As Nangarhar Province and Afghanistan as a whole draw closer to elections, these advising visits between Pekala, his team and their Afghan Uniform Police counterparts, specifically with the ...

The insurgency in Nangarhar province persists Questions remain about the loyalty of the Afghan Local Police Khogyani is said to be the home of several senior Taliban leaders KHOGYANI, Nangarhar ...

KABUL (Reuters) - An explosion outside the governor's office in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar killed 10 people on Sunday and wounded 30, a security official said. No one immediately ...

An Afghan official said Monday that a man and his two sons were killed by coalition forces after the troops' convoy hit a roadside bomb in Nangarhar province, where U.S. troops are helping ...

He says he watched the governor of Nangarhar province flee the fight and escape to Kabul in his shiny white car. Taliban fighters quickly took up residence in the governor’s abandoned home.

On Sunday, Afghan officials confirmed that Abu Saad Erhabi, head of IS in Afghanistan, was killed in a U.S airstrike in Nangarhar province. Erhabi was the fourth leader of IS-Khurasan killed since ...

“I strongly condemn recent attacks in a hospital in Kabul and Nangarhar province which killed a number of innocent people including women and children,” Ghani said on Tuesday in an address ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – The Taliban stormed a police checkpoint in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province and killed seven policemen, a provincial official said Monday. The attack took place the ...

Nangarhar borders Pakistan, and has been a hotbed of insurgency. The improved security measures come at an important time, officials said, as Afghans prepare for national elections later this year.

Afghanistan produces 70-80% of the world’s opium, and in 2015, over 127,000 people worldwide died of opium-related deaths. Afghan opium production surged 43% in Afghanistan in 2016, in part due ...

Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan"This is an Afghan process," Lt. Col. Gordon Phil lips began, "and I am here to make sure it goes smoothly. But the decisions are not mine. They are yours." A dozen ...