The Afghan national who has been charged with shooting two members of the West Virginia National Guard this week was reportedly a member of the elite Afghan "Zero Unit" forces backed by the CIA - with ...

A former Afghan special forces commando who fought alongside British troops against the Taliban has been rejected by the Home Office for relocation to the UK along with his family. The man, a senior ...

(CNN) — Fifteen people were freed from a Taliban prison in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand on Sunday, the international coalition said in a statement. Afghan and coalition forces ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The suspect in the shooting of two National Guard members led a team in the Afghanistan war and worked with U.S. and British ...

Britain has approved resettlement for nearly 1,000 former Afghan special forces personnel after reviewing previously rejected immigration and protection cases.

Afghan special forces were deployed to Ghazni after the latest attempt by the Taliban to capture an urban centre, with the assault coming as pressure builds on the insurgents to enter peace talks.

With fighting expected to pick up this spring, Afghanistan's security is heavily dependent on elite forces like the commandos. NPR's Tom Bowman... With The U.S. In The Background, Afghan Commandos ...

Hours after Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a former Afghan commando who worked on behalf of the CIA during wartime, allegedly shot two National Guard troops blocks away from the White House on Nov. 26, I ...

Signaling that the U.S. military expects its mission to continue, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Sunday hailed the launch of the Afghan Army's new special operations corps, declaring that ...

Soldiers and police officers, many in tears, heaved bodies of their comrades from the trucks and laid them on sheets on the ground, side by side on their backs, until there were 20 of them. The dead ...