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Up to 50 people were killed Tuesday in U.S. airstrikes on buildings in an Afghan area frequented by insurgents, a senior U.S. military official told CNN on Friday.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed his sometimes-turbulent relationship with the United States on Friday as more details emerged about U.S. airstrikes in his country that killed dozens of people this week.
Afghanistan's president Tuesday praised U.S. plans to provide more civilian help to his country, and expressed hope that the country become less dependent on international partners in coming years.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai travels to Washington this week to meet with President Obama and with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Zardari.
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan announced Monday he will run for re-election. The country's electoral commission confirmed he had filed his candidacy.
The Afghan government will change a law that critics say legalizes rape within marriage for Shia Muslims, President Hamid Karzai told CNN Thursday.
The Afghan government will change a law that critics say legalizes rape within marriage for Shia Muslims, President Hamid Karzai told CNN Thursday.
"In Afghanistan, the sacrifice in the political game is women and children," female Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi said.
Amid mounting pressure from the West, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his government will review a recently approved version of a law that critics say legalizes marital rape and the U.S. president has called "abhorrent."
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai issued a decree on Saturday that sets an earlier date for the country's presidential election, a move that could spark a constitutional crisis.
Up to 50 people were killed Tuesday in U.S. airstrikes on buildings in an Afghan area frequented by insurgents, a senior U.S. military official told CNN on Friday.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai discussed his sometimes-turbulent relationship with the United States on Friday as more details emerged about U.S. airstrikes in his country that killed dozens of people this week.
Afghanistan's president Tuesday praised U.S. plans to provide more civilian help to his country, and expressed hope that the country become less dependent on international partners in coming years.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai travels to Washington this week to meet with President Obama and with his Pakistani counterpart Asif Zardari.
President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan announced Monday he will run for re-election. The country's electoral commission confirmed he had filed his candidacy.
The Afghan government will change a law that critics say legalizes rape within marriage for Shia Muslims, President Hamid Karzai told CNN Thursday.
The Afghan government will change a law that critics say legalizes rape within marriage for Shia Muslims, President Hamid Karzai told CNN Thursday.
"In Afghanistan, the sacrifice in the political game is women and children," female Afghan parliamentarian Fawzia Koofi said.
Amid mounting pressure from the West, Afghan President Hamid Karzai says his government will review a recently approved version of a law that critics say legalizes marital rape and the U.S. president has called "abhorrent."
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai issued a decree on Saturday that sets an earlier date for the country's presidential election, a move that could spark a constitutional crisis.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Afghan President Hamid Karzai America's "new strategy" in Afghanistan will focus on reconstructing the war-battered country and maintaining strong counter-terrorism measures, his office said.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that his country would join the strategic review of the U.S.-led war on terrorism.
President Hamid Karzai said that with a resurgent Taliban, a still-flourishing drug trade and a border with Pakistan believed to be home base for al Qaeda, Afghanistan can't afford for U.S. troops to leave any time soon.
Shivering in pain and calling for her mother, Shamsia's hands shake uncontrollably, her eyes swollen shut and her skin peeling from terrible acid burns.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai took his first tour of a U.S. aircraft carrier Thursday in the Gulf of Oman to understand U.S. Navy overseas operations, the Navy said Friday.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said President-elect Barack Obama assured him Saturday that the United States would send more aid and pay more attention to his war-torn country, according to Karzai's office, but Obama aides declined to confirm the call had included specific promises.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai Tuesday he has asked the king of Saudi Arabia to help facilitate peace talks with the Taliban in order to bring an end to the Afghan conflict
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has fired two military commanders in the wake of a U.S. airstrike in western Afghanistan that killed 89 civilians, according to a statement from Karzai's office.
Fourteen Afghan civilians were killed Saturday in Taliban roadside attacks and 17 Taliban militants were killed in clashes with Afghan and NATO-led troops in southern Helmand province, officials said.
