(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan — The death toll from a major earthquake in eastern Afghanistan passed 1,400 on Tuesday, with more than 3,000 people injured, Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban government spokesman, ...

Pakistan’s deportation campaign continues to stoke fear among Afghans mired in the stalled United States. Refugee Admissions Program, according to multiple sources who spoke with me on condition of ...

An ultra-conservative, violence-wracked province in northwest Pakistan is turning to someone unexpected to help combat the scourge of extremism: Women. The idea of women commandos may fly in the face ...

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 ...