Afghanistan War
latest news & developments
These Afghans won the visa lottery in 2019 — now they’re stuck in Kabul
Trump’s ban on the visa lottery was ruled to be illegal, but the government says it can’t help hundreds of Afghans who won it for at least another year.
Biden defends US pullout from Afghanistan despite panic in Kabul
In his first public appearance since the Islamist insurgents seized control of the country at the weekend, Biden admitted the Taliban advance had unfolded more quickly than…
South Africans in the crossfire: Why I won’t leave Kabul
South African Mairy Tsigoida narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Taliban, but the Groenewald family were not as fortunate. She tells her story.
After Afghanistan: What next for the troops?
Foreign troops have pulled back from Helmand province as their withdrawal from Afghanistan begins, leaving local forces to fight the Taliban.
US to withdraw from Afghanistan by 2016
The last of the United States military forces will leave Afghanistan by the end of 2016, 15 years after the September 2001 attacks in New York.
Obama: America’s decade of war is over
US President Barack Obama marked Veterans Day by celebrating the fact that America’s decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan is coming to an end.
US drone strike kills nine in Pakistan
A US drone aircraft has killed nine suspected militants in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, security officials say.
‘Thrill kill’ head of rogue US soldiers jailed for life
The ringleader of a rogue US army unit responsible for "thrill kills" of Afghan civilians has been sentenced to life behind bars.
US commander steps down in Afghanistan
General David Petraeus stepped down as United States commander in Afghanistan on Monday after a year at the helm of what is America’s longest war.
UK cuts fire power
The United Kingdom’s armed forces announced it will no longer be able to mount the kind of operations conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan.
CIA paramilitaries’ role in Afghan civilian deaths
Shum Khan was a deaf and dumb man who lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7 000ft up in the mountains.
Reaper drones bring remote control death
They fly at 50 000ft, are virtually invisible and carry a deadly payload of missiles and bombs. Meet the Reaper, a new variety of heavily armed drone.
Turncoat attack a blow to Afghanistan exit
The murder of three soldiers by a renegade Afghan casts a shadow over the UK’s plans to train the local army before withdrawing its own troops.
Trade in guns and drugs that fuels war in Afghanistan
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad meets the Afghans whose fortunes lie in the risky, but lucrative, business of arms dealing.
In the north Afghans battle hunger, not the Taliban
The US decision to send more troops to Afghanistan will mean little to the people of northern Sang-i-Khel village whose fight is against hunger.