KABUL (Reuters) - Battles between the Taliban and government forces were responsible for the most Afghan civilian casualties in 2014, the war’s deadliest year, surpassing roadside bombs as the leading ...

While America’s longest war – the 20-year conflict in Afghanistan – ended when American forces hastily fled the country in August 2021, memories from two decades of bloody battles are still lodged ...

For a generation that lived the war in Afghanistan one grid square at a time, the war now feels like a series of dots on a map. A patrol base carved out of hardpan soil. A culvert on a highway that ...

U.S. soldiers under constant enemy fire at remote base in Eastern Afghanistan. KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Dec. 6, 2010 -- About 700 U.S. soldiers live at Camp Joyce, nestled along the Pakistan ...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Nov 6 (Reuters) - Omar Gul was on duty at a remote police checkpoint in Helmand's restive district of Sangin when the station came under fire. It was a warm night in ...

Well, it’s Friday. This is a special edition of the Pentagon Rundown in which we will look at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise that the latest Defense Department review of the U.S. military’s ...

Last week the bipartisan Afghanistan War Commission held its first public hearing since it was established in 2021, with members of the foreign policy great-and-good offering testimony on the origins ...

Australia's new defense minister warned U.S. and NATO allies over the weekend that they risk losing the war in Afghanistan without a sharp shift in military and reconstruction efforts there, according ...

A former member of the Afghan army, Mohammad Ali Dadfar aided the U.S. military during battles with the Taliban. He's now ...