KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Afghan judge on Tuesday sentenced 11 policemen to one year in prison for dereliction of duty during the mob killing of a woman in Kabul who was falsely accused of burning ...

Taliban military vehicles parade to celebrate the third anniversary of Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan, at the Bagram Air Base, in Bagram, Parwan province on August 14, 2024. Taliban authorities ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A North Carolina man imprisoned in Afghanistan for running a private jail for terror suspects doesn't seem to be in any hurry to leave ...

An Afghan court Sunday sentenced two teenage boys to 30 years in prison for the abduction and killing of a young girl whose brutal murder provoked a national outcry. Six-year-old Mahsa Ahmadi was ...

A 79-year-old British man locked up in one of Afghanistan’s most notorious prisons has described conditions as ‘the nearest thing to hell I can imagine’. Peter Reynolds and his wife Barbie, 76, have ...

At least 20 people have been killed in fighting between security forces and Islamic State gunmen raiding an Afghan jail, officials said Monday, after the jihadist group claimed the ongoing attack.

An American woman freed by the Taliban in Afghanistan celebrated her release in a video shared by Donald Trump on Saturday, in which she thanked him for helping secure her freedom. In a video shared ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Jonathan “Jack” Idema, a former Green Beret from North Carolina convicted of running a private jail in Afghanistan where he tortured terrorism suspects, has died. He was 55. The ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — A former American soldier convicted in Afghanistan of running a private jail and torturing terror suspects has left the country after three ...

KANDAHAR (Reuters) - The governor of the Afghan jail where hundreds of insurgents this week escaped through a tunnel built by the Taliban has been detained along with several top aides, a government ...

SYDNEY, April 8 (Reuters) - Australia's most decorated living soldier will remain behind bars after his legal team did not seek bail following his arrest over multiple alleged war crimes, local media ...

ROME, June 19 (Reuters) - An Afghan employee of Italian aid agency Emergency was released from jail in Afghanistan on Tuesday after being held for three months following accusations he had connections ...