Afghan President Hamid Karzai is reaffirming his opposition to night raids that coalition forces are conducting to capture and kill midlevel Taliban insurgents. In a press conference on Tuesday,

President Barack Obama said for the first time he wants US troops out of major combat in Afghanistan by the end of 2014, the date he and other Nato leaders set for moving Afghans into the lead role in

Kabul: Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has reportedly held a secret meeting with three Taliban leaders in an effort to weaken the Haqqani network.

Jalaluddin Haqqani, a commander in the 1980s Afgh

London: Observers of the evolving situation in war-torn Afghanistan have said the recent moves by the U.S.-led NATO coalition force to facilitate peace talks between a council appointed by President H

New York: Iran has provided millions of dollars to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's chief of staff Umar Daudzai in "a secret, steady stream of cash" in a bid to buy his loyalty and drive a wedge betwee

Sept. 11: Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s close relatives and associates either own or occupy 12 expensive homes in the Gulf valued at £90 million, raising fears that western aid money sent to the war

Aug. 26: The aide to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan at the centre of a politically sensitive corruption investigation is being paid by the CIA, according to Afghan and American officials. Moha

An explosion rocked Kabul on Tuesday morning hours before a major international conference is slated to be held in the Afghan capital.

Witnesses in northern outskirts of Kabul said they heard the exp

The external affairs minister, Mr S.M. Krishna, arrived here on Monday night for an international conference on the future of Afghanistan being hosted by the Afghan President, Mr Hamid Karzai.

Mr K

As world leaders backed handing over Afghanistan's security responsibility to its government by 2014, India on Tuesday said that any new process to stabilise the war-torn nation must be fully "Afghan-