The State Department lashed out Thursday at House Republicans over a subpoena for testimony about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, accusing them of repeatedly calling for ...

The Taliban's decree banning poppy production in Afghanistan, the world's top poppy producing country, has caused a sharp ...

10 presented a congressional gold medal posthumously “in commemoration to the [13] servicemembers who perished in Afghanistan ...

"Today, we honor the brave Americans who met the terror of September 11 with extraordinary acts of courage and sacrifice," ...

U.S. flags typically fly at half-staff in the wake of national tragedies or after deaths of government officials, military ...

The museum was designated as the steward for the medal by public law. The medal depicts five service members in silhouette standing over a crowd of people waiting to board a C-17 aircraft with the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

The Islamic State group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Afghanistan's capital Kabul that killed at least six people on Monday. The terrorist organisation said it was in ...

Afghanistan’s Vice and Virtue squad is at ... Women were not allowed to wear white socks because that was the colour of the Taliban flag. But a few months later, the rule had changed: women ...

Now in its fourth year, the Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan has managed to convince many observers that they have made strides in bringing a semblance of order and ending corruption in ...

A raft of new laws relating to 'vice and virtue' have been criticised by the United Nations, who say they "extend the already intolerable restrictions on the rights of Afghan women and girls".

Three years after the departure of the final US troops from Afghanistan, the situation in the country is bleak, with the Taliban tightening its grip as it introduces increasingly oppressive laws ...