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Afghan Women Demand Role in Peace Process, Wish to Uphold Rights

Afghan women are strongly fighting for their rights to be a part of future talks regarding peace pro...

Jan 22, 2016 04:09 AM EST

U.S. soldier Bergdahl may face life sentence in court-martial over desertion

U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan and became a Taliban ...

Dec 15, 2015 03:21 AM EST

Report says combination of errors led to U.S. bombing of MSF hospital: NYT

A U.S. air strike that destroyed a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the northern Afghan c...

Nov 24, 2015 09:54 PM EST

MSF says planes may have attacked staff fleeing Kunduz hospital

Medical aid group Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Thursday it was hard to believe a U.S. strike ...

Nov 06, 2015 12:54 AM EST

Obama urges Pakistan to avoid raising nuclear tensions with new weapons

At a time of heightened tensions between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan, U.S. President Bar...

Oct 23, 2015 02:06 AM EDT

U.N. to hold off on separate Afghan bombing probe for now

The United Nations said on Monday it would wait for the results of U.S., NATO and Afghan investigati...

Oct 05, 2015 09:28 PM EDT

Afghan forces have retaken main areas of Kunduz: officials

Afghan government forces recaptured main areas of the northern city of Kunduz from the Taliban in a ...

Sep 30, 2015 09:44 PM EDT

Lawmakers demand president resigns as Afghan battle rages

Afghan lawmakers called on President Ashraf Ghani to resign on Wednesday over his government's "sham...

Sep 30, 2015 04:16 AM EDT

Afghan Taliban seize Kunduz city center in landmark gain

Taliban fighters on Monday battled their way into the center of Kunduz, a city in northern Afghanist...

Sep 29, 2015 03:53 AM EDT

U.S., allies review Afghan pullback options - WSJ

U.S. and allied defence officials, increasingly wary of White House plans to scale back the U.S. pre...

Sep 25, 2015 06:58 AM EDT

Bergdahl lawyers seek public release of military report on disappearance

The lawyers for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl filed papers on Monday seeking the public release o...

Sep 22, 2015 01:29 AM EDT

Afghan Taliban storm jail, release hundreds of prisoners: police

Taliban insurgents stormed a prison in the central Afghan city of Ghazni early on Monday, killing po...

Sep 14, 2015 01:20 AM EDT

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

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

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

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