KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — An elite new Taliban force is proving its strength in the strategic southern province of Helmand, pointing to the insurgents' ability to refine their battlefield ...

(CNN) — Fifteen people were freed from a Taliban prison in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand on Sunday, the international coalition said in a statement. Afghan and coalition forces ...

Soldiers and police officers, many in tears, heaved bodies of their comrades from the trucks and laid them on sheets on the ground, side by side on their backs, until there were 20 of them. The dead ...

In Faryab province, 250 miles to the northwest, an isolated Afghan National Army base of 100 soldiers lost more than half its men in a Taliban assault that ended early Sunday. The hardest-hit area was ...

Elite Afghan commandos – who worked closely with British intelligence services – and their families face grave danger after the major Ministry of Defence (MoD) data leak, The i Paper has been told. It ...

KABUL/MAZAR DARA, Afghanistan (Reuters) -Afghanistan airdropped commandos on Wednesday to pull survivors from the rubble in areas ravaged by earthquakes that have killed more than 1,400 this week, as ...

The former 'Triple' served in an elite special forces unit but was deported back to live under the Taliban last year ...

Afghan commandos are being airdropped into remote areas near the Pakistan border to aid earthquake rescue efforts. Taliban authorities in Afghanistan say the 6.0-magnitude quake on August 31 and ...

Hundreds of Afghan special forces soldiers betrayed by Britain had their details leaked in a major data breach before being left in the dark about the potential threat to their lives by the Taliban, ...

MARDAN, Pakistan (AP) — Army helicopters dropped Pakistani commandos behind Taliban lines in the Swat Valley on Tuesday as part of a widening offensive against the militants, while U.S. missiles ...