Logar and Takhar. A group called the National Mobilization Front, which resists Taliban rule in Afghanistan, claimed responsibility for the killing and said its fighters had targeted the Chinese ...

Taliban authorities ... escaped unharmed. An Afghanistan-based Islamic State affiliate, IS-Khorasan, claimed responsibility for the deadly overnight shooting in Takhar province, which sits on ...

A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans ... on the battlefield in Afghanistan's Nangarhar province and later taken to the U.S. A federal jury ...