including some in Kandahar, one official said.
Taliban insurgents tightened their grip on Afghanistan on Friday, wresting control of the second- and third-biggest cities as Western embassies prepared to send in troops to help evacuate staff from
The U.S. intelligence apparatus warned of the collapse of the Afghan military and government at the hands of a resurgent Taliban over the summer.
The former Secretary of State has changed his position on the Taliban as the peace deal he once touted has led to a sweeping victory by the militant group.
Malala Yousafzai, who survived a Taliban assassination attempt following her vocal criticism of the groups efforts to deprive women and girls of the right to receive an education, issued a call to action after the militants seized control of Afghanistan this past week.
Attack, blamed on Isis, shows militants still capable of striking at heart of Afghan capital
Instead of peace through strength, Joe Biden has chaos through incompetence.
Many Afghans fear a potential economic collapse as the Taliban celebrates the withdrawal of the last US troops.
Photojournalist Stefanie Glinski reports from Kabul on the events of the past four weeks and the capital’s new rulers
With thousands of Afghans struggling to flee the country, the capture of Kabul by the Taliban brings alarm about the implications of sharia law, including for girls' education.
Groups have urged White House to implement 10-point plan
Afghans who settled in Houston have watched helplessly from the U.S. or while trapped in...
Newly in power, the Taliban is making big promises on women’s rights. But these Afghan women aren’t counting on it.
At least four planes chartered to evacuate people seeking to escape the Taliban in Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said.
Pentagon officials say many of the vehicles and aircraft left at the airport have been rendered inoperable.
Concerns come as Albania and Kosovo accept US request to temporarily host political refugees
As the US withdraws its troops in Afghanistan, what can stop a resurgent Taliban from using violence to seize power? An expert weighs in.
Pakistan coaches Taliban on winning international recognition
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So far, the Talibans leadership has presented a moderate face, promising amnesty to government forces who lay down their arms. Yet there are growing reports of detentions, disappearances, and even execution.
ISTANBUL When Taliban troops seized control of the Afghan capital two weeks ago, the invading units made a beeline for two critical targets: the headquarters of the National Security Directorate and the Ministry of Communications.
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Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani announced a rare and temporary ceasefire with the Taliban.
The US and the Taliban have held eight previous rounds of negotiations in the past year on issues including a US troop withdrawal, a cease-fire and Taliban guarantees that Afghanistan will not be a launch pad for global terror attacks.
The Taliban vowed to continue fighting in Afghanistan, saying U.S. President Donald Trump would "regret" ending peace negotiations.
U.S. peace talks with the Taliban are now "dead," President Donald Trump declared Monday, two days after he abruptly canceled a secret meeting he had arranged with Taliban and Afghan leaders aimed at ending America's longest war.
BRUSSELS (AP) — The Afghan government's unilateral halt to attacks on the Taliban is giving U.S. counterterrorism forces a chance to intensify combat
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The Trump administration has determined that after nearly a trillion dollars spent and thousands of Americans killed and injured in the Afghanistan war, “reconciliation” between Kabul and Taliban terrorists presents the best way to end the nearly 17-year-old conflict, a top U.S. general said Wednesday.
Chief Executive of Afghanistan Abdullah Abdullah told UN that the nation has made an “unprecedented” offer of talks to the Taliban.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Monday reassured his people their rights would not be compromised after the US envoy to Afghanistan reported significant progress in Taliban peace talks.
Ashraf Ghani proposes a ceasefire and prisoner release in hopes of reaching a peace agreement with the armed group.
One negotiator said Taliban delegations had been joined by "never more than five" Americans in hotel suites where "tea and cookies" were served.
The United States and the Taliban have sketched the outlines for an eventual peace accord to end 17 years of war in Afghanistan, a U.S. special envoy said on Monday, but there was no sign the insurgent group had accepted key U.S. demands.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani is calling on the Taliban to take part in peace talks to "save the country."
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that Washington is hopeful a peace agreement to bring an end to the 17-year war in Afghanistan can be reached before Sept. 1. Pompeo, in a brief visit to Afghanistan, spoke just days before the start of a fresh round of talks between Washington's
Many in Afghanistan are hopeful about the talks, despite the Taliban announcement of a spring offensive.
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani during an unannounced visit to Kabul on Friday to discuss prospects for peace talks with the Taliban and the country's deteriorating security situation ahead of upcoming elections.
