Americans are being held in near-solitary confinement by a Taliban counterintelligence unit whose personnel include former detainees from Guantanamo Bay and the US-run Bagram prison.

US President Donald Trump has once again questioned whether NATO allies would “be there” if the United States “ever needed them,” claiming that the alliance’s troops “stayed a little back” from the ...

Taliban on the agenda during visit by Pakistan leader to Afghanistan on Friday (CNN)-- Efforts to reform the Afghan National Police force have been stymied by "corruption and lack of political will," ...

Afghanistan television has broadcast its first three hours of news, featuring a teenage female presenter. In a sign of just how much life has changed since the Taliban retreated last week from Kabul, ...