Rahmanullah Lakanwal was a member of a “Zero Unit,” an elite squad of Afghans who have faced hardships in the U.S. due to ...

The strike forces were clandestine units who worked with U.S. military in its fight against the Taliban until 2021.

Rahmanullah Lakanwal, the Afghan man accused of shooting two National Guardsmen in Washington, served for years in top-secret ...

MAZAR-I-SHARIF, Afghanistan — Taliban insurgents using sophisticated night vision and laser targeting equipment overran Afghan army positions near the northern city of Kunduz on Tuesday, killing at ...

The "Zero Units" were considered by the U.S. and its international partners to be among Afghanistan's most trusted domestic forces.

PARIS (AP) — Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl has told people treating him at a U.S. military medical facility in Germany that he was tortured, beaten and held in a cage by his Taliban captors in Afghanistan after ...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- U.S. Special Forces have begun teaching a Pakistani paramilitary unit how to fight the Taliban and al-Qaida, hoping to strengthen a key front-line force as violence surges on ...