Taliban officials admit that at least half of the stockpile is now “unaccounted for.” Many of those weapons ended up with ...

The U.S. invaded Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9/11 attacks a month earlier. The U.S. presence in Afghanistan then continued under four presidents.

• Washington bought over 427,000 weapons, 162 aircraft for Afghan forces; all now under Taliban control WASHINGTON: A report by a US watchdog has confirmed that billions of dollars’ worth of ...

Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif on Wednesday threatened the Afghan Taliban and said that Islamabad would not even need a fraction of its arsenal to "completely obliterate" them and drive them ...

The ongoing power struggle between the Kandahari and Kabuli factions of the Taliban has garnered significant attention in post-Soviet media spaces. This internal conflict, which could potentially lead ...

Taliban officials have scored a series of diplomatic victories this year that have started a subtle shift toward normalizing their government. By Christina Goldbaum Reporting from Kabul, Afghanistan ...

KAMRA, Pakistan -- Heavily armed Taliban fighters blasted their way into a Pakistani air force base with possible links to the country's nuclear program in an assault that took two hours of fighting ...

CHAMAN, Pakistan, Nov. 26 -- Aided by U.S. airstrikes and Special Forces attacks, Pashtun tribal militias pushed closer to Kandahar today while another group of tribal leaders negotiated to take ...

When asked last year about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal, Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Admiral Mike Mullen didn’t hesitate: “I’m very comfortable that the nuclear weapons in Pakistan ...