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Afghan forces, battling the Taliban, pulled out of some parts of Helmand this week. After nearly 15 years, what’s the point of the Afghan war?
Blinken said the State Department is in touch with “about 100 American citizens” in Afghanistan who are seeking to leave, but he was unable to provide a number for legal permanent residents.
The Zero Units served alongside Americans, helping them fight, then evacuate. Now, they face uncertainty as they begin new ...
An Afghan man and children sell Taliban flags on a street during a celebration marking the second anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan in Kandahar, south of Kabul ...
President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks because "it is time to end America’s longest war ...
Afghan war veteran Jason Kander discusses coping with post-traumatic stress. ... will testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday about issues surrounding the end of the ...
E ven in the context of war, attacking fleeing civilians is a depraved act. The Islamic State’s attack on Kabul’s airport during the American evacuation of Afghanistan, which killed nearly 200 ...
Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have revealed that US officials threatened war against Afghanistan during the summer of 2001. These reports include the ...
A T-shirt that was popular with veterans for much of America’s nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan showed a helicopter in flight with the caption We Were Winning When I Left.U.S. generals seem to ...
Will Afghanistan, which has been at war since 1978—thirty-four years, or a period longer than the two world wars and the intervening years combined—finally see a minimal kind of peace before ...
EA: If you traveled to Afghanistan, one thing you would note at most of the major American military bases, in places like Bagram or Kandahar, was that even after 20 years of war much of the ...
The Afghanistan War Commission will study the conflict’s myriad failures with a mandate to recommend how the U.S. can avoid a repeat performance.