Afghanistan becomes the 70th country to operate the C-130 following the formal delivery of the two former U.S. Air Force aircraft on Oct. 9 at Kabul International Airport.

The U.S. Air Force is slated to give the Afghans four C-130H aircraft. Two of those aircraft will be delivered on Oct. 10, the NATO Air Training Command-Afghanistan announced on Wednesday.

Signalling an increased confidence, the Pentagon has sent one of its most fearsome weapons into combat over Afghanistan. After 10 days of high-altitude bombing and impersonal cruise missiles, the ...

LONDON — A freak hailstorm in Afghanistan left five of the U.K. Royal Air Force’s Lockheed Martin C-130J Hercules aircraft unavailable for operations, it has been revealed. Details of the ...