Afghanistan

The insurgents have captured five out of 34 provincial capitals in the country in less than a week.

A Pentagon spokesman emphasized that Americans now see the fight as one for Afghan political and military leaders to win or...

The city's fall was the latest in a weekslong, relentless Taliban offensive.

The U.S. needs to take the lead to get the Afghan government and the Taliban back to the negotiation table, Moeed Yusuf said.

There is no plan to retire the National Defense Service Medal, or NDSM, the military's most common decoration.

Some of the foreign contractors who powered the logistics of America’s “forever war” in Afghanistan now find themselves...

The Pentagon estimates that the Taliban now controls half of Afghanistan's 419 district centers.

The Afghan air force carried out more airstrikes against Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan on Thursday.

Turkey is already hosting some 3.7 million Syrians who fled the civil war there.

Two hundred Afghans arrived at the base on July 30, and the base has been told to prepare for upward of 3,500 people to be...