The latest escalation in violence comes after months of tit-for-tat clashes over Islamabad’s accusation that Kabul harbours militants carrying out attacks inside Pakistan. But their issues are much ...

What went wrong with the war in Afghanistan? It's a question that scholars, policymakers, service members, veterans and everyday Americans have debated over the course of the 20-year conflict, a ...

A column of U.S. Marines advance to a security position after seizing a Taliban forward-operating base in an unspecified location in Afghanistan on Nov. 25, 2001. U.S. Marine photo by Sgt. Joseph ...

A Times investigation uncovered a brutal campaign enacted by U.S.-backed forces during the war in Afghanistan. By Azam Ahmed I covered the war in Afghanistan and went back after the Taliban took over.

Tension had been brewing since February 21 when Pakistan launched airstrikes on Afghanistan's Nangarhar, Paktika, and Khost ...

Rashid, Ahmed, Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia (United Kingdom: Penguin Publishing Group, 2008). Salt, Alexander, ...

At the peak of the war in Afghanistan, following President Barack Obama's troop surge in late 2009, about 110,000 service members were deployed to the country at a given time. At least some of those ...

This is a special edition of the Pentagon Rundown in which we will look at Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise that the latest Defense Department review of the U.S. military’s withdrawal from ...

An interview with Paul D. Miller about his upcoming book “Choosing Defeat: The Twenty-Year Saga of How America Lost Afghanistan.” In an upcoming book, slated for release in October 2025, Paul D.

The War on Terror has pervaded socio-political rhetoric in the United States for over two decades, intermingling itself over time with the Western democratic ideal ...