Afghanistan

Watch as Second Battalion, the Royal Gurkha Rifles (2RGR) conducts pre-deployment training for Afghanistan.

KABUL, Afghanistan –  A representative of a notorious Afghan warlord who lives in hiding says he has dropped his key condition for ending his war of more than 40 years with Kabul. Amin Karim, an official of the Hezb-i-Islam Party, says its leader, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, is no longer demanding that all foreign troops leave Afghanistan. […]

One of the most powerful players in Afghanistan, Atta Muhammad Noor, says he would be willing to step down from his post as a northern provincial governor — as soon as the central government reappoints him to the spot. He was actually dismissed as governor of Balkh Province, a vital commercial hub that includes the city […]

Months before the 9/11 terror attacks, U.S. Air Force captain Scott Swanson was controlling a Predator drone over Afghanistan. Swanson and his team were looking for Osama Bin Laden … and they found him. But this was months before the Predator could fire missiles. The drone operators could only watch as the terrorist leader walked […]

Afghanistan’s embattled government is facing a new challenge to its rule: former supporters, disillusioned by what they think is its incompetence, who now want fresh elections to remove the president from power. The discontent comes as the country is confronting a robust Taliban insurgency and an economy crippled by the withdrawal of foreign troops. Over […]

Pentagon reports an F-16 crashed after taking off from Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan.  Enemy fire was ruled out as a cause of the incident. Image Courtesy of the Department of Defense See the video at Fox News

MARSOC’s Fox Company was wrongfully accused of killing Afghan civilians in March of 2007, but their reputations are still tarnished.

By any measure, the number of women serving in the Afghan Special Security Forces is small — 80 women out of some 14,000 personnel. But while many are relegated to support roles, about 20 of the women are employed as members of the tactical platoons and counterintelligence units integral to the effectiveness of the special […]

This transcript offers just a glimpse of Bergdahl’s perspective and the factors that drove him to leave his post.

A senior American general has proposed resuming offensive strikes against the Taliban, exposing a rift between the military and senior administration officials over the U.S. role in the war in Afghanistan, according to military officials. Senior Pentagon officials complained that Gen. John F. Campbell, who commanded U.S. forces in Afghanistan until earlier this month, broke […]

Tabesh Ahmadi arrived at this capital city’s sole passport office before dawn, hoping to join more than 35,000 Afghans who have fled their country this year for Western Europe in search of peace and stability. By 6:30 a.m., the line was up to 350 people. “We are all aware of the risks after we cross the Turkish border and the […]

The U.S. Army has more than 800 Apache helicopters in service, and more than 1,000 have been exported.