According to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Long War Journal real-time map of control, the Taliban now control 242 of Afghanistan's 407 districts—almost 60 percent—with another 100 ...

Afghanistan has suffered through long decades of war; conflict with the Soviet Union, civil war and 13 years of a U.S.-led NATO combat mission. Among the political, economic and cultural impacts ...

Secret United Nations maps reveal security is deteriorating in parts of Afghanistan despite White House assurances its war strategy is working. The maps reveal fighting had worsened in 16 ...

Over the past few days, the Taliban has taken 26 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals ... the pullout from the country after 20 years of war. At least 244,000 people have been internally ...

President Donald Trump bragged during a meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan this week that he could “win” the war in Afghanistan “in a week” if he wanted to. "Afghanistan ...

The combination of light ground forces and overwhelming airpower has become the dominant doctrine of war for the US in Afghanistan. The result has been large numbers of civilian casualties ...

Over the last week, I have been watching the Taliban sweep across the map of northern Afghanistan, capturing places that I first visited in 2001 at the beginning of the US-backed war.Taliban ...

It also shares a small border with China. ( View map .) In 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in order to prop up a communist government. The war dragged on for 10 years, with the United States ...

“The Hidden War.” On Borovik’s lap was a weathered map from the 1950s, the same map a British journalist and his family had used three decades earlier while they traveled across Afghanistan ...

Afghanistan, where more than 800,000 U.S. troops fought over four presidencies to ensure it wasn't a terrorist plotting ground, could be the site of the next war on terrorism. But this time ...