The Taliban urged Washington to uphold its part of the US-Taliban agreement signed a year ago Sunday and stated the release of remaining prisoners and end...
German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer said if the security situation worsens drastically in Afghanistan, Germany would not rule out sending in more troops if necessary. Speaking...
The Taliban have strongly rejected a postponement of a troops withdrawal from Afghanistan and said their “fighters will never agree” to this. In an interview with...
International troops plan to stay in Afghanistan beyond the May deadline envisaged by the insurgent Taliban’s deal with the United States, four senior NATO officials told...
Georgia sent out a 100-member regiment for a peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan, local news agencies reported. Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili told troops before they left that...
Former NATO’s Senior Civilian Representative to Afghanistan, Sir Nicholas Kay, has warned that withdrawing international troops without a full Taliban commitment to peace would be “rash”. In...
Germany’s parliament has granted a one-year extension of its military mandate for Afghanistan, allowing the country’s first major post-war troop deployment to continue until March 31, 2020. The approval...
The UK Army will deploy 440 more troops to Afghanistan to train the Afghan National Security Forces. Laura Kuenssberg, the BBC’s political editor said, “Whispers tonight...
The U.S. has pulled out dozens of its troops along with weapons and equipment from Iraq and shifted them to Afghanistan in the past weeks, the Associated...
Five consecutive mine blasts occurred in southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan on Sunday, local officials said. The explosions happened late on Sunday at around 07:30 pm...
The international troops’ convoy has come under suicide attack in Lise Barek area of Dand district of Kandahar province, local officials said. The spokesman of Kandahar...
NATO allies are set to agree on Thursday to increase by some 3,000 personnel the troop levels for the alliance’s Afghanistan training mission, NATO Secretary-General Jens...
Afghanistan needs additional U.S. forces for ending the ongoing war in the country that now on its 16th year, the Defense Ministry said Saturday. “We ask...
The United States is still working on the plans and troops’ level for President Donald Trump’s new strategy for Afghanistan, Pentagon Spokesman said Monday. Robert Manning...
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday reacted to “open letter” of the Afghan Taliban to President Donald Trump, as the group reiterates call for the withdrawal...
U.S. and allies pledged to send more troops to support Afghanistan’s hard-pressed military on Thursday but left no details about its numbers, Afghan Acting Defense Minister...
Roughly 300 Marines are en route to Afghanistan to help Afghan troops stop the Taliban from swallowing more of the hard-fought territory for which so many...