KABUL: A non-governmental group monitoring Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections said on Saturday it had reported “extensive irregularities”, including attacks on polling stations, to... (more...)

ISLAMABAD: Leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan on Wednesday vowed to expand scope of their talks aimed at greater cooperation in the fight against terrorism and collaboration at bilateral political and... (more...)

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama convened his Afghan war cabinet on Monday as new reports cast doubt on the US strategy to convince President Hamid Karzai to purge his government of corruption. Obama... (more...)

KABUL: Three US soldiers were killed on Friday in attacks in Afghanistan, NATO said, as Afghan authorities accused international forces of killing six children during an air assault on Taliban positions.... (more...)

KUNDUZ, Afghanistan: Taliban fighters overran a police post in northern Afghanistan Thursday, killing eight officers, the provincial governor said, in an attack that underscores the militia’s widening... (more...)

KABUL: Three foreign soldiers fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan were killed in separate attacks on Saturday, NATO said, while a woman and two children died in an operation against Al-Qaeda-linked insurgents.... (more...)

KABUL: Two Americans who were among eight foreign aid workers shot dead in a remote region of Afghanistan earlier this month were buried Saturday in Kabul’s British Cemetery. A small crowd of family... (more...)

WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama has ordered establishment of a new termporary office which will support the American executive departments and agencies in strengthening the governments of Afghanistan,... (more...)

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai pledged to continue efforts to “keep the pressure on the Taliban” during a video conference on Friday, the White... (more...)

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai is to dissolve all private security companies operating in the country, his spokesman said on Tuesday. (more…)  Read More →