He was a commander of the third battalion at Afghanistan's Hazrat Muaz bin Jabal National Military Academy and a resident of Wardak province. The identification follows a pattern of Afghan ...

The Taliban commander was responsible for the Jaghato district in Afghanistan’s Wardak Province, court documents state. He had over 1,000 troops under his command, who he had conduct attacks on ...

A former commander in the Taliban has pleaded guilty to taking an American journalist and two Afghan nationals hostage in ...

a commander at Afghanistan's Hazrat Muaz bin Jabal National Military Academy, killed on February 28. Defense experts welcomed the growing local resistance against terrorism but raised concerns ...

A suspected Daesh-linked militant commander has been killed in an airstrike by Afghan military forces in the country’s southern province of Helmand, officials say. Hafiz Waheed, a successor to ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN)-- Gunmen Tuesday seized ... were pulled from their car in Nangarhar province, said Hazarat Ali, a lawmaker who represents the area. Security forces have been deployed ...

Corps Commander Peshawar, Lt. Gen. Nazir Ahmed Butt visited forward areas of Bajaur Agency on Pak- Afghan border on Tuesday. During the visit, he was briefed on cross border attack attempt by ...

A former Taliban commander has pleaded guilty to providing support for attacks that killed American soldiers and for key roles in the 2008 gunpoint kidnapping of a reporter for The New York Times and ...

A former commander in the Taliban has pleaded guilty to taking an American journalist and two Afghan nationals hostage in Afghanistan and Pakistan in 2008 and 2009, the U.S. Justice Department ...