Hours after Rahmanullah Lakanwal, a former Afghan commando who worked on behalf of the CIA during wartime, allegedly shot two National Guard troops blocks away from the White House on Nov. 26, I ...

An Afghan ex-commando who served alongside the British Army fighting the Taliban was deported back to Afghanistan with his family while waiting for UK relocation under a government scheme. The man was ...

The Afghan national who has been charged with shooting two members of the West Virginia National Guard this week was reportedly a member of the elite Afghan "Zero Unit" forces backed by the CIA - with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Afghan national named Rahmanullah Lakanwal has been identified as the suspected shooter in the ambush attack that killed one ...

With fighting expected to pick up this spring, Afghanistan's security is heavily dependent on elite forces like the commandos. NPR's Tom Bowman... With The U.S. In The Background, Afghan Commandos ...

Aziz’s family was sitting down for an evening meal in their cramped Islamabad hotel room when there was a knock at the door. When his nine-year-old daughter opened it, she was faced with a group of ...

(CNN) — Fifteen people were freed from a Taliban prison in the southern Afghanistan province of Helmand on Sunday, the international coalition said in a statement. Afghan and coalition forces ...

Soldiers and police officers, many in tears, heaved bodies of their comrades from the trucks and laid them on sheets on the ground, side by side on their backs, until there were 20 of them. The dead ...