Afghanistan to release three Talibans in exchange of the American and Australian captives Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani announced in a live broadcast through television on Tuesday that they will release two senior Taliban commanders and a leader of the Haqqani militant group in exchange of the release of American and Australian professors.
President Barack Obama has gone back on his plan to pull a majority of troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year, saying Thursday that the U.S. would maintain a military presence in the country until at least 2017.
The Pentagon on Sunday promised a full investigation of a suspected U.S. air strike that killed 22 people in an Afghan hospital run by the medical aid group Doctors Without Borders, or Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
A former prisoner of war in Afghanistan who was swapped for five Taliban leaders in 2014 will make an appearance at a preliminary hearing on Thursday a military court determines whether he should face a court-martial over charges of desertion and misbehavior.
The U.S. military has charged Sgt. Bergdahl with desertion after he left his post in Afghanistan five years, leading to his capture by terrorists. He could face life in prison, if convicted.
The president has agreed to maintain less than 10,000 troops in the country through 2015, after his Afghan opposite asked for more flexibility in the U.S. troop withdrawal schedule.
The collapse of the American-backed government in Yemen took the U.S. intelligence community by surprise, the Obama administration's senior counterterrorism official admitted on Thursday as he testified before Congress.
A former Taliban commander who recently defected from the fundamentalist movement to join the ISIS terror group has been killed in southern Afghanistan.
On Monday, speaking inside a New Jersey airplane hangar to 3,000 troops, President Barack Obama gave his assessment of the Islamic terrorists in Syria and Iraq, stating boldly that the U.S. is "hammering these terrorists."
More American troops will stay behind in Afghanistan next year than originally expected. More American troops will stay behind in Afghanistan next year than originally expected.
A suicide bomber targeted a volleyball tournament in rural Afghanistan, killing many civilians, mostly young men and children. Both the Afghan government and the U.N. have condemned the attack.
Change in power could lead to security pact with U.S. Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was sworn in as president of Afghanistan on Monday in the first transfer of power in that country since the removal of the Taliban.
