NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen Wednesday vowed not to abandon Afghanistan as foreign nations plan to transition forces out of the country.

"We will not abandon Afghanistan, we will not leave behind

Afghanistan's parliament on Saturday voted by an overwhelming majority to ratify a strategic partnership agreement with the United States signed earlier this month, lawmakers said.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday announced a new transfer of security control from NATO that will see local forces take responsibility for 75 per cent of Afghanistan's population.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai Monday blamed intelligence failures, particularly on the part of NATO forces supporting his government, for the worst coordinated insurgent attacks in 10 years of war.

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Condemned to die shortly after birth for being a girl, outspoken Afghan member of parliament Fawzia Koofi lived to become a champion of women's rights and is now eyeing the presidency in 2014.

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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday he may call an early presidential election to leave enough time for the new government to handle a planned security transition from US forces to Afghans.

US President Barack Obama called up his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai Friday to discuss the process of transition to Afghan-led security while reaffirming its timetable would be completed by 2014, t

The Afghan presidency confirmed on Monday that a fake Twitter account had been set up in the name of Hamid Karzai, one which described a US soldier's killing of 16 Afghan civilians as an 'act of war'.

US President Barack Obama held a video conference with his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai during which they discussed the current security situation in Afghanistan and the progress in the reconciliat

Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai said his government talks to the Taliban every day through intermediaries, according to an interview by Australia's SBS television for broadcast on Tuesday.

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