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The strike eliminated what U.S. officials called an imminent terrorist threat. With the military evacuation of Afghans over, the United States and others say they will still get people out. [...]

Families continued to swarm the airport in hopes of getting aboard American military planes. U.S. officials are now worried that Islamic State might launch an attack to damage the Taliban's [...]

In early May, a Taliban commander telephoned Muhammad Jallal, a tribal elder in Baghlan Province in northern Afghanistan, and asked him to deliver a message to Afghan government troops at [...]

After almost two decades of war in Afghanistan and just weeks before the scheduled withdrawal of U.S. forces, the Taliban swiftly returned to power in the capital, Kabul, on Sunday, [...]

Taliban fighters poured into the Afghan capital on Sunday amid scenes of panic and chaos, bringing a swift and shocking close to the Afghan government and the 20-year American era [...]

With U.S. troops leaving, the Taliban advancing, and a steady collapse of security force bases and outposts, the Hazara and other ethnic groups in Afghanistan are raising militias. KABUL, Afghanistan [...]

A program to bring people employed by the American military to the United States is backlogged, with thousands of applicants denied. KABUL, Afghanistan -- It was an offhand comment, blurted [...]

Dozens of besieged outposts or bases, and four district centers, have given up to the insurgents this month, in an accelerating rural collapse as American troops leave. MEHTARLAM, Afghanistan -- [...]

Even with violence escalating in the country, President Biden is bringing American troops home after nearly 20 years of war. President Biden, declaring that the United States had long ago [...]

The Taliban's recent shift to magnetic bombs to target Afghan officials in Kabul underscores the government's struggle to protect its own people. KABUL, Afghanistan -- As he has done most [...]

FAIZABAD, Afghanistan -- Fearing Taliban threats, President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan has mostly campaigned for re-election via Skype, reaching voters outside Kabul through ''virtual rallies.'' But on Tuesday, the president [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban fighters mounted their second attack in two days on a provincial capital in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, as American and Taliban negotiators finalized the details of [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- As law students waited outside Kabul University to take fourth-year exams shortly after daybreak on Friday, a suicide bomber drove up and detonated an explosive device, killing [...]

NAW DEH, Afghanistan -- Just before midterm exams in January, Mohammad Sadiq Halimi, the deputy education director for Farah Province in western Afghanistan, was given an ultimatum by local Taliban [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants attacked the compound of an American-run contractor in the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing at least five people and sending a stinging message to the [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Unarmed police officers were lining up for their monthly pay in northern Afghanistan on Sunday when a Taliban suicide bomber blew up an explosives-laden Humvee next to [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- It was a rare sight, even after 18 years of progress in Afghanistan: more than 700 women from across the country, gathered to send an unequivocal message [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghan border security troops were asleep inside their remote post in southern Afghanistan early Friday when a Taliban infiltrator climbed a guard tower. Moments earlier, a lone [...]