The United States and the Taliban have sketched the outlines for an eventual peace accord to end 17 years of war in Afghanistan, a U.S. special envoy said on Monday, but there was no sign the insurgent group had accepted key U.S. demands.
The American service member killed in a car bomb attack was the fourth killed in the past two weeks in Afghanistan.
A United States envoy and the Taliban resumed negotiations Thursday on ending America's longest war after earlier signaling they were close to a deal. A Taliban member familiar with, but not part of, the talks that resumed in Qatar said U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad also met one-on-one Wednesday with
Saturday night's devastating attack on a wedding in Afghanistan's capital comes amid huge uncertainty about the country's future.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani during an unannounced visit to Kabul on Tuesday to discuss ongoing peace talks with the Taliban and the security situation ahead of Afghan presidential polls in September.
U.S. special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is returning to Washington to discuss the U.S.-Taliban Afghanistan peace deal negotiations.
The U.S.-NATO coalition is expected to adhere to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's unilateral Ramadan truce with the Taliban, announced on Thursday without the backing of the terrorist group.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Thursday announced a weeklong cease-fire with the Taliban to coincide with the holiday marking the end of Ramadan next week.
As the Taliban gains power and territory, U.S. officials stay their muddled course.
Surprise ceasefire comes after the government told security forces to halt operations against the Taliban until June 20.
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Kathy Gannon has reported on Afghanistan for the AP for the past 35 years, during an extraordinary series of events and regime changes that have rocked the world
Curbing the Taliban's multimillion dollar opium poppy business was a major goal of a military operation to seize this former insurgent stronghold. But Marines are now wary of destroying the crops.
The U.S. Air Force is sending 300 airmen home from Iraq and Afghanistan to help their families cope with emergencies on a hurricane-devastated airbase in Biloxi, Miss.
ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s Taliban said Sunday they had suspended “mediation” with the United States to exchange capti...
Protections for the unvaccinated and bans on critical race theory turn civil rights on its head.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Afghan President Hamid Karzai met at an Afghan air base on Sunday, aiming to fix a relationship that has grown bitter as the Afghan war grows deadlier and more unpopular.
Russia wants to know more about the scale and scope of NATO's post-2014 mission in Afghanistan before deciding whether to keep cooperating with the Western alliance, an envoy for President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
More than 150 friendly forces made it out that day because of Staff Sgt. Alaxey Germanovich's actions, the Air Force said.
Police scoured one of Kabul's landmark hotels room-by-room on Wednesday after an overnight assault by suicide bombers killed at least 10 people.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday welcomed remarks from the Obama administration saying that Taliban insurgents were not America's enemies.
The son of murdered former president Burhanuddin Rabbani is appointed to replace him as Afghanistan's lead peace negotiator with the Taliban.
With patron support waning and the Islamic State expanding, the Taliban may transform into a militant political group in order to survive.
2006-11-27 04:00:00 PDT Kabul, Afghanistan -- A suicide bomber walked into a packed restaurant in southeastern Afghanistan and set off his explosives Sunday morning, killing 15 other people and wounding 25, Afghan officials said. Twenty-four hours later, a suicide bomber killed two NATO soldiers in an attack on an alliance convoy in the southern city of Kandahar, a NATO spokesman said. The suicide strike -- the deadliest since 16 people were killed in a Sept. 8 suicide car bombing in Kabul --
Concerns growing over violence in central highland province after two bombs killed nine police officers earlier this month
Adviser says Obama is willing to consider all options on troop levels as he meets with Afghan president in Washington
Afghans are choosing a new president and provincial councils in the nation’s first democratic transfer of power.
This war is still winnable
An investigation has found that a nighttime NATO air attack last month killed 31 civilians in southern Afghanistan.
Coalition forces killed between 15 and 20 militants in fighting over the weekend in the southern Afghan province of Helmand
KABUL/DOHAR – Police have removed a flagpole from the Taliban’s office in Qatar, an official said on Sunday, expunging the last visible sign of...
KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar votes in parliamentary elections on Saturday, a week after 32 of the country's 34 provinces went to
The new leader of the Taliban called for an end to foreign forces' "occupation" of Afghanistan as a preliminary step to a settlement based on Islamic law that he said would bring unity to a country riven by decades of war.
An internal United Nations report details escalating Taliban violations of human rightsand little U.N. leverage.
Welcome to democracy, Afghan-style.
Welcome to democracy, Afghan-style.
KABUL, Afghanistan U.S. troops and their Western allies have departed the U.S. military base that coordinated the sprawling war in Afghanistan, officials said Friday, effectively ending major U.S. military...
