Over the past six days, the insurgents have overrun nine provincial capitals across the country, most of them clustered in the north, in a ...

The development comes as Taliban has captured several provincial capitals, including many in the north, over the past week, putting enormou...

The US has already pulled back most of its forces from Afghanistan and is looking to complete the drawdown by August 31, ending nearly two-...

The militants have ramped up their push across much of Afghanistan, turning their guns on provincial capitals after taking large swaths of ...

The insurgents have for weeks been trying to take Kandahar and Lashkar Gah -- both with Pashtun majorities from where the Taliban draw thei...

In recent days the Taliban have escalated attacks on northern provinces, which lie outside their traditional strongholds in the south but w...

Kunduz is the third provincial capital to fall in the past three days, but the most significant Taliban gain since the insurgents launched ...

A defense ministry statement said air strikes were carried out across the country, including in the southern Helmand province, where the pr...

A new report by the UN Security Council, published on Thursday, said that despite territorial, leadership, manpower and financial losses du...

Afghan foreign minister Salahuddin Rabbani joined Akbaruddin in identifying terrorist safe havens across the border.