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Taliban Launches Major Attack On Afghan City Of Ghazni, Leaving Civilians Trapped

5:44pm August 13, 2018

NPR's Mary-Louise Kelly speaks with BBC journalist Shoaib Sharifi about the fight to drive Taliban fighters out of the embattled city of Ghazni, Afghanistan.

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Correspondent Reflects On Nearly 17 Years Of War In Afghanistan In 'The Fighters'

5:44pm August 13, 2018

Pulitzer Prize-winning author C.J. Chivers speaks with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly about his new book, The Fighters: Americans in Combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Afghan volunteers carry an injured woman on a stretcher to a hospital in Ghazni province on Sunday. The Taliban assault on the city of Ghazni has resulted in intense gun battles and hundreds of casualties.

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Surprise Taliban Attack Leads To Days Of Fighting, Hundreds Of Deaths

2:10pm August 13, 2018

by Bill Chappell

Afghanistan's military was launching a counteroffensive aimed at flushing militants out of the strategically vital city of Ghazni, which was attacked on Friday.

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3 Czech NATO Service Members Killed In Afghanistan

7:34am August 05, 2018

by James Doubek

Three Czech service members were killed by a suicide bombing in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, NATO said. In addition, one American service member and two Afghan soldiers were injured.

U.S.-Taliban Talks: Afghan Government Wasn't In The Room, Crocker Says

7:55am August 03, 2018

The U.S. has reportedly met with Taliban officials to discuss the possibility of peace talks to end the war in Afghanistan. Rachel Martin talks to former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker.

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Afghan policemen stand guard outside the Imam Zaman Shiite mosque the day after a suicide attack during Friday evening prayers last October.

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Afghanistan Update: Government 'Lawless, Weak And Dysfunctional'

4:34pm July 31, 2018

by Cameron Jenkins

A U.S. government watchdog says the Afghan government "may be going back to 'business as usual' and 'simply checking the box' when it comes to fighting corruption."

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Key Taliban Figures Killed In Afghan Army Operation

7:48am July 24, 2018

by Scott Neuman

In the attack on Sunday, a dozen Taliban militants were reportedly killed, including the militant group's shadow governor for Kapisa province.

'Drop By Drop': How Poetry Helped The U.S. Military In Afghanistan

7:24am July 16, 2018

From the Rough Translation podcast, the story of an Air Force captain who seemed to hold the key to turning around the Afghan war, and why everything went wrong.

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U.S. Service Member Killed In 'Apparent Insider Attack' In Afghanistan, NATO Says

5:46pm July 07, 2018

by Nicole Hernandez

A U.S. service member was killed and two others wounded Saturday. Details of the incident, which is under investigation, were not immediately released.

U.S. service members walk off a helicopter on the runway at Camp Bost in Helmand Province, Afghanistan on September 11, 2017.

Pentagon Questioned Over Blackout On War Zone Troop Numbers

10:49am July 03, 2018

by David Welna

The Pentagon has stopped reporting troop levels for Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria following President Trump's declaration that the U.S. would not talk about troop numbers in Afghanistan.

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