KABUL, Afghanistan — American officials say U.S. representatives will begin formal meetings with the Taliban in a few days at the group’s new office opening in Qatar. Senior Obama administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak on the record, described the Taliban’s move to open a political office […]

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — At least seven heavily armed Taliban insurgents attacked near Afghanistan’s main airport Monday, apparently trying to attack NATO’s airport headquarters with rocket-propelled grenades, assault rifles and at least one large bomb. Security forces engaged in an hours-long battle and killed all the attackers. The airport was closed to all civilian air […]

KABUL, Afghanistan — A man in an Afghan army uniform turned his weapon on American trainers working with him in the country’s east on Saturday, killing three of them, while an attacker with a grenade killed an Italian soldier in the west, officials said. The shooting in Paktika province was the latest in a string […]

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Militants killed six Americans, including a young female diplomat, and an Afghan doctor Saturday in a pair of attacks in Afghanistan on Saturday. It was the deadliest day for the United States in the war in eight months. The violence — hours after the U.S. military’s top officer arrived for consultations with […]

KABUL, Afghanistan — Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai smoothed over one of the worst patches in the difficult relationship between the United States and Afghanistan with smiles and a compromise Monday that settles — for now — a bitter dispute over the fate of Taliban prisoners deemed a threat to […]