Afghanistan

U.S. Envoy Hails Latest Talks With Taliban as the Best Ever

The Taliban currently control nearly half of Afghanistan

U.S. army and Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers walk as a NATO helicopter flies overhead in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Afghanistan, on August 13, 2015.

U.S. and Taliban Negotiators Are Scrambling to Rewrite a Draft on Troop Withdrawal

They're hoping to reach consensus before an all-Afghan peace conference Sun...

They're hoping to reach consensus before an all-Afghan peace conference Sunday

Smoke rises from the scene of a suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, July 01, 2019.

Powerful Bomb Blast Rocks Afghanistan's Capital Kabul, Killing 1 and Wounding Over 100

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack

An Afghan girl walks towards her school along a field on the outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif on May 12, 2019.

'Education is Under Fire' in Afghanistan, the U.N. Children's Agency Says

Close to half of all school-aged children in Afghanistan do not attend scho...

Close to half of all school-aged children in Afghanistan do not attend school, the UNICEF report said

A 30 April 1975 photo shows communist troops on top of trucks and APCs making their way to the center of Saigon

Peace With Honor: What Vietnam Can Teach Us About How to Leave Afghanistan

President Richard Nixon promised Americans that the Paris Peace Accords end...

President Richard Nixon promised Americans that the Paris Peace Accords ending the Vietnam War would bring “peace with honor.” They brought neither, and it now appears that the Afghan War is headed for a similar...

In this photograph taken on January 8, 2017, Afghan music students play during a rehearsal at The Afghanistan National Institute of Music in Kabul.

'We Won't Be Silenced,' Afghan Female Musicians Tell Taliban

"Women can’t go back to the dark days," says the country's first female con...

"Women can’t go back to the dark days," says the country's first female conductor

In this Sept. 27, 2017, file photo, Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl leaves a motions hearing during a lunch break in Fort Bragg, N.C.

How Bowe Bergdahl May End Up Being the Key to Peace with the Taliban

In the summer of 2018, the Trump Administration began quietly reaching out ...

In the summer of 2018, the Trump Administration began quietly reaching out to the Taliban to strike a peace deal in Afghanistan. With little apparent sense of irony, President Trump pursued negotiations through the same...

Afghanistan

U.S. Envoy Hails Latest Talks With Taliban as the Best Ever

U.S. and Taliban Negotiators Are Scrambling to Rewrite a Draft on Troop Withdrawal

Powerful Bomb Blast Rocks Afghanistan's Capital Kabul, Killing 1 and Wounding Over 100

'Education is Under Fire' in Afghanistan, the U.N. Children's Agency Says

Peace With Honor: What Vietnam Can Teach Us About How to Leave Afghanistan

'We Won't Be Silenced,' Afghan Female Musicians Tell Taliban

How Bowe Bergdahl May End Up Being the Key to Peace with the Taliban

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