Airstrikes pummel Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan VIEW
The Afghan defense ministry says U.S. and Afghan airstrikes are hitting Taliban targets in an effort to dislodge the insurgents after they pushed into the...
Afghan official: Acting defense minister targeted in attack VIEW
A powerful explosion rocked an upscale neighborhood of Afghanistan’s capital in an attack that apparently targeted the country’s acting defense minister
Taliban take much of provincial capital in south Afghanistan
The Taliban are pressing ahead with their advances in southern Afghanistan and have captured nine out of 10 districts of the Helmand provincial capital