Hamid Karzai News

A rocket attack near the luxury Serena Hotel in Kabul wounded four people, including at least one member of the Afghan security forces, a spokesman for Afghanistan's health ministry said Saturday.

US Defence Secretary Robert Gates has told a defence summit in Halifax, Canada that the United States will tighten control on Afghan aid, in an effort to reduce the corruption which has become epidemic in in the war-torn nation.

KABUL: Reiterating his strong stance that India is not serious in the process of dialogue with Pakistan, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday underlined that India had not given Pakistan a positive response in its proposal for the restoration of dialogue.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday predicted that she can corral enough moderate Democrats to guarantee passage of health care overhaul legislation - even if it doesn't contain a controversial House proposal that would expand abortion limits.

Is there any way to get around Afghan President Hamid Karzai? This question dominates the U.S. debate as President Obama prepares to announce his long-delayed Afghan strategy.

ISLAMABAD: Secretary General Pakistan Muslim League-Q Mushahid Hussain Sayed on Friday asked President Hamid Karzai not to allow the use of Afghan land against Pakistan under Indian designs.

The Federal Government is sending a new ambassador to Afghanistan to observe the Karzai Government's promised crackdown on corruption.

The Pakistani government has some advice the Obama administration may not want to hear as it contemplates sending additional U.S. troops to neighboring Afghanistan: Negotiate with Taliban leaders and restrain India.

The Afghan government could fall within weeks if Nato pulled out troops now, David Miliband warned today as he urged British opponents of the war to give the fight to rebuild the country more time.

Underpaid, under-equipped and under-trained, Afghanistan's 93,000-member police force is the weak link in an ambitious security strategy to hand over defense of the country to Afghans so American and other foreign troops can go home.

Just a day after Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged that respect for women's rights is among his top agenda items, Afghan diplomats at the United Nations will oppose a Canadian-led bid to highlight serious human rights abuse in Iran.

At least 13 people were killed in a suicide bombing Friday morning in Afghanistan's western Farah province, police said.

Would N.Y. jury use death penalty in 9/11 trial? Besides historical record, juries might be wary of creating a martyr Video A A Civilian courts debated Nov.

Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon emphatically stated Thursday that disaffected diplomat Richard Colvin's claims that all detainees handed over to Afghan authorities by Canadian troops were subsequently tortured were unproven.

Some basic facts and figures about Afghanistan, where President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated Thursday to a second five-year term: GEOGRAPHY: Mountainous and landlocked.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai promised Thursday to prosecute corrupt officials and end a culture of impunity in an inauguration speech made under intense international pressure that he shed the cronyism and graft that marked his first term.

There can be no military resolution to the war in Afghanistan, only a political one.

On the eve of Hamid Karzai's inauguration for another term as Afghanistan's president, there are continued U.S. concerns about his government.

Afghanistan's president Hamid Karzai is to provide 5,000 troops to help hold ground taken by British forces in Helmand, Gordon Brown has told MPs.

Quebec Public Security Minister Jacques Dupuis announces the creation of a special squad, called OpA©ration Marteau, to look into allegations of corruption and collusion in the Montreal construction ... Canada is viewed as one of the least corrupt countries in the world and is an "inspiration" for the U.S. and other nations in North and South ...