This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Global edition, Oct. 14, 2013. It is republished unedited in its original form. ZABUL PROVINCE, Afghanistan — The great Prussian military thinker ...

The Taliban killed at least 10 people and wounded 90 Thursday after a car bomb targeting an intelligence services building exploded and destroyed a nearby hospital in the southern Afghan city of Qalat ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- U.S. fighter jets and helicopters bombed suspected Taliban hideouts Thursday in Afghanistan's rugged southern mountains following intense battles between the insurgents and ...

Zabul isn’t a major opium-growing province–it’s too high up, averaging between 5,000 and 7,000 feet–but it is a major transshipment route. In just one ten-day period in January, Zabul police seized ...

Zabul province, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2013: Spc. Stephen Hamby lights up a cigarette before moving out. From left, Capt. Brandon Fuhrman, Pfc. Jackson Nelson, Spc. Hamby and Sgt. 1st Class Justin ...

At least 20 Afghan policemen were killed early Sunday when Taliban fighters stormed multiple security outposts in the volatile southern province of Zabul, officials said, as the insurgents escalate ...

U.S. Army Spc. Daishon Newton, assigned to the Zabul Provincial Reconstruction Team security force, provides security as members of the team make their way to a canal project site in Zabul province, ...

An Afghan official says five people were killed in a suicide truck bombing, which also wounded more than 60 in the capital of the southern province of Zabul. Zabul police chief Mirwais Noorzai said on ...

Nineteen of 31 Shiite Muslim men abducted in Afghanistan in February were released Monday in exchange for scores of Uzbek militant fighters held in government prisons, officials said. Masked gunmen ...

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Afghanistan reported at 12:00 GMT on Tuesday. * denotes new or undated items * FARAH - An Italian soldier was killed and three were wounded when ...