The recent escape of a former Taliban spokesman while in detention by the Pakistani intelligence services has raised new questions about Islamabad’s covert ties with the militants.
Two U.S. soldiers have been killed and six wounded in a firefight in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar Province, with the U.S. military saying initial reports indicate an attack was carried out by a man in an Afghan National Army (ANA) uniform.
The return to their homeland of thousands of fighters from the Fatemiyoun Brigade, a pro-Iranian Afghan proxy group that fought in Syria, has prompted fears.
An Afghan warlord who has supposedly been on the run from authorities since deadly December clashes between his fighters and government troops, seems to be living a normal, very open life.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has demanded "demonstrable evidence" from the Taliban that it will lower the violence level in Afghanistan before signing a deal that would lead to peace talks and a withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country.
Pakistan closed a key border crossing with Afghanistan after two mortar shells landed on Pakistani territory from across the border, officials say.
Helicopter-borne U.S. forces have recovered the remains of two personnel killed when a military communications aircraft went down in a Taliban-controlled area of Afghanistan's Ghazni Province, the Pentagon has confirmed.
Footage from RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan -- taken 3 1/2 hours after the plane went down in Ghazni Province on January 27 -- showed smoldering wreckage with sections of the Bombardier E-11A aircraft still intact. The U.S.-led NATO mission in Afghanistan would not offer details other than saying t
An American military aircraft crashed in eastern Afghanistan on January 27, the U.S. military and the NATO-led force in the country said, adding that there were no indications so far it had been brought down by enemy fire.
Factions within the Afghan government and Washington differ over whether they are willing to accept a reduction in violence or expect a complete cease-fire in the wake of an agreement between the United States and the Taliban.
Ismail Qaani, the new commander of the Quds Force of Iran's powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), has ties with Afghanistan going back to the 1980s.
Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded when the army vehicle they were traveling in struck a roadside bomb in Afghanistan, the NATO press office said in a statement.
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