Afghanistan

Coming home to war: Afghan refugees return reluctantly from Pakistan

Rahim Khan's return to Afghanistan 28 years after fleeing to Pakistan was not the homecoming he had ...

Sep 06, 2015 08:22 AM EDT

Greek ship ferries hundreds more migrants to mainland

A ship bringing about 1,800 migrants and refugees from an eastern Greek island to the port of Piraeu...

Sep 01, 2015 09:00 PM EDT

Unprecedented migrant crisis forces EU to seek answers

European Union ministers were summoned on Sunday to meet in two weeks' time to seek urgent solutions...

Aug 30, 2015 06:37 PM EDT

Bergdahl lawyer slams candidate Trump over 'traitor' comments

The lawyer for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, the former Taliban prisoner in Afghanistan charged ...

Aug 20, 2015 06:26 PM EDT

U.S. military probe of Afghan shooting found Bales' camp had lax discipline

The month before he killed 16 Afghan civilians in a shooting rampage, Army Staff Sergeant Robert Bal...

Aug 18, 2015 09:24 PM EDT

Derelict Kos hotel a haven for migrants trapped in Greece

Mohammed Ibrahim fled fighting in Afghanistan for a better life in Germany but found himself trapped...

Aug 17, 2015 09:44 AM EDT

Attacks on army, police and U.S. special forces kill 50 in Kabul

A wave of attacks on the Afghan army and police and U.S. special forces in Kabul have killed at leas...

Aug 09, 2015 09:09 PM EDT

Senior Pakistan cleric offers to help Taliban heal leadership rift

A senior Pakistani cleric widely known as the "Father of the Taliban" offered on Thursday to mediate...

Aug 06, 2015 10:25 PM EDT

Walkout at Taliban leadership meeting raises specter of split

At the Taliban meeting this week where Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour was named as the Islamist mili...

Aug 01, 2015 06:38 AM EDT

Second round of Afghan peace talks likely next week in China

China is likely to host a second round of peace talks between the Afghan government and Taliban repr...

Jul 24, 2015 08:19 AM EDT

Cocaine smugglers turn to South Asia for new routes, markets

Police who seized Asia's largest known shipment of liquid cocaine at a Bangladeshi port late last mo...

Jul 12, 2015 10:21 AM EDT

In turf war with Afghan Taliban, Islamic State loyalists gain ground

Fighters loyal to Islamic State have seized substantial territory in Afghanistan for the first time,...

Jun 29, 2015 09:21 AM EDT

Taliban attacks Afghan parliament

A Taliban suicide bomber and six gunmen attacked the Afghan parliament on Monday as lawmakers met to...

Jun 22, 2015 06:18 PM EDT

Al Qaeda deputy leader killed in U.S. bombing in Yemen

The deputy leader of al Qaeda, Nasser al-Wuhayshi, has been killed in a U.S. bombing in Yemen, the g...

Jun 17, 2015 06:29 AM EDT

U.S. sends six Yemeni prisoners from Guantanamo to Oman for resettlement

Six Yemenis held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo have been flown to...

Jun 13, 2015 05:28 AM EDT

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