Afghanistan

Earlier this month, President Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to Kabul to sign a deal with his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai that will cement post-war ties with Kabul after 2014, when NATO-led combat forces leave Afghanistan. The pact ...  

ANDKHOI, Afghanistan, May 26 (UPI) -- At least 12 Taliban militants were killed in clashes between militants and local residents in northern Afghanistan, local authorities said. Deputy provincial council member Abdul Jame Jame said 15 other ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 25 (UPI) -- A soldier with the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan, an ISAF statement said.  

The top American official in the United Nations mission in Afghanistan, Peter Galbraith, has been vocal about the allegations of voting fraud that apparently gave incumbent President Hamid Karzai a victory. Galbraith wanted the Afghan Independent Election ...  

French president Francois Hollande made an unannounced trip to Afghanistan president to visit some of the French troops he wants to pull out later this year and meet Afghan president Hamid Karzai, whom he saw briefly last week in Chicago.  

A soldier from San Jose was killed in Afghanistan Wednesday, according to the U.S. Department of Defense. U.S. Army 2nd Lt. Travis A. Morgado, 25, was killed when insurgents using an improvised explosive device attacked his patrol in Zharay, Afghanistan. Morgado was assigned to the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington.  

French President François Hollande made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Friday to meet with French troops and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Hollande defended his decision to withdraw French forces from the country by the end of the year.  

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN : A coalition service member was killed on Thursday when a roadside bomb exploded in southern Afghanistan, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a brief statement. It raises the number of foreign troops ...  

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — France's president defended his decision to pull the country's 2,000 combat troops out of Afghanistan two years early, telling French soldiers stationed in the east on Friday that "the time for Afghan sovereignty has come." While Paris will still support Kabul and keep some trainers behind, France's decision to leave ahead of oth...  

Kabul, May 4 (ANI): Afghan President Hamid Karzai, explaining his signing of a strategic pact with the United States, said Washington has bowed to many of his demands. Karzai said the Strategic Partnership Agreement signed Tuesday evening in Kabul ...  

The Taliban are not capable of taking back Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says. The Taliban are not capable of taking back Afghanistan, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said as he sought to reassure his war-torn country's Western backers over ...  

Far from the bright lights of Chicago where world leaders met to shape NATO’s exit from Afghanistan, one of the war’s victims, 12-year-old Aleema, sums up her life in three words: “It’s the worst.” Aleema, who has lived in a mud hovel ...  

WASHINGTON: Days after the NATO Summit in Chicago endorsed his exit plan from Afghanistan, US President Barack Obama today said that he would end the Afghan war by 2014. "Osama bin Laden is no longer a threat to this country and al-Qaeda is on ...  

HERAT, Afghanistan, May 23 (Xinhua) -- A total of 15 Taliban insurgents laid down their arms and ... "Fifteen Taliban fighters gave up fighting and joined the peace process in Chasht district, Herat today," police spokesman of the province Noor Khan ...  

The DOD also reported the deaths of four other soldiers late Monday: Sgt. Michael J. Knapp, 28, of Overland Park, Kan., and Sgt. JaBraun S. Knox, 23, of Fort Wayne, Ind., died Friday in Asadabad, Kunar province, Afghanistan, of wounds suffered when enemy ...