On 13 July 2008, a small US and Afghan force at the newly established outpost near the village of Wanat in Nuristan Province found itself at the center of one of the deadliest Taliban assaults of the ...

Some stories can be told only because of journalists who are willing to risk their lives. Award-winning photographer David Gilkey of NPR and Afghan journalist and translator Zabihullah Tamanna were ...

Afghan officials said militants had carried out the attack in which four other people were killed. At the same time, three suspected Taliban fighters were killed in a botched raid on a provincial ...

After the US withdrawal in 2021, evacuees from Afghanistan fled to escape the Taliban, seen here landing at Hamad International Airport in Qatar's capital Doha from Kabul — KARIM JAAFAR Stuck for over ...

News of an attack in Syria that killed two Iowa National Guard soldiers is resurfacing painful memories for a retired sergeant major who lived through a strikingly similar ambush more than a decade ...