Forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably in an effort to live and work illegally in America, Pentagon officials ...

Report: Dozens of Afghan soldiers have gone AWOL while training in U.S. Forty-four Afghan troops visiting the United States for military training have gone missing in less than two years, presumably ...

A U.S.-based program to train Afghan attack pilots has shuttered after nearly half of trainees went absent without leave, or AWOL, resulting in only one graduating class, according to a government ...

A nationwide alert has been issued for 17 members of the Afghan military who have gone AWOL from an Air Force base in Texas where foreign military officers who are training to become pilots are taught ...

Some Afghan pilots, like those pictured here in Kabul, Afghanistan, attend portions of training in the United States. Afghan students sometimes go AWOL in the U.S., however, complicating training ...

A program to train Afghan pilots at Fort Worth’s Meacham Field has ended after many of the participants went absent without leave — or AWOL — according to the Air Force Times. The report didn’t ...

An Afghan pilot conducts training in a C-208 Caravan over Kabul, Afghanistan as part of the Train Advise and Assist Command's (TAAC-Air) mission on Dec. 18, 2018. (Sr. Amn. Maygan Straight/Air Force) ...

More than 40 Afghan security force members training in the US have gone AWOL since last year, including eight last month, according to the US military. One of those eight who vanished in September was ...

The Pentagon said it is looking at ways to “strengthen eligibility requirements” for Afghan servicemen chosen to train in the United States after 45 Afghan troops went AWOL while attending U.S.

The military has shut down a training program for Afghan pilots and maintainers in the U.S. because of high desertion rates among the trainees, according to the office of the Special Inspector General ...