The American Combat Outpost, Keating, better known as COP Keating, was a US military outpost in the Nurestan Province in ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) – A shadowy, Pakistan-based militant faction is on the rise within the Taliban after its leader was appointed deputy and played a key role in unifying the fractured insurgency. The ...

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While America’s longest war – the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan – ended when American forces hastily fled the country in August 2021, memories from two decades of bloody battles are still lodged ...

An offensive is under way in southern Afghanistan to root out Taliban fighters from villages outside Kandahar. That's the city that's the birthplace of the Taliban movement. Afghan government troops ...

Afghan army on high alert after increased activity by Taliban militants. LONDON, June 17, 2008 — -- Afghanistan's army chief, Gen. Bismillah Khan, is in Kandahar preparing his men for a ...

ABC News' Mike and Carlos Boettcher embedded with 101st Airborne Division. May 24, 2014— -- The Kunar province was home to some of the most brutal fighting in the Afghanistan War, and for the ...

In this episode, we step into the shadowy early days of the war on terror to uncover Operation Trent - a lesser-known but ...

The spectacle of fierce fighting around a dusty Afghan town, with well-armed Western troops, backed by helicopters and Afghan allies, bearing down on hundreds of dug-in Taliban fighters, would seem to ...

Australia is grappling with trying to investigate veterans accused of misconduct during the long war in Afghanistan, while the price tag for litigation keeps rising. The Australian government has ...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Omar Gul was on duty at a remote police checkpoint in Helmand's restive district of Sangin when the station came under fire. It was a warm night in ...

The road to success for President Obama’s Afghanistan strategy runs through India, goes an increasingly familiar refrain. That’s because reversing the Taliban’s momentum requires getting rid of the ...