Afghanistan

The highly-acclaimed novel 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' has been adapted for the opera stage, and features music by composer and Seattle native Sheila Silver. The world premiere is this weekend in Seattle.

The crisis in Afghanistan has reopened painful wounds for many of the 2 million Vietnamese Americans living in the United States. It has also spurred many — including a Seattle doctor who was 9 years old when her family arrived in the U.S. from Vietnam in the 1980s — to assist newly arriving Afghans.

C-17s are a mainstay in the skies over Pierce County. So the image of Afghans clinging to one – specifically one based at Joint Base Lewis-McChord – triggers a deep connection for local residents. One local veteran talks about the C-17 and what it’s like to see something connected to home become an iconic image at the end of a war.

An Afghan interpreter kept Brian Olsen safe, and now faces possible retribution from the Taliban. Olsen is scrambling to try and get him and his family out of the country.

Troops from Joint Base Lewis-McChord have been involved in Afghanistan throughout the conflict these many years. And The News Tribune is reporting that an…

Striking a defiant tone, President Joe Biden said Monday that he stands “squarely behind” his decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan as he…

AU.S. government watchdog says the Defense Department procured uniforms in a camouflage pattern that is far more expensive than other options and likely inappropriate for the landscape in Afghanistan.

An Afghan soldier opened fire on his U.S. counterparts in Afghanistan on Saturday, killing three soldiers and wounding another. The "green-on-blue" violence is not the first to occur this year.

At least 13 officers of the Afghan National Police were reportedly killed, and 11 U.S. contractors are among the wounded, after a massive explosion near foreign embassies.

In addition to the deaths, three U.S. service members were wounded, as were 25 Afghan civilians, in the morning rush-hour attack that happened near the U.S. Embassy, a U.S. military spokesman says.