Afghanistan

Leading Afghan women's rights champion, author, lawmaker and presidential hopeful Fawzia Koofi has a revealing anecdote about life as a…

KABUL, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents attacked a compound housing foreigners in the Afghan capital Wednesday, killing seven people, hours after…

WASHINGTON — US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta apologized Wednesday for gruesome, newly revealed photographs that show American soldiers posing with…

BRUSSELS — The US and its NATO allies are readying plans to pull away from the front lines in Afghanistan…

Down a rutted dirt alley in Old Kabul, the "Girl in the green dress" — the subject of AFP's Pulitzer-winning…

Agence France-Presse and the news websites Huffington Post and Politico each won their first Pulitzer Prizes as the prestigious journalism…

KABUL - For Taliban militants and US strategists alike, all roads in this impoverished country of mountain passes, arid deserts…

KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban launched a series of coordinated attacks on at least seven sites across the Afghan capital…

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Residents of an Afghan village near where an American soldier is alleged to have killed 16 civilians…

KABUL, Afghanistan — Charges against an American soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan civilians are expected to be filed within…