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Taliban attack on Afghan army base kills 10 soldiers
May 23, 2017 (AFP)
The assault in Shah Wali Kot district late Monday came just a day after 20 Afghan policemen were killed when Taliban fighters stormed their outposts in the neig...
Mattis seeks allied input ahead of Afghanistan proposal
May 17, 2017 (AFP)
The Pentagon is expected to request thousands of additional troops for Afghanistan in a bid to end chronic instability and snap a protracted stalemate against t...
Trump weighs further US troops for Afghanistan
May 14, 2017 (AFP)
The headline: "How Not to Lose in Afghanistan." The date: April 20, 2009. More than eight years later, the Pentagon finds itself in the same quandary. Again. Th...
Two killed in Kashmir cross-border firing
May 11, 2017 (AFP)
A teenage boy was killed and his grandmother wounded in Chorhai village in Pakistani Kashmir after "indiscriminate" firing from Indian troops, local official Ra...
Security in Afghanistan likely to 'deteriorate': US intelligence
May 11, 2017 (AFP)
"The political and security situation in Afghanistan will also almost certainly deteriorate through 2018, even with a modest increase in the military assistance...
Turkey slams US rapid arming Syrian Kurds in IS fight
May 10, 2017 (AFP)
The issue risks further stoking tensions between Ankara and Washington less than a week before President Recep Tayyip Erdogan heads to Washington to meet his US...
NATO mulls sending thousands more troops to Afghanistan
May 10, 2017 (AFP)
The troops were needed to train local forces, Stoltenberg told reporters following talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May at her Downing Street office in...
US to arm Kurdish fighters in Syria
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
The weapons will go to the fighters ahead of a upcoming offensive to recapture Raqa, the last major bastion for IS in Syria and the capital of their supposed "c...
Denmark open to sending more troops to Afghanistan: minister
May 09, 2017 (AFP)
"We have a favourable attitude to increase our troops in Afghanistan if necessary, but we haven't reached the conclusion yet," Claus Hjort Frederiksen said. "I ...
Blank space replaces NY Times article criticising Pakistani army
May 05, 2017 (AFP)
The online version of the piece by Mohammed Hanif, a high-profile satirist and novelist whose critiques of Pakistani society regularly appear in the New York Ti...
Pentagon to request thousands more troops for Afghanistan next week
May 04, 2017 (AFP)
After a steady downsizing of US troop numbers since 2011, US military commanders say they need to strengthen the numbers on the ground to better support Afghan ...
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar: Afghan ex-PM and 'butcher of Kabul'
May 04, 2017 (AFP)
A former prime minister, Hekmatyar was a prominent anti-Soviet commander in the 1980s and stands accused of killing thousands of people in Kabul from 1992 to 19...
US aims to eliminate IS from Afghanistan this year
May 02, 2017 (AFP)
While US and Kabul government forces have mainly been combatting Taliban fighters since 2001, IS's local offshoot -- also known as Islamic State-Khorasan, or IS...
NATO could boost Afghanistan mission: Stoltenberg
Apr 30, 2017 (AFP)
Given the "challenging" security situation, the 28-nation alliance was weighing an increase of the personnel of its "Resolute Support" train, assist and advise ...
US Marines return to Helmand; IS Afghan leader maybe dead
Apr 29, 2017 (AFP)
The deployment of some 300 Marines to the poppy-growing southern province came one day after the militants announced the launch of their "spring offensive", and...
British soldier who killed Afghan fighter freed from jail
Apr 28, 2017 (AFP)
Former Royal Marine Alexander Blackman was jailed for life in 2013 for shooting the fighter at close range in Helmand Province on September 15, 2011, after the ...
IS Afghanistan leader likely killed: Pentagon
Apr 28, 2017 (AFP)
US officials also said they have opened a probe into whether two US Army Rangers killed in the assault had been struck by friendly fire. The raid, which occurre...
Two US troops killed fighting IS in Afghanistan
Apr 27, 2017 (AFP)
US Forces-Afghanistan said the troops "came under attack during a raid against insurgents in Nangarhar province" late Wednesday. The troops were working with pa...
Turkey says US, Russia informed of strikes on Kurd militia
Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)
Washington angrily accused Turkey of lacklustre coordination after Turkish war planes carried out strikes on Kurdish militia forces in Syria on Tuesday, and als...
Traces of death at Afghan base attacked by Taliban
Apr 26, 2017 (AFP)
Images filmed by an AFP journalist reveal some of the horror of one of the deadliest attacks ever perpetrated in Afghanistan. The images and testimony collected...
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