”Afghanistan” News

Interview: Hamid Karzai

With Afghanistan reeling from fresh attacks on Western forces, TIME correspondent Aryn Baker spoke to the country's president Hamid Karzai about a range of subjects, including relations with Pakistan now that his testy neighbor Pervez Musharraf is resigning ; and charges of corruption against members of his government and against his younger brother Wali Karzai.
08 21 2008 9:01PM (...more)

Afghan election's third-place vote-getter operates from tent

KABUL, Afghanistan — In the aftermath of the discredited Afghan elections, Western diplomats went to the Arg Palace to call on President Hamid Karzai ,
09 26 2009 6:03AM (...more)

Pakistan resumes forcing Afghan refugees to return home

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Pakistani authorities have resumed sending tens of thousands of Afghan refugees, many of whom have lived for decades in camps near the Afghanistan - Pakistan border , back to Afghanistan .
04 22 2008 2:29PM (...more)

Government condemns 'abhorrent' Kandahar attack: foreign minister

LONDON (AFP) - Foreign Secretary David Miliband condemned the "cowardly and abhorrent" suicide blast that killed up to 80 men and boys at a dog fight in Kandahar, Afghanistan , on Sunday.
02 18 2008 8:48AM (...more)

CQ Transcript: Sens. Levin, Graham on NBC's 'Meet the Press'

CQ Transcriptswire SPEAKERS: DAVID GREGORY , HOST SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM, R-S.C. SEN. CARL LEVIN , D-MICH.
10 12 2009 3:11PM (...more)

Afghan fight drawing foreign jihadis

Washington - This week's brazen and deadly attack on a US-Afghan outpost in an area near the Pakistani border is raising new concerns that foreign fighters bent on fighting the West are retraining their sights from Iraq to Afghanistan and Pakistan .
07 16 2008 11:39PM (...more)

Afghanistan may plunge into 'failed state,' experts warn

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Insurgency-wracked Afghanistan will become a failed state if urgent steps are not taken to tackle a deteriorating security situation and lackluster reconstruction and governance efforts, experts warned in separate reports Wednesday.
01 31 2008 8:27AM (...more)

Helping Afghan Women and Girls

02 5 2009 2:18AM (...more)

A 'surge' for Afghanistan?

Kabul, Afghanistan - The top general of the Marine Corps is pushing hard to deploy marines to Afghanistan as he looks to draw down his forces in Iraq , but his proposal, which is under discussion at the Pentagon this week, faces deep resistance from other military leaders.
11 29 2007 7:12PM (...more)

First lady focuses on signs of Afghan progress

BAMIYAN, Afghanistan - First lady Laura Bush , on a mission to highlight signs of progress in war-weary Afghanistan , ventured outside the capital Sunday to an area that symbolizes both the destruction and attempt at rebirth.
06 9 2008 3:35AM (...more)