Taliban fighters are increasingly targeting Afghan security forces with foreign-made anti-tank missiles, the New York Times reports, an alarming jump in firepower for the militant group that casts ...

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Video shared on social media shows the Taliban sending U.S. military vehicles captured from the former Afghan National Defense and Security Forces along with some ancient Soviet-era tanks to ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — When Taliban fighters rode triumphantly into ... aging but working helicopters and attack aircraft; a dozen tanks; seven Boeing-manufactured drones; and millions upon ...

Unless it’s the wrong Johnny that comes marching home, namely, John Walker Lindh, the reportedly unrepentant ‘American Taliban’ released early from prison Thursday. And it’s not Capt.

Last summer Dutch heavy artillery helped repel a major Taliban assault in southern Afghanistan. Now a Canadian officer is preaching that tanks -- once thought all but useless in Afghanistan -- are ...

Humvees and tanks. Uniformed soldiers marched with light and heavy machine guns, and a motorcycle formation bore the Taliban flag. The Taliban declared Wednesday a national holiday.

Cartoons Saturday's political cartoons include how much to pay for a pardon, medical advice from a brain worm, and a simple solution to the national debt.

When Taliban fighters rode triumphantly into Kabul ... more than a dozen aging but working helicopters and attack aircraft; a dozen tanks; seven Boeing-manufactured drones; and millions upon ...

KABUL (Reuters) - The Taliban urged Afghan soldiers on Thursday to attack Dutch troops serving in the NATO-led Resolute Support mission in retaliation for a contest of cartoons depicting the ...

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