Commandos armed with RPG-7 rocket launchers aim at a tank hundreds of metres away, fresh recruits to Afghanistan's most skilled fighting force -- an elite group whose growing strength, US g ...

General John Nicholson, the head of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan says he is "not refuting" reports that Russia was providing support, including weapons, to the Taliban. Saman ...

Afghanistan is beefing up its elite special forces units, which have been badly stretched by two years of rushing from crisis to crisis to hold back an escalating Taliban insurgency. Samanth ...

Taliban fighters capture the strategic district of Sangin in the southern Afghan province of Helmand, after security forces pulled out, leaving the district center to the insurgents. Samanth ...