President Barack Obama prioritized the conflict in Afghanistan soon after taking office, but he made it clear that the U.S. would scale down its ambitions there. The objective of the mission would be ...

While the White House tries to dissipate confusion about troop withdrawals, stressing that July 2011 is merely the start of a gradual process, many questions linger about President Obama's Afghanistan ...

American officials will waste billions of dollars on extra facilities being built with U.S. tax money for Afghanistan’s military unless they scale the size and number of the facilities to match actual ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan authorities on Tuesday collected 43 bodies from a government compound in the capital Kabul that was targeted by a suicide bomber and extremists armed with assault rifles on ...

The future of Afghanistan begins at the end of next year, after U.S. combat troops depart and Afghan forces take over for keeps. After spending more than a half-trillion dollars, it’s difficult ...

At the time of the explosion, Taliban officials were holding a security meeting inside the building, indicating that the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Oct 24 (UNHCR) - As temperatures drop in Afghanistan, returnees have intensified efforts to rebuild their homes under a UNHCR-funded initiative that has so far provided shelter to ...

This article first appeared on our partner site, Independent Persian In the sweltering heat of Kabul, a group of young women, who have been barred from higher education for the past three years, ...

QUANTICO, Virginia (Reuters) - When U.S. forces went in to clear the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in February, the hope was that local Afghan government could step in fast, but that has proved tough ...