Some analysts and diplomats have voiced concern that divisions in the Taliban, which fought a 20-year war against foreign forces and took over Afghanistan in 2021, might spill over into instability as ...

Many of their members were former Mujahedeen fighters who had been trained in Pakistan during Afghanistan's civil war in the '80s and '90s. They came together with the aim of making Afghanistan an ...

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers will stay united despite enemies' efforts to create divisions among the movement's leaders and the people, a spokesman said, ruling out the prospect of conflict or war ...

A three-year delay into a special forces investigation over alleged war crimes in Afghanistan meant that “crucial opportunities” were missed, an inquiry has heard. The Royal Military Police ...

The December collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria was stunning. Not only did it mark the end of the Assad family’s ...

Sgt. 1st Class Christopher Celiz was shot while shielding his comrades from enemy fire as they worked to save an injured ...

Britain’s Ministry of Defense announced in 2022 that it would institute the inquiry to investigate allegations of war crimes by British armed forces in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2013.

Ties between India & Maldives have improved throughout the second half of 2024, while New Delhi has promised more material ...

I reported from Afghanistan for three years starting in 2011 and I’ve covered the war in Ukraine since shortly before Russian troops and tanks crossed the border in early 2022. In terms of U.S ...

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the killing of a Chinese national in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, in a post on its Telegram channel late on Wednesday.

In evidence given to a public inquiry into suspected war crimes in Afghanistan, the soldier said an allegedly rogue special forces unit had targeted all males of fighting age, including under 16s ...

The ruling comes amid a crackdown on hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighboring Afghanistan who either ... the subsequent civil war and the rule of the Islamist Taliban from 1996 to ...