Karzai’s rhetoric was noticeably muted at Monday’s news conference with Kerry, where he focused largely on his appreciation of the U.S. contribution in Afghanistan. With the handover of the Parwan detention center and the U.S. announcement
The text of the detainee agreement was not released. A senior defense official said Afghanistan will have full sovereign control of the facility, but “an Afghan-led process with an opportunity for U.S. input will determine the disposition of detainee
After weeks of lambasting the United States for its willfulness in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai reached an agreement with U.S. forces Wednesday over their withdrawal from Wardak province, on the western outskirts of Kabul.
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The head of NATO said it was "absolutely ridiculous" for Afghan President Hamid Karzai to accuse the United States of colluding with the Taliban and said Kabul should recognize sacrifices made by other countries on Afghanistan's behalf.
Afghan and U.S. officials are working on a compromise deal to allow American special forces to stay in a strategically key province near the capital in return for full Afghan control of a controversial jail, a top Kabul official said.
A dispute over the fate of about three dozen militants held by U.S. forces in Afghanistan has disrupted negotiations over a long-term security agreement to leave U.S. troops in the country after 2014.
An Afghan police officer opened fire Monday on a gathering of Americans and Afghans in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least two members of the U.S. Special Operations forces and five Afghan troops and police officers, officials said.
A helicopter crash in southern Afghanistan killed five members of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force, NATO said on Tuesday, although there were no immediate details about the cause of the crash.
Karzai raised another difficult issue when he denounced the alleged seizure of a university student Saturday by Afghan forces his aide said were working for the CIA. It was unclear why the student was detained.
One of the major metrics for the decade-long Afghanistan war is seriously flawed. Rather than fix the problem, the U.S.-NATO military command in Kabul has decided that you simply shouldn’t see the data.
NATO forces accidentally shot dead two boys during an operation in Afghanistan's south, the alliance said, in the latest in a series of incidents involving allegations of civilian deaths at the hands of international troops.
Afghan officials said they demanded the pullout of U.S. Special Operations forces because the NATO for months has ignored residents’ allegations of severe abuses committed by American troops and armed Afghans working with them.
The Afghan president ordered US special forces to leave Wardak province within 2 weeks. The decision was taken due to allegations of disappearances and torture by Afghans considered to be part of US special forces
Civilians are safer from harm in Afghanistan’s decade-long conflict than at any time since before the U.S. troop surge, according to new United Nations statistics.
A NATO airstrike killed 10 Afghan civilians, including five children, in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, local officials said, a toll that if confirmed is likely to raise tension between President Hamid Karzai's government and U.S.-led NATO forces.
President Obama’s decision to remove half of the 66,000 American troops in Afghanistan by this time next year represents a careful balancing of political interests and military requirements.
As the U.S. tries to hand over responsibility for the Afghan war to the new Afghan military it’s built, some very old weapons systems are poised to become crucial: the mortar and the howitzer.