The United States and NATO officially began withdrawing their last troops from Afghanistan on May 1, leaving the war-torn country to an uncertain future amid raging violence in the absence of a peace deal.
Afghans have received enormous economic benefits from the international military presence since it arrived in 2001. But with foreign forces departing by September, many expect to feel the financial bite.
A huge car-bomb explosion in Afghanistan's eastern province of Logar killed at least 26 people on April 30, officials said.
Anthropologist Tobias Marschall spent 11 months living among nomadic Pamir Kyrgyz herders in the isolated mountain valleys of northeastern Afghanistan between 2015 and 2019.
Nomadic Pamir Kyrgyz shepherds face a life-altering choice: Should they stay in Afghanistan’s isolated and poverty-stricken northeastern panhandle? Or should they accept an invitation to resettle in Kyrgyzstan?
U.S. and NATO troops have started to withdraw from Afghanistan, the White House and several alliance officials said on April 29, amid a reported surge in Taliban attacks.
On May 2, 2011, a night raid by elite U.S. commandos resulted in the death of the world’s most wanted man.
RFE/RL correspondent Mohammad Ilyas Dayee was known for his intrepid reporting in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. In November 2020, he was killed by a bomb attached to his car. It was just one of many targeted attacks in the past year that have silenced vital voices in Afghanistan's embattled media.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has discussed with Pakistan’s army chief the regional security situation and the planned withdrawal of all foreign troops from Afghanistan later this year.
U.S. President Joe Biden has reiterated his intention to end the U.S. war presence in Afghanistan. In a presidential address to Congress marking his first 100 days in office, Biden said on April 28: "After 20 years of valor and sacrifice, it is time to bring those troops home."
President Joe Biden said it’s time to end the "forever war" in Afghanistan as he defended his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from the country by September.
The head of the Afghanistan National Directorate of Security (NDS) says there are 408 members of the Islamic State (IS) from 14 countries in Afghan government prisons.
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