In 2012, after a team member was nearly killed, a Special Forces unit went on a rampage that might have been one of the worst war crimes in recent U.S. history. By Matthieu Aikins and Victor J. Blue ...

I was head of recruitment for women in the Afghan National Police for years, until 2021, when the Taliban returned to power. Building up the Afghan police force and recruiting women was supposed to be ...

A culture of drug-taking and "indiscipline" exists among Afghan nationals working with British troops in Afghanistan, a preliminary inquest hearing into the deaths of five British soldiers has been ...

Welcome to The Azadi Briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that unpacks the key issues in Afghanistan. To subscribe, click here. I'm Abubakar Siddique, a senior correspondent at RFE/RL's Radio Azadi. Here's ...

KABUL (Reuters) - On a dusty shooting range still dotted with rusting husks of Soviet tanks, Afghanistan police recruits fire off three machine-gun rounds, stop, advance, and then fire at the targets ...

Taliban authorities have threatened Afghan women who had served in the police under the previous government, adding to the risks they face from their families who opposed their work. Afghan ...

Canadian troops in Afghanistan fired no warning shots and gave no medical attention to a man they shot and killed in a taxi this week, the man's family says. Nasrat Ali Hassan was buried Thursday in ...

Army Major Greg Escobar served as an operations officer in Afghanistan in 2010 and 2011, training Afghan police in Kunar province for the first half of his deployment, and Afghan troops in Paktika ...

"It was impressed upon the Afghan side that Pakistan reserves the right to respond decisively against the perpetrators of ...