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.

One way for New Delhi to overcome its anxieties and further cement ties with Kabul is to consider providing direct military assistance to the Afghan government and training support to the burgeoning Afghan National Security Forces. The India-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement signed in October 2011 already provides...

KABUL — Afghan and Pakistani forces exchanged fire along a disputed border Monday, the second clash of its kind in less than a week. Both sides used artillery and mortar rounds in the two hours of fighting in the Goshta area of the eastern Afghan province of Nangahar. The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force brokered a cease-fire, a 

Pashto language teaching materials with a scientific approach are quite scarce. In these circumstances the “MANUEL DE PASHTO” published by Daniel Septfonds and Kabir Habib can be seen as a significant step in the history of this language.

د پاکستان صدراعظم وايي پوځ يې د دې هېواد په قبايلي سيمه کې جنوبي وزيرستان کې پوځي عمليات پايته ورسول خو د افغانستان پولې ته نژدې به ځينو نورو سيمو کې ....

After his inauguration on Thursday, re-elected Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced he would organize a "loya jirga" -- a large assembly of Afghan leaders.

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