(CNN) — Fifteen people were freed from a Taliban prison in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand on Sunday, the international coalition said in a statement. Afghan and coalition forces conducted the nighttime raid in Now Zad village, said US Navy Capt

Soldiers and police officers, many in tears, heaved bodies of their comrades from the trucks and laid them on sheets on the ground, side by side on their backs, until there were 20 of them. The dead all wore the desert-brown boots of Afghanistan’s finest ...

Afghan commandos are being airdropped into remote areas near the Pakistan border to aid earthquake rescue efforts. Taliban authorities in Afghanistan say the 6.0-magnitude quake on August 31 and subsequent tremors killed over 1,400 people, injured ...

Pakistan’s deportation campaign continues to stoke fear among Afghans mired in the stalled United States. Refugee Admissions Program, according to multiple sources who spoke with me on condition of anonymity. Sources who are shepherding Afghan allies in ...

An Afghan ex-commando who served alongside the British Army fighting the Taliban was deported back to Afghanistan with his family while waiting for UK relocation under a government scheme. The man was part of an elite Afghan special forces unit known as ...

Aziz’s family was sitting down for an evening meal in their cramped Islamabad hotel room when there was a knock at the door. When his nine-year-old daughter opened it, she was faced with a group of uniformed Pakistani police officers, clad in helmets and ...

KABUL/MAZAR DARA, Afghanistan (Reuters) -Afghanistan airdropped commandos on Wednesday to pull survivors from the rubble in areas ravaged by earthquakes that have killed more than 1,400 this week, as a U.N. agency warned that food aid for victims would run ...