Former president Hamid Karzai urged authorities to reopen schools and universities for all girls in Afghanistan as country ...

Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai asked the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to extend and expand the mandate of multinational security forces in Afghanistan. Karzai made his remarks to the ...

Atmar said security has improved in some provinces and deteriorated in others, but he's confident the Taliban can be defeated. "We have to show the resolve, the determination, and the ability to make ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — When the Taliban reclaimed Kabul last August, the U.S.-backed government collapsed and hundreds of thousands of Afghans fled the country. Former president Hamid Karzai was not one ...

Obama and Karzai Stress Transition in Afghanistan, No Specifics Allowed As President Obama danced around questions about troop levels, he and Afghan President Hamid Karzai continued to press their ...

Does U.S. Understand the Karzai Problem? Dexter Filkins, in a long New York Times Magazine profile of top Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, worries that American forces don't ...

With Abdullah Abdullah out of the run-off election, Hamid Karzai has been declared re-elected as President of Afghanistan. In Kabul, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has offered congratulations, at ...

Afghan president fears his own son may flee the country. KABUL, Afghanistan Sept. 28, 2010 -- The U.S. and Afghan governments imagine a point in the not too distant future when American troops are ...

W A S H I N G T O N, Jan. 28 -- Peter Jennings interviewed Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai, in Washington, D.C. today, after President Bush welcomed Karzai to the White House and invited ...

Pakistan has warned the Afghan Taliban to meet its security demands or face support for opposition leaders. After failed ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai has agreed with a call from the country's conservative religious council for a crackdown on television stations, calling some of their programs "immoral ...