Hours after Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a former Afghan commando who worked on behalf of the CIA during wartime, allegedly shot two National Guard troops blocks away from the White House on Nov. 26, I ...

The Afghan national who has been charged with shooting two members of the West Virginia National Guard this week was reportedly a member of the elite Afghan "Zero Unit" forces backed by the CIA - with ...

(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 ...

Afghan special forces were deployed to Ghazni after the latest attempt by the Taliban to capture an urban centre, with the assault coming as pressure builds on the insurgents to enter peace talks.

With fighting expected to pick up this spring, Afghanistan's security is heavily dependent on elite forces like the commandos. NPR's Tom Bowman... With The U.S. In The Background, Afghan Commandos ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two American service members were killed during an operation in Afghanistan on Friday, the U.S. and NATO forces said. The fatalities, which bring to four the number of U.S.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members led a team in the Afghanistan war and worked with U.S. and British ...

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 ...

Aziz’s family was sitting down for an evening meal in their cramped Islamabad hotel room when there was a knock at the door. When his nine-year-old daughter opened it, she was faced with a group of ...