KABUL, Afghanistan --Afghanistan released 65 accused militants from a former U.S. prison on Thursday despite protests from the American military, which says the men are Taliban fighters who will ...

The U.S. military has promised to hand over control of its largest battlefield jail to the Afghan government -- eventually. The Afghan government has decided it's waited long enough. For years, the ...

Parwan*, who is 18 and from Bangladesh, has been forced to make his own way through life from a very young age. His long journey to Greece in search of safety and protection was fraught with dangers.

Police in southeastern Paktia province have arrested a man accused of killing two members of his paternal uncle’s family and ...

PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan (Dec. 7, 2011) -- The Soldiers parked their large fighting vehicles in a single file line. The bodies of these large machines nearly covered the dirt path these villagers ...

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan (Mar. 14, 2015) -- An educational shura, the Afghan word for "important meeting or consultation," was held today between Task Force Solid and Afghan educators, to include ...

Flash flooding killed at least 122 people and left more than 150 others wounded Wednesday across Afghanistan, with the northern province of Parwan hit hardest, officials said. The head of a hospital ...

The destroyed vehicle of Parwan governor Baseer Salangi following an IED attack on June 21, 2011, sits at a government compound. Source: Pajhwok News. Shortly before lunchtime on June 21, a young man ...

PARWAN, Afghanistan -- Just months ago, it was billed as "Taliban-free." How, then, did Afghanistan's Parwan Province come to be the target of international condemnation over the public execution of a ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. forces conducted a raid to destroy a cache of weapons north of Kabul early Monday, a U.S. army spokesman said, giving rare details of unilateral activity in Afghanistan.

KABUL — It would be easy to take Ghullam Sarwar Jamili at his word — that this smiling and dedicated family man has survived a hard life swept up in his country's endless travails. Behind his glasses, ...