In an interview with TIME, Afghanistan's President says the way to help his country is by fixing Pakistan
The young Afghan girl sits in the center of the room, weeping. Using her hand and her blue scarf to hide her face, she recounts how she was brutally raped by five gunmen.
Nobody's saying so, but many will quietly point the finger at Pakistan over a deadly attack on India's Kabul embassy
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has ordered an inquiry into allegations that 15 civilians were killed in a U.S. military strike targeting militants.
Pakistan reacted sternly Monday to comments by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, who said Afghani troops could enter Pakistan to confront Islamic militants.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened Sunday to send Afghan troops across the border to fight militants in Pakistan
Afghan President Hamid Karzai warned Sunday his troops would take their battle against Taliban extremists across the border into Pakistan to prevent them launching attacks in his country.
More than 60 countries are expected to pledge close to $15 billion to rebuild Afghanistan at a donor's conference Thursday.
Afghanistan hopes leaders from more than 60 countries meeting in Paris on Thursday will pledge some $15 billion to help rebuild a nation wracked by poverty and the Taliban insurgency
A soldier from NATO's International Security Assistance force was killed in an explosion in eastern Afghanistan Wednesday, ISAF has said, as Afghan security forces continued their hunt for those behind the recent assassination attempt on President Hamid Karzai.
Taliban militants opened fire at a military ceremony in the capital Sunday morning. A lawmaker, tribal leader and 10-year-old child were killed, but President Hamid Karzai escaped unhurt, according to an official and a statement from Karzai's office.
Amid international outrage over a student journalist sentenced to death for blaspheming Islam, the Afghan government Saturday said it was "fully aware of the gravity of the case."
Unless more is done to tackle growing extremism in countries including Pakistan, Afghanistan could once again fall into terrorist hands with dire consequence for the region and the world, the country's president warned Friday.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai and his Pakistani counterpart Pervez Musharraf met Wednesday to try to mend rifts over how to tackle terrorism across their countries' borders amid accusations that neither side was doing enough.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday said the death toll from Tuesday's fatal suicide bomb blast in the country's northeast increased to 41 and a forensic investigation was already underway.
A bomb ripped through an Afghan national army bus in the capital city of Kabul, killing at least 27 people and injuring 29 others Saturday morning, Interior Ministry spokesman Zmarai Bashary told CNN.
The U.S. touted the Pakistani-Afghan summit as the region's best hope for fighting terrorism. If so, the outlook is grim
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that the Taliban still endanger innocent people, but they pose no significant threat either to his government or to its institutions.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf will meet with one of his prominent critics, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, this week to discuss efforts to battle militants who have established a haven in Pakistan.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai, upset over the deaths of civilians caught in the middle of fighting between coalition troops and militant fighters, had harsh words for NATO forces Saturday.
NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. James Jones promised Afghan President Hamid Karzai at a news conference Saturday that a full investigation of an incident involving the unintended death of around 70 Afghan civilians would be launched.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has assembled a team to investigate reports of civilian casualties caused by NATO air operations in southern Afghanistan.
With books about George Washington arrayed on a shelf behind him in his office in Kabul, Afghan President Hamid Karzai talked to Fortune recently about the nation-building challenges that still con...
It has been half a decade since the U.S. went to war in Afghanistan to oust the Taliban, and the place finally appears to be getting down to business. On Jalalabad Road outside Kabul, where bandits...
At least 13 people were killed, including women and children, when a suicide bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body in a busy shopping and pedestrian area of Kabul on Saturday morning, police and U.N. officials said.
Saying that allies must "strategize together," U.S. President George W. Bush appealed to two South Asian leaders Wednesday to put aside their increasingly public differences in the war against terror.
After talks Tuesday with Afghan Harmid Karzai, President Bush said he rejects the idea that "perceived" tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan is undermining the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
(CNN) -- "We have now left a hard and dark past behind us," declared Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in his inauguration address of December 7, 2004. "Today we are opening a new chapter in our history."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai expressed skepticism Sunday that a pact signed between his Pakistani counterpart and tribal elders across the border will reduce the incidents of terrorism in his country.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has strongly suggested he will serve just one term as Afghan leader and not contest his country's next presidential election scheduled for 2009. In an exclusive interview with Fortune, the 49-year-old Karzai said, "I don't think it is good to be running all the time. Let other people get a chance to run."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday that the Taliban, the militant group ousted from power more than four years ago, is incapable of making a comeback.
