KABUL, Afghanistan — The torture and mistreatment of people arrested for conflict-related activities remain widespread in Afghan prisons, a United Nations report released on Wednesday found, pointing to a continued…
KABUL, Afghanistan — Four days into his tenure as defense secretary, Ashton B. Carter arrived in Afghanistan on Saturday morning and opened up the possibility of slowing the withdrawal of…
KABUL, Afghanistan — Pakistan’s top military and intelligence officials have begun pressing the Taliban to sit down for face-to-face discussions with the Afghan government, potentially opening a path for direct…
KABUL, Afghanistan — Four Taliban suicide bombers disguised in Afghan police uniforms stormed a heavily fortified provincial Police Headquarters in central Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 20 officers and…
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — After an airstrike killed a prominent recruiter for the Islamic State in Afghanistan last week, the Afghan spy agency issued a triumphant news release announcing his death…
Last Sept. 28, a group of retired military officers demonstrated at Jantar Mantar, a historic site in New Delhi. “Though we are old veterans, we still have the strength to…
KABUL, Afghanistan — Gunfire erupted Saturday at a demonstration in Kabul where several hundred people had gathered to protest the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in the satirical…
KABUL, Afghanistan — The gunman who killed three American military contractors at Kabul’s international airport on Thursday was wearing an Afghan military uniform, the authorities said on Friday. The Taliban…
KABUL, Afghanistan — Three American military contractors were killed in a shooting on the military side of Kabul’s international airport on Thursday, military officials said. The precise circumstances of the…
WASHINGTON — U.S. defense officials say three American contractors were shot to death by a gunman in the Afghan capital of Kabul. One official said the shooting happened Thursday at…
KABUL, Jan 29 (Reuters) – Three American contractors were killed and a fourth was wounded by an Afghan solider at the military airport in the capital Kabul, an Afghan air…
“Pieces of flesh were plastered on the wall. There were children and women crying for help,” said one civil society activist who spoke with Reuters just after the suicide attack….