KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A wedding was called off because international troops killed the groom. A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of a police patrol. An old woman was beaten by the Taliban ...

Pakistan conducted airstrikes in Afghanistan targeting Taliban military sites. This action followed alleged unprovoked firing ...

A Times investigation uncovered a brutal campaign enacted by U.S.-backed forces during the war in Afghanistan. By Azam Ahmed I covered the war in Afghanistan and went back after the Taliban took over.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In the make-or-break struggle for Kandahar, birthplace of Afghanistan’s Taliban insurgency, U.S.commanders will try to pull off the military equivalent of brain surgery: defeating ...

The September 11th attacks in 2001 were quick to ignite America’s ‘Global War on Terrorism’. The main goal of this new conflict was to locate and destroy the terrorists responsible for the attack, ...

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