Afghanistan

US President Joe Biden calls for US Navy veteran and civil engineer Mark Frerichs to be released by Taliban-linked Haqqani network.

A pregnant Al Jazeera journalist has been offered refuge by the Taliban after she was denied re-entry to her home country, New Zealand.

In 2011, Osama bin Laden was killed in Operation Neptune Spear in Pakistan. Here are some of the weird things they found in his compound.

The U.S. will be sending $308 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan, but will it be able to get this aid past the Taliban which would see these resources as useful in consolidating its own hold over the country?

The new year always brings the promise of new things being just on the horizon. The world is a volatile place today, with shifting economies, the continued presence of Islamist terrorism around the world, and the Great Game of competition between nations seeking diplomatic, strategic, and economic advantages around the globe. Everyone is a prognosticator […]

Award-winning author Toby Harnden has written a riveting account of the very first days of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan that followed the September 11th Attacks in 2001. Harnden’s book, “First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA to Avenge 9/11,” relies extensively on personal interviews with the particpants of these early battles to overthrow Taliban control of Afghanistan.

The Air Forces awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for Valor to Lt Col. Michael Coloney for a mission that saved a Special Forces Unit under attack in Afghanistan in 2018.

The award for SFC Alwyn Cashe has been considered the one award that has been the longest in coming. On October 17, 2005, Cashe, was on a combat patrol in Samarra, Iraq. As an Alpha Company platoon sergeant from Forward Operating Base (FOB) McKenzie, adjacent to Diyala, SFC Cashe was in the lead Bradley Fighting Vehicle when it struck a roadside Improvised Explosive Device (IED). 

The Taliban are either incapable of controlling their rank-and-file troops or never intended to abide by the amnesty assurances they had given.

ISIS is now using the same tactics that the Taliban used against the Western coalition.

“The violent extremism that attacked us on 9/11 is still there. We can never forget that,” Clarke said.

As we started setting up, I shone my flashlight on one spot on the ground  — and sure enough, there at my feet was a fire pit.