20 years after the country was used as a staging base for the 9/11 attacks, Lloyd Austin says the Taliban is 'on notice' that the US expects it to keep al-Qaeda quashed in Kabul

Ahmad Wali Massoud, uncle of National Resistance Front leader, says thousands of forces in Panjshir Valley are 'still alive'

Navy Corpsman Maxton Soviak, 22, is also promoted to the rank of hospital corpsman third class

In 1st message since Islamist insurgency's takeover of Afghanistan, Haibatullah Akhundzada warns 'people should not try to leave the country'

Leaders of new hardline Islamist regime in Afghanistan includes numerous figures under UN sanctions, a co-founder of group who led withdrawal agreement talks with US

Video shows Zebulon Simantov on 5-day journey across border as he's rescued along with dozens of women and children; says he wants to go to New York

Zebulon Simantov crosses the border to a neighboring country with the help of an ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn fixer and an Israeli-American businessman, report says

US intelligence agent who worked with Bush and Obama says terror group will rearm with the help of Taliban

Mullah Mohammad Hassan Akhund was a deputy minister when Islamists last ruled Afghanistan

In show of defiance against new Islamist leadership, hundreds attend at least three separate rallies, including one outside Pakistan's embassy over its alleged meddling in country