Aid for a civil service and police force will directly ... The U. S. launched the war in Afghanistan with two express goals: to destroy Al Qa'eda and dislodge their hosts, the Taliban.

Instead of toppling terrorists, America’s Afghan war has become an ambitious and fruitless effort at “nation-building.” We are mired in a civil war in Afghanistan and are struggling to establish an ...

Many of their members were former Mujahedeen fighters who had been trained in Pakistan during Afghanistan's civil war in the '80s and '90s. They came together with the aim of making Afghanistan an ...

Human Rights Watch has reported on widespread and serious violations of international human rights by all sides in the ongoing civil war in Afghanistan. As the country heads into a period that may ...

Kenneth McKenzie, the commander of U.S. Central Command, will testify before the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday about issues surrounding the end of the Afghanistan war. Thousands of ...

and broader civil society since the 2001 U.S.-led intervention, these advances remain fragile. As Afghanistan transitions to a new presidency and the drawdown of U.S. troops continues through 2016 ...

Daffron Williams, 40, who served on tours of Afghanistan and Iraq ... Williams wrote: “Civil war is here. The only thing that’s missing is bullets. That’s the next step.” ...

and the uneasy tension between fear and hope that defined those days in my home country of Afghanistan. That question took me ...