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Pakistan’s newly appointed chief of defense forces has warned Afghanistan’s Taliban government to choose between maintaining ...

A struggling regime is caught between countervailing forces.

The final report this week from the special inspector general for Afghanistan identified $26 billion in waste, fraud, and ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities carried out a public execution at a stadium in the eastern city of ...

The lawyer said her client was detained during a routine immigration check-in.

The foreign minister in Afghanistan's Taliban-run government says that the actions of an Afghan national charged in the ...

The current conflict is the most serious since the Taliban’s return in 2021. Yet it is also a logical extension of the ...

The fighters led by the CIA found themselves spiraling into despair because of what they saw as bureaucratic neglect and abandonment by the U.S. government. Among their ranks was Rahmanullah Lakanwal, ...

They survived some of the Afghanistan War's most grueling and treacherous missions. But once they evacuated to the U.S., many ...

A police spokesperson claimed that at least 80,000 people attended a public execution in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Khost ...

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