Eight Afghan soldiers were killed on Tuesday while repelling a fierce Taliban attack on Kunduz, a strategic city in northern Afghanistan that had briefly fallen to the militants twice in the past, ...

KABUL — Hiding in her basement, a Kunduz radio presenter was paralyzed with fear when the Taliban came looking for her as they conducted house-to-house searches for working women after storming the ...

Fighting flared in eastern Afghanistan Monday as Taliban insurgents threatened to storm another provincial capital, two weeks after their lightning capture of northern Kunduz city which marked their ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Taliban captured the strategic northern Afghan city of Kunduz on Monday in a multipronged attack involving hundreds of fighters, the first time the insurgents have seized a ...

Celebrations marking the third year since the U.S. withdrawal are amplifying a divide in Afghanistan over what principles it should be governed by. By Christina Goldbaum and Yaqoob Akbary Reporting ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents entered the southeastern Afghan city of Ghazni before dawn Friday, and within hours they claimed to have much of the provincial capital under their control. If ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The Taliban stormed into Tarin Kot on Thursday, triggering heavy fighting around government buildings as panicked residents scrambled to flee the capital of southern Uruzgan ...

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, Nov. 10 -- When Afghan rebels came racing on horseback and foot into the ancient city of Mazar-e Sharif yesterday, they suddenly discovered how quickly Taliban fighters had ...

KHANABAD, Afghanistan, Nov. 25 -- Northern Alliance troops entered the besieged city of Kunduz today, seizing partial control of the Taliban's last known stronghold in northern Afghanistan. Some ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities carried out a public execution at a stadium in the eastern city of Khost on Tuesday, putting to death a man who the country’s Supreme Court said ...