Tag: Afghanistan

BEIRUT, LEBANON (9:40 A.M.) - CNN quoted a Pentagon official as saying on Friday evening that the aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Nimitz, had moved to the Gulf region with other warships. ...

The United States Department of Defense anticipates that President Donald Trump will issue an order as early as this week to cut the number of troops in Afghanistan and Iraq ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (8:20 P.M.) - An Armenian security official accused Azerbaijan of transporting "terrorist mercenaries" and arms shipments to its territory from Afghanistan, as evidenced by the fact that an ...

Twenty-five Afghan policemen have been killed while attempting to escape the Taliban siege in the central province of Uruzgan, a source in the Gizab district told Sputnik on Monday. The ...

Ten police officers and 15 Taliban members were killed in clashes that are underway between the security forces and the militant group for the fourth day in a row in ...

A twin airstrike on a Taliban base in the northeastern Afghan province of Kunduz has left 30 civilian casualties, a Sputnik correspondent reported on Saturday. "One airstrike was carried out ...

The Taliban Islamist movement has attacked three police posts in the eastern province of Nangarhar, leaving eight officers killed and four more injured, a source told Sputnik on Thursday. The ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (3:20 P.M.) - The Iranian media reported on Saturday that a large amount of drugs had been seized in Khorasan Province, which is on the Afghan border. The ...

BEIRUT, LEBANON (5:45 P.M.) - Five missiles hit a U.S. airbase in Afghanistan on Thursday, but there were no reports of human casualties, security officials said in the troubled country. ...

In what's already being hailed as a defining and explosive "Pentagon papers" moment, a cache of previously classified documents obtained by The Washington Post show top Pentagon leaders continuously lied ...