Former U.S. President George W. Bush, who ordered the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan that drove the Taliban from power, expressed "deep sadness" over the unfolding situation in the country. In a ...

WASHINGTON -- After a mass killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war by the forces of a U.S.-backed warlord during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan, Bush administration ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew up a car packed with explosives near a busy market and a mosque in eastern Afghanistan on Tuesday, killing at least 89 people in the deadliest insurgent ...

The October 7, 2001, invasion of Afghanistan did more than mark the beginning of the “War on Terror.” It also paved way for the introduction of the first mobile ...

The United States’ 2001 invasion of Afghanistan is just the latest in a checkered history of U.S. involvement in the Central Asian country, Afghan experts say. The short version, fully discussed in ...

If Afghanistan had a national motto, it could be: Democracy is dicey and poppies proliferate. Before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, there was a clearly appropriate military response to the terrorist ...

The U.S. has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country ...