Ahmad Wali Karzai
US operations already started in Kandahar: commanders
Mar 18, 2010 12:31 EDT
Operations to push the Taliban out of their Afghan stronghold of Kandahar are under way and will steadily build in the months ahead, military officials said Thursday.
US operations 'already started in Kandahar'
Mar 18, 2010 10:15 EDT
Operations to push the Taliban out of their Afghan stronghold of Kandahar are under way and will steadily build in the months ahead, military officials said Thursday.
US operations already started in Kandahar: commanders
Mar 18, 2010 10:10 EDT
Operations to push the Taliban out of their Afghan stronghold of Kandahar are under way and will steadily build in the months ahead, military officials said Thursday.
US operations already started in Kandahar: commanders
Mar 18, 2010 08:58 EDT
Operations to push the Taliban out of their Afghan stronghold of Kandahar are under way and will steadily build in the months ahead, military officials said Thursday.
US operations 'already started' in Kandahar
Mar 18, 2010 04:43 EDT
Operations to push the Taliban out of their iconic Afghan stronghold of Kandahar are underway and will steadily build in the months ahead, military officials said Thursday.
U.S. troops leave border to Afghan boss accused of graft
Mar 17, 2010 20:12 EDT
SPIN BOLDAK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - One of the most important trade routes in Asia was closed last week while a boyish-looking man everyone calls "the general" showed around the commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan.
US operations have already started in Kandahar: commander
Mar 17, 2010 15:29 EDT
US operations to push back Taliban forces around Kandahar have "already begun" and will steadily build in coming months, the commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan said Wednesday.
US operations have already started in Kandahar: commander
Mar 17, 2010 12:48 EDT
US operations to push back Taliban forces around Kandahar have "already begun" and will steadily build in coming months, the commander of US and NATO troops in Afghanistan said on Wednesday.
NATO forces capture huge cache of drugs, weapons
Jan 08, 2010 13:03 EST
International forces in Afghanistan said Friday they seized a huge cache of opium, heroin and weapons in southern Kandahar province, a centre of illegal drugs production fuelling a Taliban insurgency.
Should Afghanistan's next election be delayed?
Dec 25, 2009 20:16 EST
Afghanistan's donors fear May parliamentary election disaster, some mull possibility of delay. Five months before parliamentary elections in Afghanistan, donor nations are worried about another messy vote and some international officials are even discussing whether the polls should be delayed.
AP Interview: Karzai praises Obama's deadline
Dec 04, 2009 01:57 EST
AP Interview: Karzai puts brave face on 2011 deadline for beginning of US troop withdrawal. President Hamid Karzai put a brave face Thursday on President Barack Obama's decision to start pulling out troops in mid-2011, telling The Associated Press in his first public response that it will push Afghans to take control of their own destiny.
Obama aides pressed on Afghan graft, al Qaeda
Dec 03, 2009 18:58 EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers told President Barack Obama's top advisers on Thursday not enough was being done to combat corruption in Afghanistan, singling out allegations against the Afghan president's brother, whom Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged was a problem.
Obama aides pressed on Afghan graft, al Qaeda
Dec 03, 2009 18:58 EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers told President Barack Obama's top advisers on Thursday not enough was being done to combat corruption in Afghanistan, singling out allegations against the Afghan president's brother, whom Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged was a problem.
Obama aides pressed on Afghan graft, al Qaeda
Dec 03, 2009 18:04 EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers told President Barack Obama's top advisers on Thursday not enough was being done to combat corruption in Afghanistan, singling out allegations against the Afghan president's brother, whom Defense Secretary Robert Gates acknowledged was a problem.
Q&A of AP interview with Hamid Karzai
Dec 03, 2009 16:43 EST
Q&A of AP interview with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Afghan President Hamid Karzai spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday about the newly announced U.S. war plan and other issues. Here are some questions and answers from the interview:
Obama's Afghan "surge" sets sights on Kandahar
Nov 30, 2009 09:38 EST
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A year ago, mobile phones worked just fine in the pomegranate orchards and vineyards along the Arghandab river on the outskirts of Afghanistan's second largest city, Kandahar.
Governor of Afghanistan's Kandahar survives bomb
Nov 27, 2009 04:28 EST
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The governor of Afghanistan's southern Kandahar province survived a bomb strike on his motorcade while heading to prayers for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday on Friday, a spokesman said.
Afghan president's brother is lightning rod
Nov 18, 2009 01:49 EST
Afghan president Karzai's brother is lightning rod for critics abroad. He calls himself a wheeler dealer ? an old-style power broker who maneuvers through a murky, dangerous world of intelligence, tribal intrigue and, some critics allege, guns and drugs.
Poverty, corruption key in Afghan war: Oxfam
Nov 17, 2009 19:00 EST
Poverty and corruption are driving the war in Afghanistan, says a survey released Wednesday by British charity Oxfam and local organisations on the eve of President Hamid Karzai's inauguration.
Poverty, corruption key in Afghan war: Oxfam
Nov 17, 2009 19:00 EST
Poverty and corruption are driving the war in Afghanistan, says a survey released Wednesday by British charity Oxfam and local organisations on the eve of President Hamid Karzai's inauguration.