Afghan leaders sent combat forces to capture a belligerent warlord, but many critics believed the deadly raid was a political stunt gone awry.

A Taliban infiltrator opened fire on soldiers as they were sleeping in a military base in Ghazni Province, officials said. At least 23 soldiers were killed while they were sleeping on Saturday in an insider attack in eastern Afghanistan, officials said, the latest episode of enemy infiltration that has raised concerns about a new local military force billed as the […]

Officials in Afghanistan confirmed Sunday the United States plans to withdraw thousands of troops from the country, insisting the move stemmed from a mutual understanding between the two allied nations.

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham met with leaders in Pakistan Monday to discuss “a broader” bilateral relationship, with particular focus on economic cooperation and peace-building efforts in Afghanistan, official said.

At least 22 people were wounded in a bomb attack in Mazar-i-Sharif, capital of Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Tuesday, a provincial health official confirmed.

Decades of deceit and mistakes have led us to the brink of a major foreign policy failure. The Trump administration is reportedly on the cusp of cutting a shameful deal with the Taliban that will provide the US military cover to withdrawal from Afghanistan. In order to help sell that deal, the US will disregard and obfuscate the Taliban’s generations-long, […]

The founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba group and alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks charged for ‘illegal funding’.

Taliban militants have set free eight employees of the election commission in the eastern Parwan province after more than two months of captivity, provincial governor’s spokesperson Wahida Shahkar said Tuesday.

The Taliban abducted as many as 45 elderly family members of a late Afghan government employee who were attending his funeral, officials said Tuesday.

The Taliban attacked Bagram Air Base using a suicide truck bomb and armed fighters today, just as the US and the Taliban have reopened negotiations that would allow the US to extricate itself from Afghanistan.