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An Afghan District Rocked by the Earthquake Has Now Been Overrun by the Taliban
Taliban fighters seized control of the district capital of Darqand in Takhar province, on the border with Tajikistan in the early hours of Wednesday, continuing a campaign that has intensified across the country this year.
The Taliban Is Fighting for Control of an Opium-Rich Provincial Capital in Afghanistan
The fighting near the city of Lashkar Gah comes three weeks after the Taliban scored a major victory by briefly capturing the northern city of Kunduz.
US Operatives Allegedly Knew Kunduz Site Was a Hospital Before Launching Deadly Airstrikes
Special operations analysts reportedly suspected that a Pakistani operative was using the facility as a Taliban control center and to house heavy weapons.
Obama Is Now Halting US Troop Withdrawal from Afghanistan
The current force of 9,800 US soldiers in Afghanistan will be retained through most of 2016 before the levels are trimmed, it was revealed today.
What Happened at the Kunduz Hospital Airstrikes? Details Are Starting to Emerge
The details of the airstrike on the MSF hospital remain under investigation, but there are a number of details about the airstrike and the process for its approval that are known.
The Pentagon Keeps Changing Its Story About the Hospital it Bombed in Afghanistan
The general in charge of coalition forces in Afghanistan once again tweaked the US version of events when he testified before the Senate Armed Forces Committee on Tuesday.
'Abhorrent Attack' on Afghan Hospital Was a War Crime, Says MSF
The NGO Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has repeated its demands for a full independent inquiry into the bombing of one of its hospitals in Afghanistan on Saturday, apparently led by the US.
Death Toll in Hospital Bombing Climbs to 22 as MSF Demands Answers
Doctors Without Borders has called for an “independent international body” to investigate the suspected US airstrike, and denied that Taliban fighters were firing from the hospital.
Nurse Describes 'Unspeakable' Horror as Bombs Hit Doctors Without Borders Hospital
A nurse at the trauma center in northern Afghanistan remembers “patients, wounded, crying out, everywhere,” as the bombs fell, killing several of his colleagues.
MSF Says Afghan Hospital Was 'Repeatedly Hit' by Bombs in Prolonged Attack
Doctors Without Borders says an apparent attack by US forces on a hospital in the city of Kunduz killed at least 19 people, including 12 hospital staff members and three children.
19 Dead After Apparent US Airstrike Hits MSF Hospital in Afghanistan
Doctors Without Borders says 37 people were seriously wounded in a preventable bombing at a hospital in Kunduz that was full of staff and patients.
US Military Plane Crash Kills 11 in Afghanistan as Taliban Claim Responsibility
An American military C-130 transport plane has crashed at Jalalabad airfield in Afghanistan, killing all 11 people on board. The US military described the incident as an accident.