After numerous delays, A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft and the crews trained in the U.S. to fly them will finally begin arriving in Afghanistan next year to give fixed-wing ground attack ...

A-29 Super Tucano attack aircraft manned by Afghan pilots trained in the U.S. have conducted the first close air support missions by fixed-wing aircraft ever flown for the fledgling Afghan Air ...

Numerous photos have surfaced on social media of Taliban fighters posing with Black Hawk helicopters, A-29 attack planes and other aircraft from the Afghan air force fleet.

Attack drones, fixed-wing surveillance aircraft and Apache helicopters continue to patrol the Afghanistan skies to find and destroy enemy targets and weapons in the austere, mountainous terrain of ...

The aircraft included C-208 utility aircraft, A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft, as well as Mi-17, Mi-25 and UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, according to satellite images analyzed by the ...

WASHINGTON – Specific, credible terrorist threats from ISIS-K to U.S. troops and civilians fleeing Afghanistan continued Friday after Thursday's devastating Kabul airport attack, which killed 13 ...

Credit: U.S. Air Force Subscribe for ads-free reading The Afghan Air Force (AAF) received two additional Embraer/Sierra Nevada Corporation A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft last month at ...

An Afghan army air corps soldier cleans the rear rotor of an Mi-17 helicopter during aircraft maintenance in Afghanistan in 2012. The forces have since acquired U.S.-made Black Hawk helicopters.

A U.S. soldier provides security while an MD-530 helicopter takes off carrying an Afghan air crew for a combat mission from the air base at Kabul International Airport on Sept. 27, 2015.

KABUL, Afghanistan — When Taliban fighters rode triumphantly into Kabul airport early Tuesday, they did so on U.S. pickup trucks, wearing American-made uniforms and brandishing American M-4 and ...

Other coalition aircraft opened fire on the target. Meanwhile, a Pentagon official said a B-52 was on a strike mission against a cave complex in Uruzgan — an event that appeared unrelated to the ...