Karzai's brother withdraws from Afghan electionThe brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Thursday dropped out of the country's election and endorsed Zalmai Rassoul, a move widely seen as signalling the current leader's prefered choice of successor.
06 March 2014
NATO airstrike kills five Afghan soldiers: Afghan officialsA NATO airstrike in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday accidentally killed five Afghan soldiers, government officials said, while the coalition said it was investigating reports of the incident.
06 March 2014
Next Afghan leader will sign security pact: KerryThe next president of Afghanistan will sign a security pact with the United States despite the refusal of outgoing leader Hamid Karzai, Secretary of State John Kerry confidently predicted.
27 February 2014
Obama warns Afghan president of full troop withdrawalPresident Barack Obama told Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that he is now planning for a full US troop withdrawal because of the Afghan leader's repeated refusal to sign a security pact.
26 February 2014
Afghanistan releases 65 'insurgents' despite US protests: officialsAfghanistan released 65 alleged Taliban fighters from jail on Thursday despite condemnation from the United States, which says the men could return to the battlefield to launch strikes against NATO and Afghan forces.
Syria, spying, Iran in focus at global security meetGlobal leaders from politics, defence and diplomacy meet in Germany from Friday to discuss conflict hotspots and looming threats, from Syria and Afghanistan to East Asia and Africa.
29 January 2014
Karzai suspects US behind Afghan bombings: reportAfghan President Hamid Karzai suspects the United States may have backed insurgent-style attacks to undermine his government but has no evidence to support his theory.
Obama defends Afghan strategy after Gates commentsBarack Obama insisted Monday he had faith in the Afghan war mission after former Pentagon chief Robert Gates charged the president lacked passion for military action and soured on his own troop surge.
14 January 2014
Killing of boy, 4, by US troops frays Afghan ties furtherAfghan President Hamid Karzai on Friday condemned US troops for killing a four-year-old boy in the southern province of Helmand, in a fresh strain to troubled relations between Washington and Kabul.
11 January 2014
Obama didn't believe his own war strategy: GatesFormer defense secretary Robert Gates has delivered a scathing critique of President Barack Obama's handling of the war in Afghanistan in a revealing new memoir, US media reported Tuesday.
08 January 2014
NATO soldier killed in Afghan multiple suicide attackSix Taliban suicide attackers launched an assault on a joint Afghan-NATO base in the east of Afghanistan on Saturday, killing one NATO soldier during a prolonged firefight, officials said.
Rockets explode in Kabul as foreigners mark ChristmasTwo rockets exploded in Kabul on Wednesday morning, causing no reported casualties but underlining Afghanistan's continuing security problems as many foreigners in the capital marked Christmas Day.
25 December 2013
Karzai warns against 'initimidation' on US troop dealAfghan President Hamid Karzai said he would not be bullied into signing a security pact to allow US troops to stay on after next year, as he tried to persuade India Friday to provide more military assistance.
13 December 2013
Hollywood immortalizes US disaster in AfghanistanHollywood has immortalized for post-Christmas release one of the deadliest incidents of the Afghan war: a Navy SEAL operation targeting a Islamist fighter that left 19 American soldiers dead.
10 December 2013
Afghan villages where Taliban rule at nightJahanzeb says he can no longer live in his home village in eastern Afghanistan where, when night falls, fear rules in "the kingdom of the Taliban".
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