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Kerry, Karzai bury hatchet in Kabul meeting
Eager to overcome a bout of bickering, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a show of unusual unity between their ...
US hands prison over to Afghans
The U.S. military gave control of its last detention facility in Afghanistan to Kabul on Monday, a year after the two sides initially agreed on the ...
Afghan president to visit Qatar
Afghan President Hamid Karzai will visit Qatar and discuss the possible opening of a Taliban office in the Gulf state, the foreign ministry said on ...
US, Karzai deal leaves most US commandos in Wardak
Afghanistan's president on Wednesday relented in his demand for all U.S. special operations forces to withdraw from a strategic province east of the ...
AP INTERVIEW: US general makes overtures to Karzai
The top U.S. military chief in Afghanistan said Monday that his team is working as fast as possible to resolve issues that have infuriated Afghan ...
AP EXCLUSIVE: Karzai opponents talk to Taliban
Afghan opposition parties, taking advantage of the government's lack of progress in making peace with the Taliban, have opened their own channel to ...
US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan, killing 1
A helicopter crashed in southern Afghanistan Saturday, killing one member of the U.S.-led coalition and injuring another in what was the second deadly ...
Afghan intelligence: Massive truck bomb seized
The Afghan intelligence service says it has seized a massive truck bomb packed with 17,200 pounds of explosives on the eastern outskirts of Kabul.
5 US troops die in helicopter crash in Afghanistan
A helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan has killed five American service members, officials said Tuesday. Monday night's crash brought the total ...
Insider attack kills 2 US troops, 2 Afghans
A police officer opened fire on U.S. and Afghan forces at a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, sparking a firefight that killed two ...
Angry Afghan villagers want US special forces out
An Afghan policeman gunned down two U.S. special forces on Monday in Wardak province, less than 24 hours after President Hamid Karzai's deadline ...
Afghan troubles spell tough start for Hagel
It's been a rough start for Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel. After surviving a combative Senate confirmation battle, he jumped on a military plane to ...
Security risks, frayed relations dog US, Afghans
A series of security problems and fractured relations with Afghan leaders plagued Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's first trip here as Pentagon chief, ...
Afghan leader alleges US, Taliban are colluding
Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday accused the Taliban and the U.S. of working in concert to convince Afghans that violence will worsen if most ...
Hagel: Optimistic on reaching commando agreement
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said he believes U.S. officials will be able to work things out with Afghan leaders who have ordered special ...
Bombs, clashes with Karzai mar Hagel's Afghan trip
Two suicide bombings and a host of looming disagreements with the Afghan president cast a shadow on Saturday over U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel's ...
Shiite leader: Sectarian attacks are 'genocide'
Pakistan's minority Shiite Muslims have started using the word "genocide" to describe a violent spike in attacks against them by a militant Sunni ...
Pentagon chief Hagel makes 1st trip to Afghanistan
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel arrived in Afghanistan Friday for his first visit as Pentagon chief, saying that there are plenty of challenges ahead ...
Contractor killed in attack in eastern Afghanistan
Three men wearing Afghan army uniforms and driving an Afghan army vehicle forced their way onto a U.S. base in eastern Afghanistan on Friday and ...
Karzai calls on Afghan troops to clean up own act
The Afghan president on Wednesday called on his security forces to end incidents of torture and abuse of the Afghan people, a shift from past speeches ...
Taliban attack trends: Never mind
The U.S.-led military command in Afghanistan will no longer count and publish the number of Taliban attacks, a statistical measure that it once touted ...
Afghan court sentences Kabul Bank execs to 5 years
An Afghan tribunal sentenced two top executives to five years in prison Tuesday for misappropriating hundreds of millions of dollars from the nation's ...
Afghans worry about international aid vacuum
Afghan street children are packed into classrooms, raising their hands to answer math questions and bending their heads over art projects as part of ...
Taliban kill 17 Afghans in attack in east
Taliban insurgents poisoned, then shot and killed 17 people as they slept at a local police post in eastern Afghanistan, one of two attacks in as many ...
Suicide bomber attacks Afghan army bus; 7 wounded
A man wearing a black overcoat and carrying an umbrella as a shelter against the heavy snow crossed a street in the Afghan capital early Wednesday ...