President Donald Trump has granted the Pentagon authority to set troop levels in Afghanistan, a US official said Tuesday, a move that could lead to the deployment of thousands more soldiers. Speaking ...

Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) plans to introduce legislation calling for a “flexible timetable” for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Feingold, a critic of President Barack Obama’s decision to ...

Signaling that the U.S. military expects its mission to continue, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Sunday hailed the launch of the Afghan Army's new special operations corps, declaring that ...

President Trump’s top military advisers are proposing a 3,000 troop increase as the United States looks to confront a resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Under the new proposal, 3,000 troops ...

The United States intervened in Afghanistan in 2001 to rid Al-Qaeda of its sanctuaries following the 9/11 terror attacks. After Washington announced on Thursday that ...