The Taliban overran a base in northern Afghanistan, killing 17 soldiers while Afghan forces battled the insurgents for the fifth straight day in the eastern provincial capital of Ghazni on Tuesday, trying to flush them out of the city’s outskirts, officials said.
Read moreFour days of ferocious fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban over a key provincial capital has claimed the lives of about 100 Afghan policemen and soldiers and at least 20 civilians, the defense minister said Monday.
Read moreThe Taliban tried to overrun a provincial capital in Afghanistan early on Friday, hiding inside homes before slipping into city streets in the night to attack security forces and killing at least 14 policemen before being pushed back, officials said.
Read moreA U.S. drone strike in northeastern Kunar province killed Pakistan Taliban chief Mullah Fazlullah, the insurgent leader who ordered the assassination of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai, an Afghan Defense Ministry spokesman said Friday.
Read moreForced to wait years for the visas they were promised in exchange for assisting U.S. war efforts, five Afghan and Iraqi nationals say in a federal class action that their lives and their families’ safety are at stake.
Read moreAfter a 15-day federal trial wrapped up Monday, a panel of jurors will now determine whether five former military contractors were wrongly fired for reporting supervisors’ breaches of security at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
Read moreA federal court in Colorado heard the opening remarks Monday in a 14-day trial that will determine whether five former-military contractors were wrongly fired for reporting supervisors’ breaches of security at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
Read moreWhen assessing a suspected war criminal’s application for asylum, the EU’s highest court ruled Wednesday that member states must make case-by-case threat determinations.
Read moreSince the International Criminal Court began collecting material three months ago for a possible war crimes case involving Afghanistan, it has gotten a staggering 1.17 million statements from Afghans who say they were victims.
Read moreThe number of civilians killed and wounded in the war in Afghanistan declined last year, but the number of deaths from airstrikes was on the rise, according to a new United Nations report released on Thursday.
Read moreIn an abrupt reversal, the U.S. military on Tuesday said it made a mistake when it ordered an independent federal auditor to stop providing the public with information about U.S. war efforts in Afghanistan that help to measure how the 16-year-old stalemated war is going.
Read moreCanadian Joshua Boyle, his American wife and their children endured a long captivity in Afghanistan before they were rescued last fall and returned to Canada. Now he’s facing 15 charges including sexual assault, forcible confinement and administering a noxious drug.
Read moreDescribing allegations of rape, torture and sexual humiliation, the International Criminal Court’s prosecutor went into unprecedented detail Monday about why U.S. forces and the CIA should face a war-crimes investigation.
Read moreThe prosecutor of the International Criminal Court on Monday asked judges to authorize an investigation in Afghanistan into allegations including rape and torture by the U.S. military and CIA, crimes against humanity by the Taliban and war crimes by Afghan security forces.
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Declining to hand down a prison sentence, a military judge on Friday dishonorably discharged Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl based on desertion and misbehavior before the enemy charges for leaving his base in Afghanistan, triggering a years-long search and divisive prisoner exchange.
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The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court announced plans to investigate crimes against humanity in Afghanistan on Friday, a year after compiling possible war crimes by U.S. forces and the Taliban.
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Military experts testified Tuesday about the intelligence Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl revealed after being returned to the United States in a prisoner exchange, which offered officials a rare glimpse into insurgents in Afghanistan and how they detain hostages.
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Four U.S. soldiers testified Thursday about the search for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after he disappeared in the hills of Afghanistan in 2009, leaving his company in disarray, in the third day of the sentencing phase for desertion and misbehavior before the enemy.
Read moreThe long-anticipated sentencing of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on desertion and misbehavior charges has been delayed until Wednesday after defense attorneys argued that President Donald Trump’s negative view of their client prevents him from receiving a fair sentence.
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