WASHINGTON -- About 100 U.S. commandos carried out a secretive ground assault in the Taliban stronghold of southern Afghanistan, opening a new phase of the war on terrorism after nearly two weeks of ...

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 ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban forces sealed off Kabul’s airport Saturday to most Afghans hoping for evacuation, as the U.S. and its allies wound down a chaotic airlift that will end their troops’ two ...

KHOST PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- Night after night, commandos in U.S. Chinook helicopters descend into remote Afghan villages, wielding M-4 rifles as they swarm Taliban compounds. Such raids began in ...

Elite Afghan commandos – who worked closely with British intelligence services – and their families face grave danger after the major Ministry of Defence (MoD) data leak, The i Paper has been told. It ...

(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 ...

Afghan commandos are being airdropped into remote areas near the Pakistan border to aid earthquake rescue efforts. Taliban authorities in Afghanistan say the 6.0-magnitude quake on August 31 and ...

KABUL, Afghanistan The last U.S. commando still missing in Afghanistan is being held by the Taliban and rebel leaders have decided to kill him, a purported spokesman for the group said Thursday. The ...

WASHINGTON - In the first confirmed face-to-face fighting of the war against terrorism, U.S. commandos staged a daring raid into a command compound of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, injuring or ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - The ruling Taliban branded America's first commando strikes of the war against terrorism a failure Saturday, and a senior militia commander said Americans are too soft for a ...