Thousands of Afghan elders, community leaders and politicians have gathered in the capital Kabul to decide whether the last 400 Taliban prisoners will be released as part of a peace agreement ...
Islamic State fighters have attacked a prison in eastern Afghanistan holding scores of the group’s members, killing at least 21 people. Another 43 people have been wounded in the assault, ...
KABUL, Afghanistan — An Islamic State group attack on a prison in eastern Afghanistan holding hundreds of its members raged on Monday after killing at least 21 people in fighting ...
A ceasefire between the Taliban and Afghan government appears to be holding for the third and final day, as hundreds of the armed group’s prisoners are released in a bid ...
Disagreements over a prisoner exchange and the violence have delayed peace talks between an Afghan government-mandated committee and the Taliban, as envisaged in an agreement signed between the United States ...
One of the Taliban attackers killed by Afghan teen Qamar Gul — who was later hailed on social media as a hero — was in fact her own husband, according ...
An Afghan teen has been hailed a hero after she used an AK-47 to fatally shoot two Taliban fighters — and wound several more — who dragged her parents from ...
When Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah Abdullah, his main political opponent, signed a power-sharing deal in May, it ended eight months of bitter post-election dispute. It also came with ...
WASHINGTON — A top US general in the Middle East has cast doubt on the Russia-Taliban bounty story, saying the intelligence is “worrisome” and he doesn’t believe it has lead ...
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. general for the Middle East said Tuesday that the intelligence suggesting that Russia may have paid Taliban militants to kill American troops in Afghanistan was ...
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