The U.S. spent $8 billion building an Afghan air force in its own image. But how long can it last after American forces withdraw?

With the Afghan Air Force running low on ordnance and desperate for maintenance, the US military has had to pick up the slack.

The Afghan air force is poised to take a major step forward in 2016 with the initial deployment of the A-29 Super Tucano, an attack plane bought by the Pentagon to give the Afghan military the ...

The Afghan air force has made significant technological strides in the three years since it received strike aircraft, but still garners headlines that showcase possible negligence on the part of ...

Despite having begun to train the Afghan Army in 2008, the U.S. only started to seriously put together the Afghan Air Force in the last three years.

Editor's note: The following is an opinion piece. On Feb. 8, Military Times published an article titled "Is the Afghan Air Force trigger happy? Here's what the numbers say." The article challenged ...

All US contractors are leaving Afghanistan and that could ground most of the Afghan Air Force, a vital part of the Afghan security forces.

After a scathing report to Congress cast more doubt on the security situation in Afghanistan, few things in the wayward country appear to be going well, except, that is, for the Afghan Air Force.

Afghanistan's air force remains small — only about 7,000 of Afghanistan's 340,000 security forces — and it has not developed as fast as other branches of Afghan armed forces.

When the Taliban took Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, an Afghan Air Force pilot had to choose between his family and his country.

The Taliban is trying to revive the Afghan Air Force by using and repairing aircraft inherited from the former Afghan government. But the scarcity of trained pilots, a spate of deadly accidents ...

A former Air Force colonel who completed 44-hour mission in Afghanistan has revealed what it’s like to be inside the B-2 stealth bomber which bombed Iran.