U.S. service members in Kabul took a moment’s respite from the wave of terrorist bombings in Afghanistan in recent months to enjoy a lunchtime ceremony in honor of America’s 242nd Independence Day on the Fourth of July.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A bomb blast inside a mosque in eastern Afghanistan that was being used as a voter registration center killed at least 12 people and wounded 33, officials said.
WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis suggested this week that the Afghan Taliban has suffered military setbacks in recent months.
Contents: Nine journalists killed by suicide bombers in Kabul Afghanistan; The Taliban announces the Spring fighting season, codename Al Khandaq; Analysts guess at why Afghanistan’s security situation keeps deteriorating
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) claimed responsibility for a heinous attack in the Afghan capital of Kabul Wednesday that killed up to 33 and injured 65 others while they were celebrating the Persian new year.
Contents: Massive earth fissure suddenly opens up in mid-Kenya, signaling an eventual split in all of Africa; How China would lose a war with the United States; ISIS-linked terrorists in Afghanistan kill 32 in bombing of Shia Shrine in Kabul
The Taliban has expressed a desire to have discussions with the U.S., instead of Kabul, about ending the nearly 17-year war in Afghanistan, despite Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s historic peace offer.
The United States has deemed protecting the sprawling Afghan capital of Kabul the “main effort” of an intensified U.S.-backed offensive following a series of high-profile terrorist assaults at the hands of the Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), revealed the top commander of American and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan has provided what it claims to be proof to Islamabad that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and Taliban attackers who killed about 200 people on Afghan soil over the last month trained and planned the assaults in Pakistan.
President Donald Trump had sharp words for the Taliban on Monday after the latest terrorist attacks in Afghanistan.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has claimed responsibility for an attack on an army post near a military academy in the Afghan capital of Kabul that reportedly killed 11 soldiers and wounded 16 others.
Contents: New massive Taliban attack in Kabul Afghanistan kills 95; Trump doubles down on war on Taliban in Afghanistan
On Sunday, Pope Francis denounced the “terrible terrorist massacre” carried out by Islamic militants of the Taliban in the Afghan capital of Kabul Saturday. After his usual midday prayer of the Angelus in the Vatican Sunday, the Pope turned to
An ambulance laden with explosives blew up near a security checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, killing at least 95 and injuring at least 150 more, officials said.
The Pakistani government has rejected Afghan officials’ claim that the Haqqani Network, considered one of the most dangerous Pakistan-based terrorist groups, carried out an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan this weekend.
Contents: Multiple Afghanistan Taliban terror attacks leave ‘victory’ plans in tatters; Sunday’s attacks throw new doubts into claims of ‘victory’ in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan (AFP) — As gunmen went on a nighttime rampage through Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel on Saturday, Aziz Tayeb posted a desperate plea on Facebook — “Pray for me. I may die.”
KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban assault on the Intercontinental Hotel in Afghanistan’s capital killed at least six people, including a foreigner, and pinned security forces down for more than 13 hours before the last attacker was killed on Sunday, with the casualty toll expected to rise.
(AFP) Four gunmen attacked Kabul’s luxury Intercontinental Hotel on Saturday and started shooting at guests, an Afghan official said, in the latest violence to strike the Afghan capital.
The supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban rubber stamped Pakistan-based “exploratory talks” on re-engaging in peace negotiations to end the more than 16-year-old war in Afghanistan, reports Reuters, signaling that the jihadist group’s battlefield successes in days of yore may be gone.
The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan has claimed responsibility for targeting a Shiite cultural center in Kabul with bombs, killing more than 40 people and wounding over 80 others.
Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday to visit President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah, as well as United States military troops stationed there, revealing his trip only after five and a half hours on the ground in the country.
May Jeong’s Friday feature on Afghanistan for Politico opens with a telling vingette of the scene in Kabul’s U.S. Embassy on election day, 2016, mid-day in the far-off Afghan capital.
KABUL, Afghanistan — A strong smell of blood and flesh permeated the Imam Zaman mosque in Kabul on Saturday hours after dozens of Shiite worshipers were slaughtered by a suicide bomber during evening prayers.
Pakistan’s ongoing plan to build a fence to prevent cross-border jihadi attacks along most of the porous international boundary it shares with Afghanistan continues to dismay U.S-backed Kabul, which claims the barrier would break up families and friends.
A new report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) found the $70 billion American campaign to secure Afghanistan deeply flawed in several crucial respects, particularly its failure to adequately train local police and military forces to secure the country against a resurgent Taliban and invading Islamic State.
What remains is for the U.S. to fight for its own strategic priorities in Afghanistan. Anything less, or more, will be unsustainable, militarily and politically.
Contents: Massive car bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, targets Hazaras, kills 36; Brief recent generational history of Afghanistan; Kabul bombing puts America’s Afghanistan policy into further confusion
A Taliban jihadist killed about 29 people and wounded 40 others in a suicide car bombing Monday that targeted Afghan intelligence staff onboard a bus in the country’s capital of Kabul, but it ended up murdering and wounding civilians, including women and children.
A dramatic drop in U.S.-funded opium eradication efforts in Afghanistan over the last few years is fueling a growing heroin addiction problem afflicting tens of thousands of women and some children in the war-ravaged country, reports the Washington Post (WaPo).
Unknown terrorists detonated a suspected bomb in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat, which sits along the country’s border with Iran, as people made their way to an ancient mosque for prayers Tuesday, killing up to ten people and wounding at least 15 others.
Contents: Three suicide bombers target Kabul Afghanistan funeral for previous victims; Afghanistan seethes with renewed anger over the attacks
Contents: Five people killed in clashes with police in anti-government rally in Kabul, Afghanistan; Kabul bombing brings back memories of bloody 1990s Afghan civil war
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has issued an order for the execution of 11 death row jihadists from the Taliban and its ally, the al-Qaeda-linked Haqqani Network, following the deadly attack in Kabul.
Contents: Massive terror explosion in Kabul, Afghanistan, the largest in years; Afghans blame Pakistan and the Taliban-linked Haqqani network; Afghanistan situation deteriorates, as US considers sending more troops
A massive suicide car bomb explosion devastated a highly secure diplomatic area in the Afghan capital of Kabul only days into the holy month of Ramadan, killing about 90 and injuring up to an estimated 463 others, including 11 Americans.
Taliban jihadists in Afghanistan, in anticipation of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, massacred 25 Afghan policemen in the turbulent southern part of the country during the weekend. They also executed a German aid worker and decapitated her Afghan guard in the nation’s capital of Kabul.
KABUL (AFP) – A German aid worker and an Afghan guard were killed and a Finnish woman kidnapped as gunmen stormed an international guest house in central Kabul, officials said Sunday. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the
On Thursday, a Defense Department official told the Senate that the Pentagon has nearly completed its review of U.S. war plans in Afghanistan and will offer a set of recommendations to President Donald Trump next week.
The United States, as the “biggest stakeholder” in the ongoing war in Afghanistan, must be involved in the Russia-initiated discussions to negotiate peace between Kabul and the Afghan Taliban, according to Pakistan.