U.S. soldiers who fired into a crowd in northern Kabul on Monday did so in self-defense, a U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday.
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf ripped the president of neighboring Afghanistan on Sunday, telling CNN that Hamid Karzai is "totally oblivious of what is happening in his own country."
Afghan police and soldiers surrounded the nation's highest security prison after an uprising broke out in three sections containing hundreds of inmates.
The president of Afghanistan has demanded justice from the United States over the alleged abuse of two Afghan detainees who reportedly died in American custody.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his country wants longer, stronger ties with the United States, including a long-term "strategic security relationship."
Afghan President Hamid Karzai predicted Sunday that luck would play a role in catching terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, but he promised "we will get him sooner or later."
New Afghan President Hamid Karzai is preparing to meet tribal leaders in a bid to step up the fight against the country's drug trade.
Hamid Karzai has been sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president, as 150 foreign dignitaries -- including U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- looked on.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has defended a Cabinet decision to release about 200 prisoners from Afghan jails, despite the possibility some may be terrorists.
Incumbent Hamid Karzai has been declared the winner of Afghanistan's first direct presidential election, the body organizing the vote has said.
With the counting effectively "over and done," incumbent Hamid Karzai is the clear winner in Afghanistan's presidential election, a senior official has said.
Vote counting in Afghanistan's historic elections is almost finished, with incumbent President Hamid Karzai on course to win a simple majority.
More than half the votes have been counted in Afghanistan's landmark election, and President Hamid Karzai is said to be running well ahead of his rivals.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai continues to hold a strong lead in the nation's landmark elections amid accusations of voter fraud from a key rival.
Weekend counting shows interim President Hamid Karzai is well ahead of his rivals and on course to become Afghanistan's first popularly elected leader.
Early tabulations from the first-ever democratic presidential election in Afghanistan show U.S.-backed interim President Hamid Karzai ahead of his rivals Friday, election officials said.
An investigation has been launched into complaints about Afghanistan's landmark election as one of the main challengers has backed off calls for a boycott of the results.
There is no reason to nullify results from Saturday's presidential election in Afghanistan, despite voting irregularities that caused the opposition candidates to demand a new election, according to the head of an international group monitoring the process.
Afghanistan's first election was marred by controversy when all but one of the presidential candidates alleged voter fraud and vowed to discount the results.
Afghans have begun heading to the polls in the country's first direct democratic election, almost three years after the hard-line Taliban regime was ousted by a U.S.-led military campaign.
A rocket has exploded near the U.S. military compound in Kabul one day before Afghans vote to elect their president for the first time.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has told his supporters to vote without fear at a rally in a Kabul stadium the Taliban once used for beheadings.
A convoy carrying the running mate to Afghan President Hamid Karzai came under attack in the northeastern part of the country, just days before landmark elections.
Some 700 U.S. soldiers will be getting orders to ship out to Afghanistan on Friday, amid security concerns in the runup to October elections.
Afghanistan's interim President Hamid Karzai has escaped what the U.S. military described as an assassination bid when a rocket was fired at his helicopter while he was campaigning for next month's scheduled election.
President Bush on Tuesday claimed victory in the war on terrorism in Afghanistan and announced what he called five new initiatives to strengthen the links between that country and the United States.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has predicted that his nation will have "more of a security problem" in the run up to the long awaited elections to the Afghan Constitutional Assembly in September.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai predicted Thursday that recent violence in Afghanistan will increase with the approach of national elections planned for September, and called for more international aid to ensure they are not derailed.
The first execution of the post-Taliban era has taken place in Afghanistan after President Hamid Karzai "reluctantly" signed an order, his spokesman said.
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