Hamid Karzai said:“We, as you said rightly, are known as the graveyard of empires, not because we wanted Afghanistan to be the graveyard for those empires but because of the way those empires behaved worse and the consequences were the collapse of those empires”, president Karzai responded to a question regarding Afghanistan, being known as the graveyard of empires.
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Corruption is a huge problem for the U.S. in Afghanistan. So why is the CIA funding it?
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The use of strongmen to fight Al Qaida and Taliban has fragmented the tribal system and made civil war a real possibility after US forces leave
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Transfer ends one of several bitter standoffs straining bilateral ties as US secretary of state meets Karzai in Kabul.Afghanistan has taken full control of Bagram military prison from the US, as US-led forces wind down more than
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has leveled serious accusations at U.S. military forces in his nation, claiming they have been involved in the torture and murder of “innocent people.” Karzai ordered U.S. special forces to leave a strategically
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Afghanistan's security forces are scheduled to take the lead in the fight against insurgents in the spring. Despite all the difficulties, ISAF spokesman said. The Nato-led force in Afghanistan has rejected a UN report accusing the US of killing
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Days after Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Obama seemed to agree on the future role of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, a division has emerged over one of the American military’s most prized defense programs.
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The Afghanistan transition process, which started in July 2011, is well under way and will be under progress even after 2014.
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The Ministry of Defence is to double the size of its armed drone fleet in Afghanistan - and will run its 'spies in the skies' from the UK for the first time.Britain's defense secretary says thousands of troops will leave Afghanistan next year,
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America's longest war began on October 7, 2001, when U.S. special forces entered Afghanistan to help topple the Taliban regime. That mission was accomplished in weeks, not months. With heavy backing from the United States, Hamid Karzai emerged as the head of a nascent government in the long-war-torn country.
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The Afghan conflict, America's longest war, is now in its 12th year and both President Barack Obama and his challenger Mitt Romney are stressing their determination to bring the majority of US troops home by the end of 2014.
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Toofan-e Harridrod have become the first winners of the Afghanistan Premier League with a 2-1 win over Simurgh-e-Alburz
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NATO's top official said Thursday the alliance remains committed to help enable Afghan forces assume full responsibility for the country's security after 2014, when coalition troops are due to end their combat mission.
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The US is like a drunkard who charges to war with anyone who might pose a threat, ex-Senator and former US presidential candidate Mike Gravel says.
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It is officially the longest-running war in American history, and its end is in sight: President Obama has promised to pull all US combat troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014. US marked the 11th anniversary of war in Afghanistan. More than 2,000 American soldiers have now been killed
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The vulnerability of the recently reopened Pakistani transit route supplying NATO troops in Afghanistan has been a headache for over a decade. But the real problem will emerge once troops start to withdraw – with Russia ready to shoulder the burden.
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The America-Pakistan alliance should be divorced after decades of fruitless expectations, declared a former Pakistani ambassador to the US. The Washington and Islamabad union has been prejudiced by continuous “Drones vs Militants” wrangle.
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The last of the 33,000 US soldiers that President Barack Obama sent to Afghanistan nearly three years ago as part of a military surge have left the country, US defense officials said.
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An encouraging and growing 53 %of Americans expect the West and the Muslim world to be able to find common ground
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Local officials in Yemen say that a United States-led drone strike over the weekend there killed 13 civilians. Members of the Yemeni government tells reporters that an unmanned aerial vehicle operated remotely by the United States military executed more than a dozen civilians, including three women, near the town of Rada in al-Baitha province on Sunday.
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Victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks will be remembered at a new World Trade Centre where workers are completing the last floors of the main 104-storey-tower. The war in Afghanistan, launched after the 9/11 attacks over the Taliban's alliance with Al-Qaeda and Iraq invasion has steadily lost popular support
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U.S. Open 2012: Ryan McIntosh, Army Specialist, Lost Leg In Afghanistan, Works As Ballperson
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Noor Mohammad is a 58-year-old farmer living in Kandahar province of southern Afghanistan. He and his family grow poppy for a living. In his long-stretched poppy field, Noor told Xinhua, "I know it is banned, but we have to grow poppy. Planting wheat and other things cannot support our families."
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DURING the past five years the war on terror in Afghanistan has cost New Zealand $NZ185 million ($A143.07 million).
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Unlike Annan, veteran Algerian diplomat knows the fears, concerns and mentality of the Syrians
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On the surface, the country is beset with challenges such as terrorism and political uncertainty, but a deeper look reveals its fundamentals are strong
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Thousands of US soldiers are going into battle fueled by all sorts of prescription medications, be they amphetamines, antidepressants, sedatives or others. Largely unmonitored consumption of drugs can lead to aberrant behavior and mental disorders.
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World leaders meeting in Tokyo pledged $16 billion in more aid to Afghanistan
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A woman accused of adultery was executed with gunshots in a public square in a village near Kabul. Unfortunately the hoped process of democratization is slow but we can be sure that little by little, the Taliban will appreciate more and more the benefits of the Western civilization.
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Generating new anxieties about a key pillar of the Western exit strategy, an elite Afghan policeman opened fire on British troops, killing three of them, officials said Monday. The Taliban claimed responsibility
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