Evening started to fall at Shindand Airbase, Afghanistan, one of the most heavily trafficked airfields throughout Operation Enduring Freedom, when Sgt. 1st Class Glenn Myers heard the moan of a siren.

Czech President Petr Pavel granted pardons on Wednesday to four members of the country's special forces, who had been facing prosecution for alleged crimes related to the death of a detained ...

When you fly into Shindand airfield you have to look hard to spot any sign of activity, let alone that it is the US military's main base in western Afghanistan. This huge Soviet-built base has been ...

Access to safe drinking water essential for life and health, yet it is estimated that 33 million people in Afghanistan face severe water shortage. This World Water Day, marked on 22 March, we look at ...

Army Staff Sgt. Shane Koele, 25, died Wednesday, a day after he was injured when a land mine exploded near the Humvee he was riding in at Shindand, Afghanistan, the Department of Defense reported.

In 2024, communities in Afghanistan continued to face significant challenges to access basic necessities such as healthcare, food and clean water. The humanitarian situation in the country remains ...

Women and girls wait in a corridor in the district hospital of Shindand, a district among those most affected by the two decades of war, located in the province of Herat, Western Afghanistan, May ...

Today marks the third anniversary of the last day of U.S. presence in Afghanistan, August 30, 2021, and no matter how much the White House and the media shy away from the really b ...

HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters sit on alert as the sun sets over the mountains west of Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021. (Capt. Paul Amengual/Air Force) There weren’t supposed to be gunshots ...

Osmon trained Qara during a flight screening program at Shindand Air Base in Afghanistan for about a year in 2012 and then again a few years later in Kabul. He also flew with Qara when he advanced ...

SHINDAND, Afghanistan — In the U.S.-built district hospital of Shindand in western Afghanistan, the surge in patients took doctors by surprise. As their wards filled up in recent months, they ...

Czech special operators were escorting a civilian truck onto Shindand Air Base when their rear vehicle suddenly took gunfire from a nearby compound owned by Afghanistan’s 4th Special Operations ...