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U.S. Army soldiers at a checkpoint in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan, in July 2018. Two U.S. service members were killed on March 22, 2019, while conducting an operation, according to a statement released by the U.S. and NATO Resolute Support mission.

Two U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan, NATO says

August 22, 2019 at 10:47 a.m.

Two U.S. troops were killed in Afghanistan on Friday while carrying out an operation, the U.S.-led NATO coalition said. No details were provided, and their names will not be disclosed...

Afghan children play on the remains of an old destroyed Soviet Union tank in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad in 2012. Soviet troops first occupied Afghanistan in December of 1979. After a decade of fighting, which killed more than a million Afghans and 13,000 Soviet soldiers, they pulled out, leaving behind a civil war that ultimately brought the Taliban to power.

No, the Soviet Union did not invade Afghanistan because terrorists were crossing the border into Russia

August 22, 2019 at 10:13 a.m.

Afghan officials on Thursday denounced President Trump's praise of the 1979 Soviet invasion and occupation of their country, which he described this week as a fight against terrorism, breaking with...

Zalmay Khalilzad, special adviser on reconciliation, speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, in 2009.

The United States is negotiating with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan

August 22, 2019 at 10:07 a.m.

Talks in Abu Dhabi between the Taliban, the United States and several other countries stretched into a second day Tuesday as an Afghan government delegation arrived, raising the prospect that...

Amin Karim, an official of the Hezb-i-Islami Party speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 17, 2016.

Afghanistan closer to peace deal with warlord deemed ‘global terrorist’ by U.S.

August 21, 2019 at 6:18 p.m.

President Ashraf Ghani is inching closer to a peace deal with the leader of a militant group that, though largely inactive now, was a powerful force during Afghanistan's civil war...

President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a joint meeting of the National Assembly in Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 25, 2016.

Afghan leader sets aside peace bids, vows harsher fight against Taliban

June 25, 2019 at 3:42 a.m.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani stepped back Monday from attempts to engage Taliban insurgents in peace talks, vowing Afghanistan will instead "execute" enemies of the state and undertake preparations for an...

Officials: Top Islamic State leader killed in Afghanistan strike

June 20, 2019 at 11:54 p.m.

The top Islamic State leader in Afghanistan and Pakistan has been killed in a suspected U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan, Afghan intelligence officials said Saturday, the latest in a...

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