The Taliban say they don't want to monopolize power, but they insist there won't be peace in Afghanistan until there is a new negotiated government in Kabul and President Ashraf Ghani is removed.
In the wake of a governor’s assassination, Canadian Brig.-Gen. Jon Vance says Afghan government presence was able to keep turmoil from erupting — a cl...
What might be the final major US offensive of the Afghanistan war has begun, according to the war's day-to-day commander. Its purpose is a bit harder to grasp. "In some areas there in the east, south of Kabul, we needed to insert greater combat power, and we've needed to do that for quite some time," Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti told reporters on Monday.
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An independent watchdog group says it has "serious concerns about the quality" of the Afghan parliamentary elections last weekend, citing "electoral violations and irregularities" and security problems that forced polling centers to close.
By Asif Shahzad
Taliban insurgents on Monday gave Afghan mobile phone operators three days to shut down their networks at night or face attack, as the rebels said international forces used the mobile phones to track them down.
Heavy flooding from seasonal rains in eastern Afghanistan and neighboring parts of Pakistan left dozens of people dead overnight, according to local officials on Sunday.
Fentanyl, which is 80 to 100 times stronger than morphine, is the primary driver of drug overdose deaths in the United States.
Twin tragedies on opposite sides of the world are piling misery on people who have seen far more than their share
"The execution of the U.S. withdrawal was clearly and fatally flawed," Menendez said.
Conducting U.S. foreign policy through the military didn’t work in Afghanistan, and won’t likely work anyplace else.
US president holds closed-door meeting with senior officials to consider strategy.
International Criminal Court judges said Tuesday that the court's prosecutor can appeal against the rejection of her request to open an investigation into crimes linked to the long-running conflict in Afghanistan.
As Taliban fighters entered Kabul on the evening of August 15, executives at Afghanistan's biggest independent TV...
A strong earthquake centered in the towering Hindu Kush mountains shook a wide area of eastern Afghanistan and Pakistan early today, swaying buildings in the Afghan and Pakistani capitals. Buildings shook in the Pakistani cities of Peshawar and the capital Islamabad, and the quake was felt as far east as Lahore near the Indian border, Pakistani television stations reported.
COVID infection rates have surged in Afghanistan by 2,400% over the past month, according to the International Federation of Red Cross.
The United States believes that some members of Pakistan's spy service provided support for the deadly bombing last month of India's Embassy in Afghanistan, a U.S. counterterrorism official told CNN Friday.
The trafficking and sexual exploitation of children in Afghanistan is a growing concern, Canada's Foreign Affairs Department was told in a confidential human-rights report prepared by senior officials.
A Texas congressman said a hostage crisis is developing in Afghanistan as the Taliban plays hardball with the Biden administration.
Jumping out of the fire seems a lot easier and more peaceful. Except for those Gold Star families.
The United Nations sought to reassure the Afghan people yet again Friday that it won’t abandon them, though it left in question how it was going deliver desperately needed aid following the Taliban ban on Afghan women working for the world organization. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called the ban an unacceptable violation of the Afghan women's human rights. The U.N. announced on April 11 that the head of its political mission in Afghanistan, Roza Otunbayeva, would ca
NBC News spoke to teens in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to show 9/11's impact through their eyes.
PARIS, Dec. 6 -- Mountainous and isolated, caught for centuries between competing empires along one of the world's great trading routes, Afghanistan has always been a place of legends. Twenty-eight years ago, another one was born.
Six others wounded in bombings that struck neighbourhood largely populated by members of the ethnic Hazara minority.
Retired General Stanley McChrystal, who led coalition forces in Afghanistan from 2009 to 2010, called the Afghanistan War a "failure" in a new interview with Yahoo Finance.
LONDON -Britain will not accept any more people for flights
Osama bin Laden’s terrorist group warned the United States again yesterday that it will retaliate if attacked, declaring, “Wherever there are...
Pakistan's army on Thursday threw its support behind the latest U.S. efforts for a political settlement with the Afghan Taliban to end a 17-year-old war, urging Washington to leave Kabul as a friend of the region rather than a "failure".
The Australian government is sending troops back to Afghanistan some two-and-a-half years after they were withdrawn. An elite force of 150 Special Air Service (SAS) personnel and Army commandos will be dispatched in September for a 12-month tour, following the deployment of 450 Australian troops to southern Iraq in February. An additional 200-strong engineering unit is likely to be sent to Afghanistan in April 2006.
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