Afghanistan

Bowe Bergdahl release: Chuck Hagel defends prisoner deal

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the decision to strike a deal with the Taliban for the release of Sgt. Bowe…

10 years ago

Taliban video shows Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl release

A video showing the moment Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was handed over to US forces after five years in captivity in…

10 years ago

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could be prosecuted for abandoning his post before capture

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl could be prosecuted if he abandoned his post before his capture, a top-ranking military has said. General…

10 years ago

Bowe Bergdahl release: Republicans and Democrats clash over prisoner deal

Republicans and Democrats have clashed over the deal to swap five Guantanamo Bay detainees for a Taliban-held soldier, with Republicans…

10 years ago

Bowe Bergdahl release: US receives Qatar guarantees over Afghan prisoner deal

President Barack Obama has announced that he received security guarantees from Qatar over five Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were transferred…

10 years ago

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl released by Taliban after 5 years

US Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who has been held by the Taliban in Afghanistan for nearly five years, has been…

10 years ago

Barack Obama: US will keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan after 2014

President Barack Obama has announced that the US will keep 9,800 troops in Afghanistan after it concludes its combat mission…

10 years ago

Barack Obama makes surprise visit to Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan

President Barack Obama was cheered by soldiers during a surprise visit to Bagram Airfield outside Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. Barack Obama…

11 years ago

Afghanistan landslides kill at least 2,500 people in Badakhshan

Afghan rescuers have given up hope of finding any more survivors in a double landslide that is feared to have…

11 years ago

Afghan landslide kills at least 350 people in Badakhshan

According to the UN mission in Afghanistan, at least 350 people have been killed and more than 2,000 are missing…

11 years ago

Afghanistan: Five NATO troops die in helicopter crash

Five NATO soldiers have been killed in a helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led security mission ISAF has said.…

11 years ago

Afghanistan: Floods engulf northern villages

Fifty-eight people have been killed and hundreds of villagers left stranded in devastating flash floods in northern Afghanistan, officials say.…

11 years ago

Afghanistan: Three American doctors killed at CURE hospital in Kabul

Three Americans have been shot dead by a rogue cop at a children hospital in the Afghan capital, Kabul, US…

11 years ago

Afghanistan elections 2014: First democratic transfer of power amid tight security

Afghanistan is voting for a new president in what will be the nation's first ever transfer of power through the…

11 years ago

Two Associated Press journalists shot by Afghan police officer

Two foreign journalists have been shot by a police officer in Khost, eastern Afghanistan, officials say. One of the women…

11 years ago

Afghanistan election commission headquarters attacked by insurgents

The headquarters of the Afghan election commission in Kabul have been attacked by insurgents, a week before the presidential election,…

11 years ago

US may pull all troops out of Afghanistan by the end of the year

Barack Obama has warned Afghan President Hamid Karzai that the US may pull all of its troops out of his…

11 years ago

Afghanistan: Loya Jirga elders back US security pact

Afghan elders Loya Jirga has backed a security pact with the US allowing thousands of American troops to remain after…

11 years ago

Kabul suicide bomb attack kills at least 10 people

At least 10 Afghans have been killed and more than 20 injured in a suicide bomb attack in Kabul. The…

11 years ago

Afghanistan: At least 27 miners killed in Abkhorak coal mine collapse

At least 27 Afghan miners have been killed in a collapse after being trapped underground in the northern province of…

11 years ago

Afghanistan: Taliban insurgents attack US consulate in Herat

Afghan Taliban insurgents attacked the US consulate in the western city of Herat. Two Afghan police and one security guard…

11 years ago

Sgt. Robert Bales sentenced to life in prison without parole over Afghan massacre

Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, the US soldier who murdered 16 Afghan villagers last year, has been sentenced to life in…

11 years ago

NATO forces hand over control of security operations to Afghanistan

NATO has handed over security for the whole of Afghanistan for the first time since the Taliban were ousted in…

11 years ago

Aesha Mohammadzai: Afghan girl mutilated by her Taliban husband has a new nose and life

Aesha Mohammadzai has made international headlines in 2010 when she appeared on the now-iconic cover of Time magazine with a…

12 years ago

Ten Afghan children killed by NATO raid in Shigal district

Up to 12 Afghan civilians, 10 children and two women, have been killed in a NATO air strike in Shigal…

12 years ago