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A council of clerics for Badakhshan, Ghazni and Nangarhar provinces have been formed based on decrees of the Islamic Emirate’s supreme leader, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.

As 30,000 additional American soldiers are deployed to Afghanistan, the U.S. is also focusing on reintegrating Taliban insurgents into Afghan society. There has been speculation that this new focus is part of a quick-exit strategy for the U.S. While reintegrating as many local Taliban fighters as possible is a vital part of the counterinsurgency strategy, premature negotiations with Taliban leaders based in Pakistan could easily backfire. The Obama Administration must bear in mind that insurgent...

A council of clerics for Badakhshan, Ghazni and Nangarhar provinces have been formed based on decrees of the Islamic Emirate’s supreme leader, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada.

Hats of Afghanistan Afghanistan is an ethnic and cultural crossroads for one of the most historically volatile regions on Earth. This, I think, needs no...

The officer the Pentagon has tasked with overseeing the defueling of the Navy's Red Hill Bulk Fuel Storage Facility has for Hawaii residents in many ways become the face of the Navy.

Vice Adm. John Wade has a mixture of Navy, Army, Marine, Air Force and Coast Guard service members as well as federal civilians and contractors under his command, working to remove 104 million gallons of fuel, which sits just 100 feet above a critical aquifer that most of Oahu relies on for drinking water.

A rare public show of division emerged in the ranks of Afghanistans ruling Taliban after a senior Taliban figure publicly criticized the groups leadership in a speech, accusing some of

Kabul last week rejected the massing of thousands of Daesh or Islamic State militants near the Tajikistan border.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed by the escalating repression of journalists and media in Afghanistan, including arrests, website blocking and, this week, a heavy-handed raid on a TV channel in Kabul. The Taliban government must free the detained journalists and respect press freedom, RSF says.

KABUL (Pajhwok): Security forces have arrested 29 alleged criminals in connection to theft, kidnapping and other crimes in eight provinces of the country, the Ministry