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The blast targeted a bank in Kandahar, where Taliban members had gathered to collect their salaries, witnesses said. A suicide bombing outside a bank in southern Afghanistan on Thursday killed [...]

The blast targeted a bank in Kandahar, where Taliban members had gathered to collect their salaries, witnesses said. A suicide bombing outside a bank in southern Afghanistan on Thursday killedat [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Taimoor Shah ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan - Abdul Hamid's pomegranate trees were scarred from bullets and shrapnel. The river was low and the land dry. There was no [...]

ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan -- Abdul Hamid's pomegranate trees were scarred from bullets and shrapnel. The river was low and the land dry. There was no profit anymore from the fruit that [...]

The fall of the Western-backed government in August and the Taliban takeover of the country have been followed by an increase in Islamic State attacks across Afghanistan. At least 25 [...]

It was the second week in a row that attackers had struck a Shiite place of worship during Friday Prayer. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Multiple Islamic State suicide bombers at a [...]

Local officials said insurgents had flooded Pul-i-Khumri and Faizabad in the north, and Farah in western Afghanistan, making it 9 fallen cities in five days. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghan forces [...]

Zaranj, on the Afghanistan-Iran border, was the first provincial capital to be captured by the insurgents since the Biden administration said it would completely withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan. KABUL, [...]

Government reinforcements arrived Saturday in Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand Province, but people were fleeing their homes and a hospital in the city had been bombed. KABUL, Afghanistan -- [...]

Detentions and summary executions of those accused of colluding with the Kabul government were also reported, with the Taliban found to be largely responsible. KABUL, Afghanistan -- Civilian casualties and [...]

An unofficial cease-fire brokered by local officials, farmers and Taliban forces is an example of how communities, driven by despair, have engineered their own ways to stop the fighting. PANJWAI, [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Taimoor Shah and Jim Huylebroek PANJWAI, Afghanistan - The Taliban have been encroaching on key cities around Afghanistan for months, threatening to drive the country to its [...]

PANJWAI, Afghanistan -- The Taliban have been encroaching on key cities around Afghanistan for months, threatening to drive the country to its breaking point and push the Biden administration into [...]

An incursion that devastated a prized crop shows the loss and uncertainty that many Afghans endure. ARGHANDAB, Afghanistan -- Crack a pomegranate in half and its blood-red seed-filled chambers make [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff and Taimoor Shah Its name was Observation Post Rock. The outpost is the backdrop for a ghost story, and is known for strange voices, radio static and [...]

Its name was Observation Post Rock. The outpost is the backdrop for a ghost story, and is known for strange voices, radio static and the creeping fear of being watched. [...]

Byline: David Zucchino and Taimoor Shah Villagers confronted officials, and seven police officers are now in jail, in a rare official action to investigate child sexual abuse accusations in Afghanistan. [...]

Villagers confronted officials, and seven police officers are now in jail, in a rare official action to investigate child sexual abuse accusations in Afghanistan. KABUL, Afghanistan -- It started as [...]

Anger over the closing of the border because of coronavirus fears triggered demonstrations, and then artillery barrages. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Some of the most intense border clashes between Pakistan and [...]

Byline: Mujib Mashal, Fatima Faizi, Najim Rahim and Taimoor Shah Afghanistan's health system, largely dependent on foreign aid, has been overwhelmed, and official numbers are seen as an indication of [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban have offered a brief period of reducing violence in Afghanistan during ongoing negotiations with United States diplomats, three officials familiar with the talks said on [...]

The assassination of an Afghan government employee while his daughter was next to him has underscored the lasting trauma of the intensifying war. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- It was a daddy-daughter [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban officials have met in Pakistan with the top American diplomat who recently led peace negotiations with them, current and former members of the insurgent group said [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Government officials in southern Afghanistan said on Monday that as many as 40 civilians, including children, may have been killed during an American-supported Afghan military raid on [...]

HERAT, Afghanistan -- One friend was known for his guitar skills, strumming his instrument during late nights of student life. A second worked for a local television station part time. [...]

Byline: Thomas Gibbons-Neff, Taimoor Shah and Najim Rahim KABUL, Afghanistan - The war in Afghanistan has raged for nearly 18 years, cost billions of dollars, shattered countless families and consumed [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The war in Afghanistan has raged for nearly 18 years, cost billions of dollars, shattered countless families and consumed the administrations of three American presidents. But it [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The war in Afghanistan has raged for nearly 18 years, cost billions of dollars, shattered countless families and consumed the administrations of three American presidents. But it [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- When the Taliban overran the district center of Maruf in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar this year, the government resorted to a familiar tactic: Simply relocate [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Dozens of Afghan forces and Taliban fighters were killed in overnight fighting across Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, as violence intensified ahead of another round of peace efforts [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The Afghan military has suffered its worst loss of the year in southern Afghanistan, with at least 40 security force members killed in a Taliban attack this [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Taliban suicide bombers penetrated a key government military base in southern Afghanistan on Friday, in a major attack that inflicted heavy casualties on the eve of the [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Afghan border security troops were asleep inside their remote post in southern Afghanistan early Friday when a Taliban infiltrator climbed a guard tower. Moments earlier, a lone [...]

KABUL -- At least 10 civilians were killed and several others were wounded over the weekend during American airstrikes in southern Afghanistan, local officials and residents in Helmand Province said [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Local Afghan officials are blaming the American military for two airstrikes that killed 29 people this week, most of them women and children, in heavy fighting in [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- After the Chinese Consulate in a major Pakistani city was attacked by a squad of suicide bombers last month, Pakistani officials pointed fingers at the commander of [...]

WASHINGTON -- The long and winding case of Maj. Mathew L. Golsteyn had all the elements of a story that would seize President Trump's attention. A Green Beret charged by [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- The Taliban's most senior commander in southern Afghanistan was killed in an American airstrike, the insurgent group and Afghan and American officials said on Sunday.The commander, Mullah [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- An operation by Afghan and American forces in the southern Afghan province of Helmand has left at least a dozen civilians dead, officials and residents said on [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- A longtime deputy in the Taliban who was arrested in a joint intelligence raid by American and Pakistani agents eight years ago has been freed, the insurgent [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- As mourners carried a slain anti-Taliban police chief through the streets of this Afghan city gripped with grief and fear on Friday, the immediate consequences of the [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- One of the most devastating Taliban assassination strikes of the long Afghan war on Thursday killed a regional police chief with a larger-than-life reputation as one of [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- In a reversal of a longstanding policy, American diplomats held face-to-face talks with Taliban representatives in Qatar a week ago without Afghan government officials present, two senior [...]

Byline: MUJIB MASHAL, TAIMOOR SHAH and NAJIM RAHIM KABUL, Afghanistan -- As many as 30,000 Afghan police officers fighting a bloody war against the Taliban have been denied their modest [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- As many as 30,000 Afghan police officers fighting a bloody war against the Taliban have been denied their modest salaries for months, officials said on Wednesday, as [...]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- At least 16 people, including security personnel and bystanders, were killed on Tuesday as bomb disposal experts tried and failed to defuse explosives in a parked car [...]

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban insurgents abandoned their effort to take over the capital of the western Afghan province of Farah, leaving the city early Wednesday without apparent opposition, local residents [...]