The current conflict is the most serious since the Taliban’s return in 2021. Yet it is also a logical extension of the ...

A regional meeting hosted by Iran on Afghanistan underscored calls for lifting sanctions and strengthening regional ...

The U.S. poured billions of dollars into rebuilding Afghanistan for two decades. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with John Sopko, the former Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.

The leading international authority on hunger crises and the U.N. food aid agency are warning that more than 17 million ...

Three years after the departure of the final US troops from Afghanistan, the situation in the country is bleak, with the Taliban tightening its grip as it introduces increasingly oppressive laws that ...

WASHINGTON -- President Trump hailed the U.S. military after it dropped the "mother of all bombs," America's largest non-nuclear weapon, in Afghanistan on Thursday. But just like last week's air ...

For the past few years, American troops in Afghanistan have used the winter months to make progress in counterinsurgency before the next fighting season. But with the end in sight for the U.S.

Afghanistan is in better shape than you think. But only U.S. forces can keep it safe from the Taliban In August, President Obama laid out the rationale for stepping up the fight in Afghanistan: “If ...

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Australia qualified for the semi-finals of the Champions Trophy for the first time in 16 years. Steve Smith's men secured their spot in the last-four stage of the Champions Trophy 2025 after their ...