In 2019, an improvised explosive device ripped through a US Army patrol in Afghanistan, leaving combat cameraman Ian Ives with life-changing injuries. Now a civilian public affairs officer, Ives walks ...
A U.S. soldier near as old as the Afghanistan conflict girds for deployment. Pvt. Hunter Nines is about to join a war nearly as old as he is. The 18-year-old discussed with ABC News his impending ...
During his 2012 re-election campaign, President Barack Obama pledged to "end the war in Afghanistan in 2014." As straightforward as that might sound, disentangling U.S. involvement in Afghanistan ...
ABC's Mike Gudgell on the first Army journalist killed in Afghan war. COMBAT OUTPOST JFM, Afghanistan, July 3, 2010 — -- The Arghandab River runs from the foothills of the Hindu Kush Mountains ...
President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan over Memorial Day weekend to thank the American troops stationed there. He also told them that "by the end of this year, ...
U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), walk as a U.S. Chinook helicopter is seen on the back ground in Shindand, Herat, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Jan ...
The Defense Department accidentally reposted over one thousand photos from the Afghanistan War that had been taken offline in 2021 to hide the identity of Afghans working with U.S. troops. The photos, ...
The direct conflict between Iran and Israel severely impacts Afghanistan, which is struggling with fragile governance, economic crisis, and insecurity under Taliban rule. Iran and Israel have a long ...
For the past four years, the Taliban have intensified their attacks on the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan. The Taliban’s widespread and systematic assault on women’s and girls’ rights ...
In a bold move to counter cross-border terrorism, Pakistan last week reportedly launched targeted military strikes inside Afghanistan. The development marked a significant escalation in Pakistan’s ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio — U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, ...