But the most consequential factor behind recent army collapses is external rather than internal: the loss of foreign patrons.

As founding editor of the Democracy team, Griff’s deep expertise will continue to add immense value to the newsroom.

The United States killed its own allies, sabotaging itself in a part of Afghanistan where it never needed to be.

Thousands of people have attended the funeral of a Taliban government minister killed in an Islamic State suicide bombing.

U.N. experts say there has been a slight drop in the production of opium in Myanmar, the world’s biggest source of the ...

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay ...

Mullah Osman Jawhari led one of the deadliest assaults on American forces in Afghanistan, a battle that came to symbolize the ...

Taliban refugee minister Khalil Haqqani has been killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul, the movement's most high profile ...

The explosion struck inside the ministry, killing Khalil Haqqani, officials said. His last official photo showed him at a ...

Mohammed Naeem knew the Kabul street where he and his brothers built matching apartment buildings was too narrow, but he was ...

Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan that left 13 servicemen dead.