(CNN) — Fifteen people were freed from a Taliban prison in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand on Sunday, the international coalition said in a statement. Afghan and coalition forces ...

Tensions between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Afghanistan’s Taliban regime sharply escalated in late February, further ...

Pakistan has declared open war on the Afghan Taliban, launching airstrikes on Kabul, Kandahar, and other key targets after ...

The airstrikes came hours after Afghan troops had attacked Pakistani border positions and follow months of worsening ...

Soldiers and police officers, many in tears, heaved bodies of their comrades from the trucks and laid them on sheets on the ground, side by side on their backs, until there were 20 of them. The dead ...

Pakistan has been the Afghan Taliban’s closest friend for decades. It was Islamabad that helped give birth to the Taliban in ...

With fighting expected to pick up this spring, Afghanistan's security is heavily dependent on elite forces like the commandos. NPR's Tom Bowman... With The U.S. In The Background, Afghan Commandos ...

The Afghan national who has been charged with shooting two members of the West Virginia National Guard this week was reportedly a member of the elite Afghan "Zero Unit" forces backed by the CIA - with ...

An Afghan ex-commando who served alongside the British Army fighting the Taliban was deported back to Afghanistan with his family while waiting for UK relocation under a government scheme. The man was ...

In Faryab province, 250 miles to the northwest, an isolated Afghan National Army base of 100 soldiers lost more than half its men in a Taliban assault that ended early Sunday. The hardest-hit area was ...

Aziz’s family was sitting down for an evening meal in their cramped Islamabad hotel room when there was a knock at the door. When his nine-year-old daughter opened it, she was faced with a group of ...