The Taliban won’t return any of the military equipment left behind by the US troops while exiting Afghanistan in 2021, a person familiar with the matter said, as relations between Kabul and the Donald Trump administration start on a wobbly note.

Trump’s remarks at a Sunday rally in Washington on the eve of his January 20 inauguration have heightened uncertainty regarding his administration’s stance on the crisis-hit South Asian nation

A prisoner swap between the United States and Afghanistan’s Taliban freed two Americans in exchange for a Taliban figure imprisoned for life in California on drug trafficking and terrorism

While the Trump administration swiftly moves to enact more stringent border policy, Afghan nationals at the center of efforts to evacuate those who aided the United States stand to be impacted.

Nearly 1,660 Afghans cleared by the U.S. government to resettle in the U.S., including family members of active-duty U.S. military personnel, are having their flights canceled under President Donald Trump's order suspending U.

Afghans who fled after the Taliban seized power appealed Wednesday (January 22, 2025) to U.S. President Donald Trump to exempt them from an order suspending the relocation of refugees to the United States, some saying they risked their lives to support U.S. troops.

Could it curb rampant fraud, waste, and abuse within military contracting? Will the Pentagon finally pass a financial audit after seven consecutive failed attempts? Might the war in Ukraine finally sputter to an end,

Michael Waltz, President-elect Donald Trump's choice for national security adviser, during a deployment as a Green Beret to Afghanistan’s Tagab Valley in 2006. He was an officer in the National Guard who served in Afghanistan with the 20th Special Forces Group. (Michael Waltz via The Washington Post)

Refugees bound for the U.S. are stuck in transit after the State Department suspended its refugee program late yesterday due to an executive order signed by President Donald Trump on his first day in office.

The move leaves tens of thousands of Afghan refugees at risk days before implementation of the executive order was expected.

Jaws dropped throughout Washington’s National Cathedral when an egomaniacal Episcopal female bishop sabotaged the Inaugural Prayer Service with a left-wing rant from the pulpit about illegal