Afghanistan has plunged deeper into a crisis marked by levels of child hunger unseen in 25 years and the closure of almost ...
Landmines and other explosives left behind after decades of war killed at least 92 people and injured 379 others in Afghanistan last year.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Pentagon's plan for an accountability review of the August 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, raises a question with few clear ...
82nd Airborne soldiers prepare to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/Air Force) The ...
(CNN) — Here’s a look at the US War in Afghanistan, which began on October 7, 2001 with allied air strikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets. The United States linked the September 11, 2001 terrorist ...
ABC News' Mike and Carlos Boettcher embedded with 101st Airborne Division. May 24, 2014— -- The Kunar province was home to some of the most brutal fighting in the Afghanistan War, and for the ...
At the peak of the war in Afghanistan, following President Barack Obama's troop surge in late 2009, about 110,000 service members were deployed to the country at a given time. At least some of those ...
When the congressionally appointed Afghanistan War Commission holds its first public hearing on Friday, witnesses will convene in a location chosen to send a message: the Washington, D.C., ...
During his 2012 re-election campaign, President Barack Obama pledged to "end the war in Afghanistan in 2014." As straightforward as that might sound, disentangling U.S. involvement in Afghanistan ...
The closest analogue for the American invasion of Afghanistan was the Soviet one 20-odd years earlier. Unlike the Soviets, American troops went in initially as invading forces, whereas the Soviets ...
President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan over Memorial Day weekend to thank the American troops stationed there. He also told them that "by the end of this year, ...
Australia has closed its main military base in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, and the country’s final batch of combat troops are on their way home. The departure marks the end of several years of ...