Here’s a look at the Taliban, a Sunni Islamist organization operating primarily in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Facts The group’s aim is to impose its interpretation of Islamic law on Afghanistan and ...

Last week, 16 people were killed and two others wounded in various incidents across Afghanistan. Local officials say one ...

Some Australian soldiers used foreign rules of engagement in Afghanistan that may have resulted in alleged war crimes – a failing not investigated by the Brereton inquiry.

Under bluebird skies over the MLK holiday weekend, a uniformed instructor followed a skier down a trail at Stevens Pass.

But Hayden kept her cool throughout the roughly five months she spent in Kandahar ... a former Australian special forces soldier eager to help a fellow service member, offered up an adage from ...

Canadian troops arrive at Kandahar airfield on March 8 ... In 2008, Claude Lepage, a member of Canadian special forces unit Joint Task Force 2 (JTF2), reported to the military ombudsperson’s office ...

Foreign aid often is connected to wars overseas. The top five recipients of U.S. aid (including both USAID and non-USAID ...

For example, opium cultivation increased by 119 percent in the Kandahar ... administration's Special Group (Counter-Insurgency) quickly tasked USAID "to coordinate economic assistance programs ...

It included top Taliban commanders of its special forces, like Badri 313 ... On September 19, 2023, the Fatwa planning meeting was held in Kandahar at the Taliban Military Commission and suicide ...

As the world’s focus has shifted to other regions and conflicts — Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war — the ...

A suicide bomber killed five people including Taliban security forces on Tuesday in an explosion ... bomb outside a bank in the southern city of Kandahar, in an attack claimed by the regional ...