KABUL (Reuters) - A controversial scheme that pays and arms Afghans to defend their villages in areas with a strong insurgent presence is likely to be expanded and extended, a senior officer from the ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Suspected Taliban rebels killed two tribal elders who were encouraging participation in elections and shot to death an Afghan militia commander in an ambush, officials said ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 20 -- Gen. Abdurrashid Dostum, a powerful Afghan militia leader, escaped unhurt Thursday from a suicide bomb attack that injured more than 20 people during a prayer gathering ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan is increasingly relying on a “cheap but dangerous” national militia of some 30,000 fighters, some of whom have committed serious abuses in the communities they ...

Federal law enforcement officials on Wednesday arrested yet another Afghan evacuee for allegedly supporting a terrorist group. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents apprehended Jaan Shah ...

KABUL — An Afghan soldier opened fire on NATO soldiers, wounding five of them before fleeing, Western and Afghan officials said Wednesday. NATO officials confirmed the shooting, which they said took ...

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN - NATO and Afghan troops killed 70 suspected militants who attacked a military base in southern Afghanistan, while a roadside blast killed one NATO soldier and wounded eight others, ...