The US Lifts Bounties on Senior Taliban Officials, Including Sirajuddin Haqqani, Says Kabul The Haqqani network grew into one of the deadliest arms of the Taliban after the U.S.-led 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.
Taliban Release an American Man Who Was Abducted While Traveling in Afghanistan An American man who was abducted more than two years ago while traveling through Afghanistan as a tourist has been released...
Trump's Funding Freeze Leaves US Allied Afghan Refugees Struggling for the Basics An Afghan father of two is among thousands of newly arrived refugees who lost financial assistance when the Trump...
Advocates Push Trump Administration to Help Afghan Allies in Face of Potential Travel Ban Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and advocates for Afghans who worked for the U.S. want aid restarted and carveouts from future...
Netflix's Newest 'American Manhunt' Chronicles the Search to Bring Osama bin Laden to Justice On May 2, 2011, teams of U.S. Navy SEALs landed in and around a compound in Abbottabad, deep inside Pakistan. Their mission...
Suspect in Kabul Airport Bombing During Afghanistan Pullout Is Caught and Heading to US, Trump Says A suspected senior planner in the suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members during the...
These Soldiers Risked Their Lives Serving in Afghanistan. Now They Plead With Trump to Let Their Sister into the US Taken together, Trump’s actions are effectively dismantling the U.S. refugee system and eroding the country’s historic...
10 Months Later, Afghan Refugees Labor to Build New Lives in US Nasirullah Mohammadi is one of the 76,000 Afghans who were lucky enough to get on a U.S. military flight out of Kabul in...
Our Next War in Afghanistan Is Already Looming. And It May Be Even Harder. The dangers that kept the U.S. in Afghanistan for so long are accumulating again, little more than a month after troops left...
Anger over Afghanistan and the Imperfect Example of Stu Scheller Lt. Col. Stu Scheller has become a symbol in some military and political circles of a need for military accountability and...
Federal Government Shutdown Grinds into a Second Week as Tempers Flare at the Capitol As the federal government shutdown enters a second week, there’s no discernible endgame in sight.
Trump Targets Blumenthal, Calling for Investigation into Senator's Vietnam Service Claims President Donald Trump is targeting U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal again after Connecticut’s senior U.S. senator grilled U.S...
At 50, He Survived Marine Boot Camp — Then Fought at Peleliu and Okinawa When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more...
Ukrainian Drones Attack Russian Cavalry Troops in Rare 21st-Century Encounter A short video circulating online this month appears to show a Russian mounted patrol being struck by a Ukrainian drone near...
When The Government Can Afford Everything Except The Essentials Every shutdown forces the government to decide what counts as “essential.” Air traffic controllers and TSA agents fall into...
