I am writing about Staff Sargeant Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, who served in Afghanistan for a year ... Jabbar had an ISIS flag "strapped" to the back of his rented truck. He allegedly had IED's ...

Photos on his social-media accounts show a strapping soldier with a sprawling American flag-themed tattoo wrapped around his ... the member of the 10th Special Forces Group also served in Afghanistan, ...

In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group’s leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden spoke on Sunday with the families of three Americans detained in Afghanistan by its Taliban rulers since 2022, and emphasized his commitment to ...

Defence Minister Khawaja Asif said on Sunday that Afghanistan became a centre of recruitment and facilitation for IS terrorists in 2024 and asked the authorities in Kabul to take steps to prevent ...

A senior Taliban official has called for the reversal of the group's controversial ban on education for Afghan women and girls, describing the policy as unjust and un-Islamic. Sher Abbas Stanikzai ...

Afghan Taliban forces have targeted “several points” in neighbouring Pakistan, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Defense said, days after Pakistani aircraft carried out aerial bombardments inside ...

It is amazing that the State Department’s “one flag” directive could be controversial. Even more amazing is how we got here in the first place.

Two Afghan women and an 18-month-old boy warm themselves while waiting for alms along the Kabul-Pul-e-Alam highway in eastern Afghanistan [File: Kathy Gannon/AP] In a world where crises compete ...