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Demonstrating their recent technological advancement, over the weekend Afghanistan's Taliban released drone footage showing a suicide bomber driving a Humvee into a police base in Helmand province and blowing it up this month.
Ground Troops Will Engage in 'Occasional' Combat
28 Killed, Over 300 Wounded in Attack on Secret Service Building
TASS reports Russia donated to the Afghan government 10,000 Kalashnikov guns and 2.1 million cartridges in February, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vitaly Churkin said on Tuesday.
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Military Taking Advantage of Obama's Granting Authority to Target Them
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Amid ISIS' spread, with NATO troops pulling out, and local law enforcement agencies ill-equipped and underfunded, Afghanistan has once again become the frontline in the so-called "War On Drugs."
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Interior Ministry: Defenses in City 'Collapsed' in Face of Latest Offensive
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After the United States has been in Afghanistan for 14 years, 91,000 Afghans have been killed and 26,000 wounded
The Taliban attacks on the Afghan parliament and the northern city of Kunduz are a reflection of the fragile security situation prevailing in the country. DW examines.
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As many as 10,000 Afghan families have fled their homes as Taliban insurgents and government forces prepared for a major battle for control of the southern fringes of Kunduz city, officials said on Wednesday.
Keeping US Troops Means Peace With Taliban Harder to Reach
The U.S. military bases in Kandahar and Jalalabad are likely to remain open beyond the end of 2015, a senior U.S. official said, as Washington considers slowing its military pull-out from Afghanistan to help the new government fight the Taliban.
The Obama administration is abandoning plans to cut the number of US forces in Afghanistan to 5,500 by year's end, bowing to military leaders who want to keep more troops, including many into the 2016 fighting season, US officials say.
The US is considering slowing its military exit from Afghanistan by keeping a larger-than-planned troop presence this year and next because the new Afghan government is proving to be a more reliable partner,
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Ordnance left by parting international troops kills or injures about 40 people a month – the vast majority children
Three US military contractors were killed today in a shooting at the Kabul Airport, when an Afghan soldier opened fire on them. The soldier was also killed in the incident.
Policeman Turned on Commander in Nawzad District
Calculating the cost of a war is a little like finding the true cost of a car.
Scores Wounded, Children Still Missing After Helmand Incident
With the Taliban still fighting and Afghan troops still in training, some U.S. troops won't be coming home soon.
Points to 'War End' Claims by NATO as Admission of Defeat
The U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan formally ended its combat mission, more than 13 years after an international alliance ousted the Taliban government for sheltering the planners of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on American cities.
The Kerry-brokered Afghan power-sharing agreement hasn't resolved any problems, or appointed any ministers.