Reuters - NATO leaders will endorse a plan this week to bring troops home from Afghanistan gradually despite a dispute between President Hamid Karzai and the alliance’s commander that highlights…
Reuters - Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Tuesday rejected suggestions that Afghan President Hamid Karzai was increasingly at odds with the United States over war strategy.
Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants the U.S. military to scale back the visibility and intensity of its operations in Afghanistan and end night raids that he said incited…
Time.com - Reports of Tehran sending bags of cash to the Afghan President are greeted with a shrug — after all, Iran has always been a key supporter of the…
AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that once or twice a year, Iran gives his office $700,000 to $975,000 for official presidential expenses and that Washington also provides…
AP - The Afghan president on Sunday asked for a list of national aid projects that need protection by private security guards, potentially signaling his wish to reach a compromise…
AP - The Afghan government has been in reconciliation talks for months with members of a Taliban faction closely tied to al-Qaida and responsible for lethal attacks on coalition forces…
AP - A suicide bomber killed a deputy provincial governor and five others Tuesday in eastern Afghanistan, police said. Later, a tearful President Hamid Karzai decried the violence, fretting that…
AP - President Hamid Karzai marked the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the U.S. on Saturday by insisting the origins of the continued Taliban insurgency are…
AP - President Hamid Karzai marked the ninth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks in the U.S. on Saturday by insisting the origins of the continued Taliban insurgency are…