In the 30 years since Ghulam Ali bought his yellow-and-white taxi and drove it home from Saudi Arabia, all of Afghan life - from expectant brides to dying war wounded - has occupied its back seat.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that Iranian support for the Taliban in Afghanistan isn't much of a problem for the United States - yet.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Thursday that Pakistan has an "important" role to play in peace talks with the Taliban, a possible attempt to squash speculation that his government was trying to sideline its neighbor.
The Pashtun tribal leaders picked at the chocolate cake and fruit laid out for them at the conference table. Politely, they listened to speeches touting a new program to release detainees from Afghanistan's largest U.S.-run military prison if community leaders vouch for them.
If there is one thing that just about everyone can agree upon when it comes to Afghanistan, it's that the battle against Taliban insurgents can not be won by military means alone. Instead, it's going ...
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband called Wednesday for early and substantive political negotiations between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban and other insurgent groups, saying that ...
A speech on Afghanistan by British Foreign Secretary David Miliband highlights the growing concern that the military surge led by the United States is not being matched by a political surge by the ...
The shooting is largely over in the Marjah area of southern Afghanistan that was recaptured by U.S. and Afghan forces last month. But a deadly threat remains: homemade bombs. Taliban fighters have ...