(CNN) — Fifteen people were freed from a Taliban prison in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand on Sunday, the international coalition said in a statement. Afghan and coalition forces ...

A former Afghan special forces commando who fought alongside British troops against the Taliban has been rejected by the Home Office for relocation to the UK along with his family. The man, a senior ...

Signaling that the U.S. military expects its mission to continue, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Sunday hailed the launch of the Afghan Army's new special operations corps, declaring that ...

Soldiers and police officers, many in tears, heaved bodies of their comrades from the trucks and laid them on sheets on the ground, side by side on their backs, until there were 20 of them. The dead ...

In Faryab province, 250 miles to the northwest, an isolated Afghan National Army base of 100 soldiers lost more than half its men in a Taliban assault that ended early Sunday. The hardest-hit area was ...

With fighting expected to pick up this spring, Afghanistan's security is heavily dependent on elite forces like the commandos. NPR's Tom Bowman... With The U.S. In The Background, Afghan Commandos ...

Hours after Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a former Afghan commando who worked on behalf of the CIA during wartime, allegedly shot two National Guard troops blocks away from the White House on Nov. 26, I ...