Basing combat jets less than 100 miles from Afghanistan's border could take significant pressure off carrier-based Navy aircraft and vastly increase the air war's intensity, enabling Air Force F ...

More than 140 Afghan Air Force pilots and crew members detained in Tajikistan since mid-August after fleeing Afghanistan were flown out of the country Tuesday with the help of the American ...

Around 150 former Afghan Air Force pilots and personnel, who were trapped in Tajikistan for months after fleeing Afghanistan, have been airlifted by the United States out of the country to the ...

ISLAMABAD — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban government has asked Uzbekistan and Tajikistan to return air force planes and helicopters flown to the neighboring countries by fleeing pilots as the U ...

DUSHANBE, Tajikistan -- In the latest sign of a stepped-up offensive ahead in Afghanistan, a U.S. military team arrived here to inspect three former Soviet airfields as potential air-support bases ...

The Air Force will use an airfield in Tajikistan to conduct its first sustained tactical strikes in the U.S. bombing campaign against Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban and Osama bin Laden’s ...

As the Taliban made its push into Kabul, hundreds of Afghan Air Force personnel flew dozens of aircraft into Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. Some of those aircraft have been returned to the United States.

In 2002, India reportedly flew cargo out of Farkhor, with Russian permission, but there never was any evidence — aside from rumors — of an Indian air force presence.

Russia wants to expand its air force deployment to Tajikistan and is in talks with Dushanbe for joint use of an air base in the former Soviet republic, the Russian ambassador to Dushanbe said on ...

Around 150 former Afghan Air Force pilots and personnel, who were trapped in Tajikistan for months after fleeing Afghanistan, have been airlifted by the United States out of the country to the ...