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.
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 expected
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.
Foreign troops have pulled back from Helmand province as their withdrawal from Afghanistan begins, leaving local forces to fight the Taliban.
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.
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.
A US drone aircraft has killed nine suspected militants in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, security officials say.
The ringleader of a rogue US army unit responsible for "thrill kills" of Afghan civilians has been sentenced to life behind bars.
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.
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/ 25 October 2010
The United Kingdom’s armed forces announced it will no longer be able to mount the kind of operations conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Shum Khan was a deaf and dumb man who lived in the remote border hamlet of Malekshay, 7 000ft up in the mountains.
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.
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.
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad meets the Afghans whose fortunes lie in the risky, but lucrative, business of arms dealing.
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/ 24 February 2009
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.
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/ 18 February 2009
US forces killed at least one child, video footage showed on Wednesday, in an air strike in western Afghanistan that police say killed 12 civilians.
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/ 4 February 2009
A senior British officer serving in Afghanistan has been arrested on suspicion of leaking official secrets, the Ministry of Defence said on Wednesday.
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/ 19 December 2008
A lorry load of Christmas turkeys for British troops in Afghanistan on Friday fell victim to a roadside bomb planted by Taliban insurgents.
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/ 15 December 2008
Nato countries are scrambling for alternative routes as far afield as Belarus and Ukraine to supply their forces in Afghanistan.
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/ 26 November 2008
President Hamid Karzai has criticised the US and other foreign countries for creating a ”parallel government” in Afghanistan’s countryside.