Pakistan says it killed 26 militants in "precise and calibrated" strikes, but Afghanistan's Taliban rulers claim 11 children and a woman are among the dead.

Five years ago, the 20-year American war in Afghanistan came to an inglorious end. In April 2021, the United States had begun its final withdrawal, with the goal of pulling out the 2,500 U.S. troops ...

Asia Is Racing to the Arctic, But It’s Not Easy An interview with Paul D. Miller about his upcoming book “Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan.” In an upcoming book, ...

From left: First Lady Laura Bush, U.S. President George W. Bush, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ronald E. Neumann, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai attend ...

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 ...

Since late 2025, a volatile conflict has unfolded between nuclear-armed Pakistan and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan, escalating ...

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 ...

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., ...

In 2022, after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban regained power, Afghans reported an average life satisfaction of 1.28 on a scale from 0 to 10—or from the worst possible life to ...

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