The Pentagon will ask the White House next week to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan, a senior official said Thursday. After a steady downsizing of US troop numbers since 2011, US military commanders say they need to strengthen the numbers on the ground allegedly to better support Afghan forces ...
ISIL Takfiri group has claimed responsibility for the attack on a NATO convoy in Kabul on Wednesday. Reuters news agency cited an ISIL statement issued via its Amaq news agency on Wednesday, which said that a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged car as the convoy passed an area near the ...