In a decade-long operation, the CIA modified poppy seeds and dropped them by the billions from aircraft over Afghanistan in ...

October 7, 2001 – Operation Enduring Freedom begins. US President George W. Bush announces that US and British forces have begun airstrikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan. Airstrikes ...

In an exclusive Washington Post story, reporter Warren Strobel describes a CIA operation in Afghanistan over the course of about a decade. The goal was to degrade the country's opium crop.

Geography and a history of proxy politics have made Afghanistan an arena for others’ contests, undermining its stability.

U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, demoralizing and at times ...

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act cut off access to SNAP for 90,000 noncitizens who are in the country legally. Among them: ...

U.S. Army veteran takes us to the frontlines of the Afghanistan war in his new memoir Ross A. Berkoff joins The Lead.