Afghan police are needed to protect people and government institutions in remote districts across Afghanistan’s largest province, Helmand. Instead, they are being deployed to protect senior officials and lawmakers in the regional capital, Lashkar Gah.
In 2015, an extremist group calling itself Islamic State-Khorasan Province began recruiting new members -- including children -- in eastern Afghanistan. Two young brothers told VOA they spent two years training with the militants and preparing for suicide missions.
The United States has started shifting combat and intelligence-gathering air assets to Afghanistan as the battle against the Islamic State (IS) extremist group is winding down in Iraq and Syria, a top commander in Afghanistan says.
The United States has designated three Pakistani-based militants as "global terrorists," as Washington heaps pressure on Islamabad to crack down on militants.
The U.S. State Department's No. 2 official says President Donald Trump’s administration has so far seen no evidence that Pakistan has met its demands for a crackdown on militants operating in the country.
Tribal leaders in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province say hundreds of Pashtun tribespeople torched the office of a pro-government Taliban commander in the southern city of Dera Ismail Khan on February 6.
Unidentified gunmen have opened fire on two Chinese nationals in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, killing one and wounding the other.
A top U.S. commander says he has seen improvement in Afghan forces' capabilities in the fight against Taliban extremists in Helmand Province since the American military returned to the troubled region nine months ago.
Dozens of angry protesters have gathered outside the Pakistani Embassy in Kabul, chanting slogans such as "Death to Pakistan" and burning flags of the country.
The Afghan intelligence chief and interior minister have traveled to Islamabad to discuss cooperation on security issues with Pakistani officials following a series of deadly attacks in Afghanistan.
The U.S. military has said that "a human error in labeling" led to the accidental classification of previously available information about the war in Afghanistan.
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