Russia and Afghanistan's Taliban government reportedly signed a military cooperation pact, solidifying Moscow's growing ...

Afghanistan's water crisis worsened in 2025, the United Nations said in a report, with drought nearly doubling compared to the year before. "Water access deteriorated sharply," the United Nations ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, ...

Texas Rep. Mike McCaul, the Republican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, released a scathing report that took a fine-toothed comb to the military's botched 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal and ...

The United States' 20-year attempt to stand up democracy in Afghanistan descended into a cesspool of corruption and squandered as much as $29.2 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in pursuit of ...

In 2022, after U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban regained power, Afghans reported an average life satisfaction of 1.28 on a scale from 0 to 10—or from the worst possible life to ...

As Washington argues about the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal — pointing fingers across the aisle and debating whether to blame President Biden or former President Trump — the heart of the catastrophe ...

In the weeks before it happened, Elizabeth Peña heard murmurs from local refugee nonprofits that the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan could shutter. Peña, who at the time was a congressional aide ...

The father of a Marine killed during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was surprised by the scope of failure by the Biden administration after a scathing House GOP report was released Sunday. The ...