
At least 10 pro-government Afghan forces were killed in fierce overnight fighting after their checkpoint came under attack from Taliban fighters in northern Afghanistan, officials said Friday. The attack, many of which work with overstretched security forces, came as violence surges across the country despite peace talks between the warring ...

US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin might revise former President Donald Trump’s decision to scale down troops in Afghanistan and Iran, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. According to the report, citing Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, the revision might go both upward and downward, depending on Austin’s assessment of ...