A shooting in Washington, D.C., threw their immigration status into jeopardy — and brought attention to a long-hidden dimension of America’s war.

Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official ...

In one of the most revealing stories of the year, investigative reporters Juliet Linderman and Claire Galofaro spent three years fighting to unseal court ...

The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of the U.S. government’s decision to reunite her with her Afghan family.

Pakistan launched deadly airstrikes inside Afghanistan, killed civilians, shattered a fragile ceasefire and then pointed its finger eastward at India. Geeta Mohan examines who truly reignited this con ...

The ruling places the Afghan child back in the custody of a U.S. Marine who has fought extensively in state and federal court ...

Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif admits Islamabad's political motives in Afghanistan conflicts, urges ...

In the days and months after the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, Thomas Kasza and some of his fellow U.S. Army Special Forces members focused their attention on the Afghans who ...

The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he’d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency — that the child injured on the battlefield in ...