Government of Afghanistan

More than 50 civilian Afghans were shot dead in a joint operation between Islamic State and the Taliban, TASS reported. The bloody attack took place last night in the northern province of Sari Pull, where the forces under Kabul and local residents fought against the supporters of radical Muslim groups.

At least 24 people have been killed and 42 wounded after a Taliban car bomb struck a bus carrying government employees in western Kabul yesterday, officials said, the latest attack to strike the Afghan capital.

"The car bomb hit a bus carrying employees of the ministry of mines during rush hour," interior ministry spokesman Najib Danish told AFP.

NATO will increase troop numbers in Afghanistan to help train local forces facing a resurgent Taliban but will not return to a combat role, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on June 29.

The alliance ended its longest-ever military operation in 2014 when it handed over post-9/11 frontline duties to the Afghan military and took on an advice and training mission.

Russia on March 24 denied allegations by the commander of NATO that Moscow may be assisting the Taliban as the insurgents fight U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.

Niloofar Rhmani is the first woman pilot of the Afghan air force. Her courageous decision was applauded by the western world and she was awarded U.S. State Department’s International Women of Courage Award in 2015.

At least six people have been killed in a powerful Taliban truck bombing at the German consulate in Afghanistan's Mazar-i-Sharif city on Nov. 11, with more than 100 others wounded in a major militant assault.

A major Taliban suicide bomb and gun attack on a government security office in central Kabul during rush hour on April 19 killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 320, a week after the militant group announced a spring offensive. 

Child casualties have soared in Afghanistan this year as the Taliban stepped up attacks in urban areas, the United Nations said on April 17, branding the figures "appalling."

Between January and March, 161 children were killed and 449 others injured - a 29 percent increase from a year earlier - the U.N.'s mission in Afghanistan said in a report.  

The Afghan Taliban announced on April 12 the start of their "spring offensive" even as the government in Kabul tries to bring the insurgents back to the negotiating table to end their drawn-out conflict.
 

The real life of a soldier in war theatres is far from the glorified image often portrayed in a Hollywood film. It is a constant battle for his/her life survival at every turn. A video shows a US soldier taking on Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan. The footage shows him pinned behind the tree-line, while under heavy fire. He manages to survive.