The gunfire that pierced the night in Afghanistan’s Zabul Province last September was a troubling surprise to the 20 US soldiers manning a fortified checkpoint near the Pakistan border. Before long, the soldiers would know the terrifying truth: that it was Afghan police officers who, after climbing the wall of a hillside observation post assigned to keeping an eye out for Taliban movement, 

 This week, 21-year-old 2nd Lieutenant Niloofar Rhmani became the Afghan Air Force’s first female pilot to be trained to fly in 30 years.The Kabul City native earned her flying wings in a graduation ceremony at Shindand Air Base in Afghanistan’s western province of Herat, along with 12 other young Afghan graduates of the Undergraduate Pilot Training, run by U.S. Air Force instructors.

Pakistan shares 2,640 km long border with Afghanistan and is one of a closed neighbor of Afghanistan as they share so many demographic things in common-

Senior American and Afghan officials held talks on Saturday, to try to iron out the details of a key pact signed a year ago that defines the future of the United States' commitment to Afghanistan.The Strategic Partnership Agreement outlines a set of principles and general commitments for relations between Washington and Kabul after 2014, when foreign combat ...