Taliban Rebuff Trump's Call to Return US Arms Worth Billions The Taliban won’t return any of the military equipment left behind by the U.S. troops while exiting Afghanistan in 2021, a...
Taliban Say 2 Americans Held in Afghanistan Were Freed in a Prisoner Exchange A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan's Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure...
Biden Speaks with Relatives of Americans Held by Taliban, But Deal to Bring Them Home Still Elusive President Joe Biden spoke with relatives of three Americans the U.S. government is looking to bring home from Afghanistan...
US Military Warnings of Dire Situation in Afghanistan During Withdrawal Ignored, House GOP Report Finds Warnings from U.S. military officers about the Taliban's swift advances as American troops withdrew from Afghanistan in 2021...
Taliban Vice and Virtue Laws Provide 'Distressing Vision' for Afghanistan, Warns UN Envoy Taliban officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment on the U.N. criticism.
The Taliban Are Celebrating 3 Years in Power, but They’re Not Talking About Afghans The Taliban celebrated the third anniversary of its return to power at a former U.S. air base in Afghanistan on Wednesday...
US Appeals Court to Reconsider Dismissal of Former Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's Conviction The Justice Department filed an appeal last week immediately after a U.S. District Court judge spelled out his reasons for...
Moscow Terror Attack Showed Growing Reach of ISIS-K – Could the US Be Next? Considering ISIS-K’s track record and clear aspirations, it would be naïve to dismiss the possibility of an attack on...
Pakistani Jets Target Suspected Pakistani Taliban Hideouts in Afghanistan, Killing 8 People The exchange, two days after seven Pakistani soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing and coordinated attack in the country...
Was the War in Afghanistan Worth It? You May Not Like This Veteran's Honest Answer In "What The Taliban Told Me," a veteran Air Force cryptologic linguist responds to the question he gets asked the most about...
Trump's Promises to Radically Change the Military In this episode, we spoke to two experts with collective decades of experience in analyzing the promises President-elect...
Trailblazing Coast Guard Commandant Fired by Trump Administration Adm. Linda Fagan, the first woman to serve in the Coast Guard's top job, was relieved following the swearing-in ceremony for...
Culture War Fights Poised to Take Lead in Trump's Pentagon Agenda Hegseth's testimony did not delve deeply into how the administration will confront some of the thorniest national security...
The Battle over Veterans’ Health Care: How the Republican Majority Hopes to Reshape the VA With the new Congress sworn in and President-elect Trump poised for his second inauguration, Republicans have queued up a...
Trump Vowed to End the War in Ukraine Quickly but Moscow and Kyiv Are Digging in Before Any Talks Both sides have taken tough negotiating postures that leave little room for compromise.