U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl will be sentenced by a military judge on Monday after the former Taliban hostage pleaded guilty to desertion charges for walking away from his post in Afghan ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis visited Kabul on Wednesday to pledge support for the government of President Ashraf Ghani, with the precarious security in the Afghan capital underlined by ...

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 ...

The killing of three American soldiers by an Afghan counterpart comes as the Trump administration discusses whether to send thousands of additional U.S. and coalition troops to the country. ...

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 ...

NATO's commander in Afghanistan insists the dropping of the US military's largest non-nuclear bomb on the strongholds of Islamic State was the right weapon at the right time.

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 ...