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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Under Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the new commander of international forces here, the American-led military coalition is no longer aiming to change Afghanistan. Its focus now [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The longest shadow in Afghan politics is cast by a traffic post that used to stand in Ariana Square outside the presidential palace: the Taliban hanged Najibullah, [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- President Hamid Karzai leveled particularly harsh accusations against the United States on Sunday, suggesting that the Americans and the Taliban had a common goal in destabilizing his [...]

SISAY OUTPOST, Afghanistan - How far is Kabul from the war? These days, if you drive south or west, no more than an hour and a half. You can go [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A man who had been arrested on suspicion of insurgent activity and then released by the Afghan authorities detonated a remote-controlled bomb along a road outside Kabul [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers and gunmen barraged the diplomatic quarter and the Parliament in the Afghan capital for hours on Sunday and struck three eastern provinces as well, [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A record number of Afghan civilians were killed in the conflict here last year, the majority at the hands of the Taliban and other insurgent groups whose [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Despite criticism from neighboring countries, threats from the Taliban and calls for a boycott from some political opponents, President Hamid Karzai has called a loya jirga, the [...]

PORAK, Afghanistan -- The devastating attack on an American helicopter in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend has heightened attention on the harsh reality that even now, at the height of [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Many in Kabul are welcoming the announcement of the United States troop withdrawal, but in southern Afghanistan, in the pomegranate orchards and deserts that are the war's [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Violence struck southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, with attacks on government and security officials. There were also allegations that NATO forces had killed two civilians in a night [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- At least nine Hazara men have been killed in an ambush in a remote area of central Afghanistan that is largely controlled by the Taliban, the police [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- After five days of fighting, the Afghan border police, supported by American helicopters, repelled a force of Pakistani Taliban who appeared to have crossed the border to [...]

Afghanistan's president declared Thursday that reaching out to the Taliban's leadership would be a centerpiece of his plan to end the eight-year-old war in his country, setting in motion a [...]

The killing of at least nine men in a remote valley of eastern Afghanistan by a joint operation of Afghan and American forces put President Hamid Karzai and senior NATO [...]

The Taliban released a video of a captured American soldier on Friday, the second to surface since he was seized in southern Afghanistan about six months ago. Pfc. Bowe Bergdahl, [...]

The article discusses the dangers faced by policewomen in Afghanistan and what these dangers say about gender equality in the nation. Topics discussed include the impact of U.S. involvement in Afghanistan in the 21st century on the nation's social views, the views towards women held by Islamic fundamentalist organization the Taliban, and the sexual harassment of policewomen in the nation.

The article discusses the impact that the militant organization the Taliban's occupation of Kunduz, Afghanistan had on women in the city, including in regard to the Taliban's destruction of organizations in the city that involved women and Kunduz women's internal migration. An overview of the accusations that members of the Taliban raped women in Kunduz is provided.

The article states that the aid organization Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières, announced in early October 2015 that it was leaving Kunduz, Afghanistan, following an airstrike on the city's hospital that killed 22 and destroyed its intensive care unit. According to the article, the U.S. agency the Department of Defense said that U.S. forces may have inadvertently hit the hospital during a military operation, though fighters from the Islamic fundamentalist group the Taliban may have been inside the hospital firing at U.S. troops.

The article discusses the diplomatic strategies of Islamic fundamentalist organization the Taliban as of June 25, 2013, highlighting its establishment of a political office in Doha, Qatar and continued violence in Afghanistan. Topics addressed include the political backgrounds of Taliban delegates sent to the Doha office including Sohail Shaheen, Mohammad Naim Wardak, and Shabuddin Delawar, and the Taliban's motivations for establishing the Doha office.

The article discusses Islamic fundamentalist organization the Taliban's efforts to establish peace talks regarding the conflict in Afghanistan as of June 18, 2013, highlighting the Taliban's opening of a political office in Qatar. Topics addressed include the Taliban's political motivations and goals, and diplomatic relations between the Taliban, the U.S. government, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

The article discusses the effectiveness of a peace envoy of emissaries from the Taliban fundamentalist organization that was sent to Qatar in order to negotiate a peace deal related to the Afghan war in 2010. Topics addressed include a lack of negotiations between the Taliban and American and Afghan diplomats, and discussions of the possible release of Taliban and American prisoners.

The article discusses the development of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music, founded in 2010, and its role in changing the social and cultural context of a country in which music was banned for years by the fundamentalist organization, the Taliban. The opportunities given to many young Afghan children through the school, including trips to the United States to visit Carnegie Hall and Broadway in New York, New York, are described, and the school's mission to include girls in music education is highlighted.

The article discusses safety concerns among Afghans and Afghan farmers in light of the planned 2014 American and British military troop reduction in the Afghan War, focusing on their worries about the return of the Taliban to Afghanistan's Helmand Province. Topics include farming policies regarding the production of opium poppy plants, political corruption in Afghanistan's government, as well as statistics about violent attacks in the province.

The article reports on challenges faced by Afghan security forces for preventing attacks from the terrorist group Taliban on two southern Afghan provinces including Lashkar Gah in Helmand Province and Uruzgan Province.

The article discuses the issues of assault by the Islamic organization Taliban in Kunduz, Afghanistan along with a national security threat faced by Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani in Kunduz.

The article reports on the efforts of government forces of Afghanistan to retake the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan from fighters of Taliban terrorist group and presents views of Ahmad Khalid, resident of Kunduz, Afghanistan, on fear among the residents of the city.

