Hospital Bombed in Southern Afghanistan as Battles Rage Provincial council chief Attaullah Afghan confirmed that the hospital was struck by the Afghan air force.
China-Taliban Ties Warming Ahead of US Withdrawal China’s foreign minister met Wednesday with a delegation of high-level Taliban officials.
US Stepping Up Airstrikes This Week to Support Afghan Forces The Pentagon says the U.S. military is intensifying airstrikes this week in support of Afghan government forces in their...
US Pays $4B to Afghan Forces; Who Is Watching? The U.S. and NATO have promised to pay $4 billion a year until 2024 to finance Afghanistan’s military and security forces.
Pakistani Army: Afghan Soldiers Flee Attack, Cross Border The statement said 46 members of the Afghan forces, including five officers, crossed the border late Sunday near the...
To Reach a Peace Deal, Taliban Say Afghan President Must Go The spokesman for the Afghan Taliban says the insurgents don't want to monopolize power.
Taliban Appears to Have 'Strategic Momentum,' Gen. Milley Says The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says the Taliban appear to have “strategic momentum” in the fight for control of...
Afghan President Slams Taliban; Rockets Target Kabul Palace The palace is in the middle of a so-called Green Zone that is fortified with giant cement blast walls and barbed wire.
Taliban Say They Want Afghan Deal, Even as They Battle On There are few signs of a political agreement on the horizon.
Analysis: How Afghan War Showed Limits of US Military Power The U.S. military may have missed opportunities to stabilize Afghanistan in the early years after ousting the Taliban.
Pentagon Again Expanding Military Border Zones, This Time in Arizona The newest military zone in Arizona -- the fourth border zone created by the Trump administration -- will encompass 140 miles...
Football Dreams Led to 'Fat Boy Flight' and an Over-Forty-Year Air Force Career In 1971, as a high school senior and captain of the football team, I assumed a college athletic scholarship was in my future...
US Contractors Say Their Colleagues Are Firing Live Ammo as Palestinians Seek Food in Gaza Two U.S. contractors, speaking to the AP on condition of anonymity because they were revealing their employers’ internal...
Tensions Are Rising Between Russia and Azerbaijan. Why Is This Happening Now? Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan...
Army Creating New Artificial Intelligence-Focused Occupational Specialty and Officer Field Service planners are moving to establish a new enlisted military occupational specialty focused on artificial intelligence...
![U.S. Marines and Afghan National Army soldiers walk in formation in Afghanistan.](http://images03.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2021-07/ApNewsroom_United_States_Afghanistan_92219.jpg?itok=UZPWa9rE "FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2009, file photo U.S. Marines from the 2nd Battalion 2nd Marines "Warlords" and Afghan National Army soldiers walk in formation during an operation in the Garmsir district of the volatile Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer, File)")
