Afghanistan’s Islamic army also says it will kill any non-Muslim seeking converts. The supreme leader of Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban militia warned on January 8 that his regime will enforce the death ...

NPR's Jacki Lyden reports from Kabul that more British soldiers are on their way to the city to join a growing international peacekeeping force in Afghanistan. Members of the Northern Alliance faction ...

WASHINGTON -- More U.S. commandos have been put on the ground in Afghanistan to help in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, the Pentagon said Monday. And American planes pounded Taliban front lines just ...

I am an international student of Canadian citizenship. However, I am also the daughter of an Afghani Muslim mother and an Eastern Orthodox father. When I was three years old, I moved to Toronto, and I ...

With events in Afghanistan rapidly unfolding, U.N. Security Council members unanimously approved a resolution Wednesday warning anti-Taliban forces in Afghanistan against revenge killings and ...

The Pentagon has identified the three soldiers killed in a friendly fire incident north of Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Dec. 5. Master Sergeant Jefferson Donald Davis, 39, of Tennessee, Sergeant First ...

NPR's Scott Horsley reports on a briefing by U.S. Central Command in Florida on Tuesday. The war is far from over, according to U.S. military officials. Pakistan is tightening security at crossings ...

In 2001, less than a month after the 9-11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush announced the beginning of American military action against Afghanistan’s Taliban regime. The war began with broad ...

This report documents two massacres committed by Taliban forces in the central highlands of Afghanistan, in January 2001 and May 2000. In both cases the victims were primarily Hazaras, a Shia Muslim ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants ambushed and killed six U.S. troops walking in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan — the most lethal attack of the year. The deaths made 2007 the deadliest for the U.S.

Relief and aid organizations say dropping food while dropping with bombs is dangerous. And Australia’s PM gets attacked for trying to defend Shelter Now workers. Similar arguments appear in today’s ...