In a combative hearing, no Republicans came out against Pete Hegseth as he made his case to overhaul the Pentagon.

He visited the troops in Iraq and Afghanistan as he prepared to leave ... The new vice president, JD Vance, is a recent convert to Catholicism but has largely followed Trump’s shifts in a ...

Americans Ryan Corbett and William W. McKenty III were freed, their families said. The Taliban said Khan Mohammed, an Afghan ...

The first match by the Afghan women’s cricket team is placing the Taliban under additional diplomatic pressure.

Cricketer Firooza Amiri says her team will "represent millions of women in Afghanistan who are denied their rights” when the ...

While security concerns are important, the strategy is not security-centric but pays equal attention to diplomatic, political ...

The head of the World Food Programme in Afghanistan says the agency can only feed half the millions of Afghans in need after cuts in international aid and an impending freeze in US foreign funding.

Ryan Corbett, an American held in Afghanistan since 2022, has been released. Ryan Corbett, an American held in Afghanistan since 2022, has been released from Taliban custody in a prisoner swap ...

Released Afghan was a member of Taliban found guilty of narco-terrorism charges: U.S. DOJ records Ryan Corbett, NGO worker, detained in Afghanistan in 2022, among released Americans: family ...

The Taliban government announced on Tuesday the release by the United States of an Afghan prisoner in exchange for US detainees, saying the deal was brokered by Qatar. "An Afghan fighter Khan ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 22 (Reuters) - An executive order by U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend refugee admissions has magnified the fears of one Afghan American soldier who has long been worried ...

A senior Taliban figure has urged the group's leader to scrap education bans on Afghan women and girls, saying there is no excuse for them, in a rare public rebuke of government policy.