The U.S. Air Force said it would deny all transgender service members who have served between 15 and 18 years the option to ...

The U.S. Air Force has decided to deny early retirement options for transgender service members with 15 to 18 years of ...

A year-old report by Washington’s Afghanistan watchdog warned in early 2021, months before President Joe Biden announced the end to America’s longest war, the Afghan air force would collapse ...

The melee involving Afghan Air Force members ahead of Kabul’s fall hasn’t been previously reported. Reuters also learned exclusive details from airmen and former Afghan officials who participated in ...

Afghan Air Force Major Dastagir Zamaray had grown so fearful of Taliban assassinations of off-duty forces in Kabul that he decided to sell his home to move to a safer pocket of Afghanistan's sprawling ...

The Afghan Air Force, once the crown jewel of the U.S.-led NATO training mission, was supposed to be the trump card over the Taliban, supporting troops on the ground holding back the militants.

Hick's organisation says besides the helicopter pilots it knows of at least 250 more former pilots from Afghanistan's Air Force and Special Mission Wing who are still trapped in the country.

Just under 500 former Afghan air force pilots, ground crew and other military personnel were evacuated from Uzbekistan last month. Hicks said efforts to extricate the fliers from Tajikistan have ...

They are part of a group of ex-Afghan air force members who were held at camps in Uzbekistan, where they landed on Aug. 15, the day the Taliban marched into Kabul.

Musawi and two other Afghan Air Force pilots lost their lives when a small plane that he was piloting crashed near Independence on Dec. 16, 2023. (Nikki Chung via AP) ...

Its removal – along with the inability of the Afghan air force to fill the void – was one factor that contributed to the Taliban’s sweeping victory as the Americans withdrew.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Months before President Joe Biden announced the U.S.’s complete withdrawal from Afghanistan last year, Washington’s watchdog warned that the Afghan air force would collapse ...