The article reports on the terrorist attacks held by Taliban in three provinces in Afghanistan on May 12, 2014 that killed at least 11 people.

The article reports that Sushmita Banerjee, the author of the famous memoir of life under the Taliban which was made into a great Bollywood movie was killed on September 5, 2013.

The article reports that the attack of Taliban on an Afghan police convoy on August 29, 2013 at the main highway between Herat and Kandahar, Afghanistan prompts call for international air support.

The article reports on the attack of Taliban into Provincial Reconstruction Team Base, an international military base in Afghanistan, on August 28, 2013 which has killed seven people.

The article reports on the complete removal of the flag and flagpole Taliban in Qatar, that had led the Afghan delegations to boycott negotiations, but whether the change would push Afghanistan to Qatar for the peace talks is still in question.

The article reports that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has restrained the two strategic lines of the negotiation of the U.S. with the Taliban.

The article reports that the local police and the National Army (A.N.A.) in Afghanistan rae taking lead against the terrorist group Taliban, in which American and Afghan officials considers the move as a crucial test to the ability of Afghan forces to keep the said terrorist group.

The article reports that eight soldiers that are part of U.S. military coalition were killed in Afghanistan on May 4, 2013 due to the insider attack, wherein the Taliban claimed responsibility for the said attack.

The article reports on the plan of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry to host a meeting in Brussels, Belgium with top Afghanistan and Pakistan leaders to try to foster cooperation over the stalled reconciliation process with the Taliban and other issues.

The article reports on the abduction of 11 civilians by Taliban after their helicopter goes down in Afghanistan.

The article offers an overview of the educational system in Marja, Afghanistan which has been considered as among the most moving developments in the poverty-stricken area and has gained popular support, marking a sign of hope even if the Taliban returns.

The article reports on the joint American-Afghan military raid against the Taliban group in a mountain village in Afghanistan, which killed 7 civilians during the operation.

The article reports on the assassination of Najia Sediqi, who is the acting head of women's affairs in Laghman Province in Afghanistan. Ahmad Gul Baidar, the head of administrative affairs for the women's department, says that two assailants on a motorcycle killed Sediqi as she was getting into a rickshaw in Mehtar Lam. The death of Hanifa Safi, former women's affairs head, caused by the explosion of an improvised bomb under her car was attributed to the Taliban.

The article reports that six Taliban prisoners were executed following an order from Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai. It states that the six prisoners who were hanged at the Pol-e-Charki prison in Kabul, Afghanistan. It mentions that the prisoners have been convicted of terrorist attacks including kidnappings, assassinations, and suicide bombings.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban made a show of force across a province of northeastern Afghanistan on Friday, Afghan officials said, attacking dozens of government installations but causing relatively few deaths or injuries. The insurgent forces struck at least six districts of Kunar Province, attacking district governors' offices, police and army outposts, and other government buildings. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Local officials in western Afghanistan reported Tuesday that a low-level police commander had switched sides with his men and gone to fight for the Taliban, and an American engineer was reported killed in an area less than 50 miles from the Afghan capital. The apparent defection occurred in the Bala Baluk district of Farah Province in the far west part of the country, where the Taliban have been active. The province borders the Taliban heartland of Helmand Province and the largely lawless Ghor Province. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan president's spokesman sternly rebuked American officials on Saturday, saying that the civilian casualties last week during an NATO-Afghan raid on Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan were unacceptable, not only because of the loss of innocent life but also because Afghan forces were not involved in the decision to call in an airstrike. Aimal Faizi, the spokesman, said American forces had made a ''unilateral'' decision to strike a home where Taliban fighters were hiding before dawn on Wednesday, while the Afghan forces were prepared to fight it out. Afghan officials have said 18 civilians were killed, and Mr. Faizi said it was the bombing that had killed women and children. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Four aid workers, including two women, who were abducted May 22 were freed early Saturday in a NATO rescue operation in northern Afghanistan, according to a NATO spokesman and a Swiss-based aid organization, Medair. Captured by insurgents while returning from a visit to a nutrition and hygiene project in the remote mountainous region of Badakhshan Province, the group included two Afghans who worked with the aid organization. The area is so remote that it can be reached only on horseback, and the four were riding back when they were abducted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The potential scope of the fallout from the burning of several copies of the Koran by American military personnel this week became chillingly clear on Thursday as a man in an Afghan Army uniform shot and killed two American soldiers, while a crowd nearby protested the desecration of the Muslim holy book. In the third successive day of deadly violence over the Koran burning, seven Afghans were killed in three provinces on Thursday and many more were injured, most in skirmishes with Afghan security forces. The Afghan government, which had responded slowly on the first day of protests, was in high gear on Thursday as officials tried to tamp down emotions ahead of the Friday day of prayer. Western and Afghan authorities feared that there could be emotional demonstrations after the prayer that the Taliban and extremist elements would try to exploit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- In an insurgency, everyone is an imposter. The enemy wears no uniform and carries no identity card. Just so with a mullah in Kandahar named Noorul Aziz. After trading his job as a Taliban commander for a cushy post as an Afghan government official, the story goes, he was taken last month by the military coalition on a tour of his old bases, where he made speeches to persuade the locals not to support the insurgency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- The prospect of talks with the Taliban inched closer on Thursday when the leaders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran met to explore ways of pushing the nascent peace process forward. The two-day trilateral meeting hosted by the Pakistani president, Asif Ali Zardari, comes as his Afghan counterpart, Hamid Karzai, claims to have opened direct discussions with the Taliban for the first time in the 11-year-old insurgency. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]