By Sayed Hassib and Charlotte Greenfield KABUL/MAZAR DARA, Afghanistan (Reuters) -Afghanistan airdropped commandos on Wednesday to pull survivors from the rubble of homes in mountainous eastern areas ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Afghan special forces were deployed to Ghazni after the latest attempt by the Taliban to capture an urban centre, with the assault coming as pressure builds on the insurgents to enter peace talks.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members led a team in the Afghanistan war and worked with U.S. and British ...

Aziz’s family was sitting down for an evening meal in their cramped Islamabad hotel room when there was a knock at the door. When his nine-year-old daughter opened it, she was faced with a group of ...