With the pending withdrawal of U.S. forces and contractors from Afghanistan, the fledgling Afghan Air Force could have some turbulent days ahead.
Afghan officials say local commandos have released 41 people from a Taliban prison in the country’s western province of Herat.
Australia says it will close its embassy in Afghanistan this week, citing “an increasingly uncertain security environment” as international troops exit the war-torn country.
Afghan government forces clashed with Taliban militants in a provincial capital about 120 kilometers from Kabul, officials and witnesses said on May 24.
Afghan mixed martial arts champ Hussain Bakhsh Safari plans to auction some of his medals to raise cash for the families of students killed in attacks in Kabul and Logar Province.
Amnesty International has warned that 20 years of “hard-won” progress by Afghanistan’s women and girls are under threat as intra-Afghan peace talks are at an impasse and international troops prepare to withdraw from the war-torn country later this year.
A Pakistani soldier has been killed in a cross-border attack by Afghan militants in northwestern Pakistan, the Pakistani military said on May 23.
The death toll from bombings outside a high school in the Afghan capital has risen to 100 dead and 160 wounded, says the office of Sarwar Danish, Afghanistan's second vice president.
NATO says it will continue to train Afghan security forces outside the country after the international military withdrawal in September.
This week’s Gandhara Briefing looks at how Pakistan’s border fence is causing mounting problems for Pashtun tribes straddling the Durand Line, the revival of the Pakistani Taliban, and how a con artist and an Afghan princess clouded Afghan efforts to establish an alliance with Washington.
Taliban fighters have overrun another district in Afghanistan's central province of Maidan Wardak after heavy fighting with government forces.
Afghan officials say at least 16 people have been killed in separate attacks across the war-torn country.
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