KABUL, Afghanistan-- A Taliban assault on two adjacent checkpoints in northern Afghanistan killed at least 30 soldiers and police, officials said Wednesday, as life gradually returned to normal in ...

Coalition and Afghan special operations forces captured “three suspected insurgents” during a raid that targeted an al Qaeda associate who operates in the southeastern province of Ghazni. The combined ...

Ghazni City, the capital of a southeastern Afghan province with the same name, is the tenth provincial capital to fall to the Taliban in one week. It is strategically important terrain for the ...

In a visible attempt to pour cold water over Afghan hopes for peace, the Taliban have overrun a major city in southeastern Afghanistan. After four days of intense fighting, Afghan officials are ...

Although the Taliban overran a base in northern Afghanistan, and Afghan forces were battling insurgents for a fifth day in the eastern city of Ghazni on Tuesday, the U.S. military reported that the ...

The battle for the Afghan city of Ghazni is over. That an important provincial city was largely captured is more important in the minds of vulnerable Afghans than that the Taliban were driven out. Now ...

Two weeks after the Taliban bloodied Afghan security forces in a five-day battle for a key eastern city, Defense Secretary James Mattis insisted that President Trump’s strategy is drawing the ...

Ghazni province, Afghanistan, June 2007: Soldiers with Company D, 2nd Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division sweep for mines on a dirt road in Afghanistan’s Ghazni ...

Afghan officials say 15 civilians and 10 elite force members have been killed in Ghazni Province, as a days-long battle continued November 11. Fighting in Jaghori district -- an area inhabited mainly ...