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A series of near-simultaneous attacks blamed on the Taliban have killed dozens of Afghan soldiers in the country's northern Kunduz Province, security forces say.

The Pentagon says the U.S. service member killed in an apparent insider attack in southern Afghanistan was a soldier from California.

U.S. and Afghan Special Forces are completing an operation to clear Islamic State fighters from a remote district in Nangarhar, the eastern province where they have their main stronghold in Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday.

Soldiers from the 1st Security Force Assistance Brigade were shifted from other missions to help.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber targeted a group of Sikhs and Hindus in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, killing at least 12 people.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber struck in Afghanistan's eastern city of Jalalabad on Sunday, killing at least 10 people in the second attack in as many days targeting Taliban fighters, s...

The U.S. military says it will honor a temporary cease-fire with the Taliban announced by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani Thursday, but will continue counterterrorism operations targeting the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and other groups.

"He is still alive. It's very astonishing. Now he needs help," the head of the Russian paratroopers' union, Valery Vostrotin, told the state-run RIA Novosti news agency.

A new report from a government watchdog says the 15-year rebuilding effort has largely failed.

NATO is backing Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's offer of peace talks to the Taliban, embracing what top officials say is an unprecedented opportunity to end the fighting in the insurgency-wracked country.

An Islamic State suicide bomber killed at least 57 people including women and children and wounded 119 outside a voter registration centre in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday in the latest attack on election preparations

Taliban fighters, whom US-led forces spent billions of dollars trying to defeat, are now openly active in 70% of Afghanistan, a BBC study has found.

A series of terror attacks across Afghanistan, particularly in the capital, Kabul, has come at a price for the local economy in addition to damaging the country's infrastructure. Afghan officials say the attacks have resulted in more than $100 million

60 Minutes correspondent Lara Logan has reported from Afghanistan over the last 16 years. But this time, she says, was different.

AFGHANISTAN CARNAGE: As the U.S. ramps up its air war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, terror attacks in the Afghan...

The bombing Saturday came just a week after Taliban militants killed 22 at an international hotel in the city.

A State Department official told the Associated Press of the American deaths and injuries, though it's unknown how many were killed or hurt...

There are reports Afghan security forces have killed a group of gunmen who attacked the Intercontinental Hotel in Kabul. Local media reports that five people were killed when the gunmen stormed the hotel.

Gunmen waged an attack on the Intercontinental Hotel in Afghanistan's capital on Saturday, according to Najib Danis, a spokesman for the country's interior ministry.

Suicide bomb attacks in the Afghan capital, Kabul, have killed at least 40 people and injured some 30 others. The attacks were near a media outlet and a mosque.