The No. 2 U.S. commander in Afghanistan says the U.S. military will begin sending advisory teams this year to help Afghan combat forces as they take a more prominent role in fighting the Taliban insurgency. Full story
Afghan security forces said Tuesday they had captured 65 out of at least 480 inmates who escaped from a prison through a tunnel dug by Taliban insurgents. Full story
Hundreds of prisoners escaped from a jail in Afghanistan's south through a tunnel dug by Taliban insurgents, officials said, a "disaster" for the Afghan government. Full story
The Washington Post’s Rajiv Chandrasekaran explains whether the U.S. will be able to start bring home troops in July as attacks from Taliban insurgents decline.
Nowsher Awan, 30, will drive 435 miles through Taliban territory to deliver 15,600 gallons of fuel. The U.S. war effort in Afghanistan would grind to a halt without men like him. Full story
The village-level fighting forces the U.S. is fostering are having a rocky start, with complaints that recruits are not consistently vetted for ties to criminals and warlords. Full story
An Afghan policemen takes a look at the opening of tunnel at the main prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan which prisoners escaped through Monday, April 25, 2011. Taliban insurgents dug a more than 1,050-foot (320-meter) tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more than
An Afghan policemen takes a look at the opening of tunnel at the main prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan which prisoners escaped through on Monday, April 25, 2011. Taliban insurgents dug a more than 1,050-foot (320-meter) tunnel underground and into the main jail in Kandahar city and whisked out more t
