The Taliban told U.S. President Donald Trump in an open letter on Tuesday that the military situation in Afghanistan was "far worse than you realize" and sending in more troops would be self-destructive. A senior Taliban official told Reuters the rare decision to address Trump ...
In a rebuke of President Donald Trump, Sen. John McCain declared Thursday that "America is adrift in Afghanistan" as he promoted a war strategy that would expand the U.S. counterterrorism effort and provide greater support to Afghan security forces. McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed ...
The Taliban released 235 hostages from a remote village in northern Afghanistan where it along with Islamic State insurgents allegedly massacred around 50 civilians, officials said Tuesday. "This evening 235 people including women and children were released from Mirzawalang as a result of mediation by ...
After 16 years of bloody fighting, there is no indication that Washington has a better sense of how to address the festering conflict in Afghanistan.
The Taliban — which banned poppy cultivation when it ruled Afghanistan — now appears to wield significant control over the war-torn country's heroin production line, providing insurgents with billions of dollars, officials said. In 2016 Afghanistan, which produces 80 percent of the world's opium, made ...
The Taliban rejected reports they used foreign fighters and cooperated with Islamic State in fighting at a remote village in northern Afghanistan over the weekend where officials said dozens of local police and civilians were killed. The Taliban, fighting to install sharia in Afghanistan and ...
The Taliban and Islamic State (IS) group jointly massacred dozens of civilians in an Afghan village, officials said Monday, highlighting rare cooperation between the insurgents that could increase the strain on Afghanistan's beleaguered security forces. The fighters killed more than 50 men, women and children ...
President Donald Trump has become increasingly frustrated by the situation in Afghanistan and has recently floated a change in command as he struggles to settle on a new strategy after years of war. NBC News first reported Wednesday that Trump fumed during a meeting last ...
A suicide bombing attack on a NATO convoy near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday left two U.S. service members dead, a Pentagon spokesman said. Navy Capt. Jeff Davis confirmed the deaths. There was no information on the number of troops wounded. The Taliban quickly took ...
A U.S. government watchdog has filed a secret report to Congress into allegations of child sex abuse by Afghan security forces — and the extent to which America holds them accountable. According to the office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), which ...
A suicide bomber stormed into the largest Shiite Muslim mosque in Afghanistan's Herat province Tuesday night opening fire on worshippers before blowing himself up, killing at least 20 and wounding dozens more, said the provincial governor's spokesman, Jalani Farhad. However, Mehdi Hadid, a lawmaker from ...
Frustration is mounting among leading foreign policy officials in U.S. President Donald Trump's administration as they chafe at some policy and bureaucratic defeats and complain they lack independence to do their jobs, officials say. The clash between internationalists urging the traditional U.S. leadership role in ...
