Pentagon officials said Sunday the airstrikes that began just after nightfall in Afghanistan could continue for some time as the United States and Britain seek to soften Taliban air defenses and ...

McChrystal took Karzai and some of his security chiefs to Kandahar, considered the heartland of Taliban country. With McChrystal in the front row, Karzai delivered a full-court press to a group of ...

Winston Churchill famously described Soviet Russia as "a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma". This characterisation also fits modern Afghanistan, as amply demonstrated by repeated failures ...

At Kandahar airfield, Afghans and Western coalition ... The Afghan air force was formed with assistance from the Soviet Union in 1921, reorganized by the Soviets in the 1950s, and fully revamped ...

Maulvi Haibatullah Akhundzada in his speech before the prayers emphasized unity and the elimination of differences. He said ...