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The new group, known as Jamaat-e-Ahrar, is composed of disaffected Taliban factions from four of the seven tribal districts along the Pakistan border with Afghanistan....

American officials hoped to persuade Abdullah Abdullah, who withdrew observers from a United Nations vote audit, to continue talks on a unity government with his rival, Ashraf Ghani....

One hundred fifty years after the first burial at Arlington, the national cemetery is running short of room....

Name was on a list of participants in briefing with Barack Obama and subsequently sent to the media, Washington Post reports The White House inadvertently included the name of the top CIA official in Afghanistan on a list of participants in a military briefing with Barack Obama that was distributed to reporters on Sunday, the Washington Post reported . The newspaper said the official, identified as...

The president did not meet with the departing Afghan leader, Hamid Karzai, instead focusing on talking to American service members about the coming withdrawal....

No plans to meet President Hamid Karzai Visit is president's first to Afghanistan since 2012 re-election President Barack Obama secretly slipped into Afghanistan under the cover of darkness on Sunday, for a weekend visit with US troops serving in the closing months of America's longest war. Air Force One landed at Bagram air field, the main US base in Afghanistan, after an overnight flight from Washington....

US president tells troops at Bagram airbase that they are 'completing the mission' in America's longest war President Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, to spend Memorial day with troops still on the ground in the "last year" of America's longest war. He landed at sprawling Bagram airbase north of Kabul under cover of darkness, for his fourth visit to the country but the...

Photos from China, Ukraine, Afghanistan and India....

Gunmen armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades attacked the Indian Consulate in the western Afghan city of Herat on Friday, but its diplomatic staff members escaped unharmed, the police said....

Marieke van der Velden is a pool photographer. Not the designated shooter, but one who photographs swimming holes – from deluxe to decrepit – around the world....

Insurgents killed by police after unleashing machine gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades against diplomatic post in Herat Gunmen armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades attacked the Indian Consulate in western Afghanistan's Herat province on Friday in an assault that injured no diplomatic staff, police said. Indian diplomats said there had been a threat against its diplomats in Afghanistan...

In an exclusive interview, the former UN secretary general says the world's reluctance to intervene in multiple emergencies is scuppering the search for peace The world has let down the people of Syria, leaving tens of thousands to die as neighbouring nations wage proxy wars instead of working to prevent the bloodshed that has engulfed the country for the past three years, according to the former UN...

Another 13 officials awaited help as insurgents continued to besiege a district government complex in a remote corner of northern Afghanistan....

Here are some of the key players who have been named as possible members of Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi’s foreign policy and security teams....

Could turning to the hundreds of thousands of former and reserve soldiers help meet the hiring needs of companies?...

The insurgents boasted that their spring offensive was well underway, and said it proved they could disrupt the coming runoff election for president of Afghanistan....

Pakistani military claims 60 terrorists including key figures killed in operations in North Waziristan near Afghan border Pakistani military jets and helicopter gunships have attacked suspected militant hideouts near the Afghan border, killing 60 people, the army said. The main target of the air strikes on Wednesday was Mir Ali, a town in the North Waziristan, the army said in a statement. Continue...

President overrules cabinet opposition to target commanders praised for anti-Taliban operations in Kabul and beyond Afghanistan's government has suspended the three police special forces commanders responsible for securing the capital during crucial presidential elections, and plans to try them in a court martial for making illegal detentions and desecrating a mosque. The three men have also been accused...

Toward a unified theory of this White House’s foreign policy struggles....

Kyle Carpenter will receive military's highest award on 19 June Veteran recovered from severe injuries in Afghanistan Corporal Kyle Carpenter remembers lying on his back on a rooftop in Marjah, Afghanistan, crammed up against sandbags alongside his friend and fellow marine, Lance Corporal Nicholas Eufrazio. It was 21 November 2010, and his squad was trying push south into Taliban strongholds, working...