Canadian troops left for what Ottawa admits will be a dangerous six-month tour of duty in Afghanistan Saturday after some last goodbye hugs from loved ones. INDEPTH: Afghanistan: Canadian peacekeeping ...

Does U.S. Understand the Karzai Problem? Dexter Filkins, in a long New York Times Magazine profile of top Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, worries that American forces don't ...

President Barack Obama huddled with President Hamid Karzai in Chicago on Sunday, urging Afghanistan’s leader to accelerate negotiations with the Taliban over a political solution to the longest war in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “On this proud occasion and for a truly independent and self-sufficient Afghanistan, I once again ask the caretaker government to ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Jan. 28 -- Peter Jennings interviewed Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, in Washington, D.C. today, after President Bush welcomed Karzai to the White House and invited ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been holding secret talks with Taliban officials in an effort to bridge peace with his government, The New York Times reported late Monday. Western and Afghan ...

Amid the rising geopolitical tensions across the globe, former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has condemned a report that there has been a Pakistani airstrike in Nuristan Province in Afghanistan.

With Abdullah Abdullah out of the run-off election, Hamid Karzai has been declared re-elected as President of Afghanistan. In Kabul, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has offered congratulations, at ...

After having been accused of voter fraud by just about the entire world, Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai has agreed to a November 7th run-off election against his main challenger, Abdullah ...

KABUL (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai's stubborn refusal to sign a pact that would keep thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014 is a high-risk gamble that Washington will give in to his ...

It's difficult to interpret the widely-touted deal between the U.S. and Afghanistan over night raids in any way other than as a political gift to Afghan President Hamid Karzai. On Sunday night, the ...

KABUL (Reuters) - President Hamid Karzai's stubborn refusal to sign a pact that would keep thousands of U.S. troops in Afghanistan after 2014 is a high-risk gamble that Washington will give in to his ...