KABUL, Afghanistan -- Anti-Taliban fighters battled the hard-line militia Thursday on the outskirts of Kandahar, the ousted regime's last bastion, a key commander said. The Taliban's supreme leader ...

The Taliban eulogized Mullah Saif ur Rahman Mansoor, its commander who led both Taliban and Al Qaeda fighters against U.S. forces at the battle of Shahi Kot in Paktia province in 2002. The celebration ...

Associated Press WriterKABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- Tribal fighters battled Taliban forces near the airport at Kandahar on Friday, as they closed in on the Taliban's last stronghold in Afghanistan. U.S.

ZARD KAMAR, Afghanistan, Oct. 10 -- Armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles and a grenade launcher, a dozen fighters of Afghanistan's anti-Taliban opposition crept forward in single file beside a mud ...

The Taliban publicly executed a convicted murderer in a packed sports stadium for his role in a gun attack that left 10 people dead. The man, identified as Mangal, was executed in front of a crowd at ...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) -- A U.S. soldier was shot and killed in a gunbattle Friday with Taliban fighters in Afghanistan's eastern Paktika province, a U.S. military spokesman said. The soldier was ...

GARMSER, Afghanistan (Reuters) - British Marines attacked a Taliban-held valley in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday but pulled back after a ferocious counterattack that triggered air strikes and ...

Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has opened up about her mental health struggles, revealing that a marijuana session with friends at the University of Oxford brought back painful memories of ...