Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “On this proud occasion and for a truly independent and self-sufficient Afghanistan, I once again ask the caretaker government to ...

At least 37 civilians were killed and several injured in a gun attack in Herat, as former Afghanistan president Hamid Karzai ...

Other Facts: A member of the Popalzai clan, part of the larger Pashtun tribe. Karzai was educated in India and is fluent in several languages, including English, Pashto, Dari and Urdu. His grandfather ...

Barack Obama will have to do some awfully embarrassing things as president. The whole pardoning the turkey thing on the eve of Thanksgiving comes to mind. And then there's the taking John Boehner ...

Runoff election taking months likely; meanwhile, bombings kill more than 40, including four U.S. soldiers. A policeman stands at the site after five car bombs detonated simultaneously in Afghanistan’s ...

The top senator on the Armed Services Committee is urging President Obama to stop insisting that Afghan President Hamid Karzai sign a post-war agreement with the U.S. and instead let a “more reliable” ...

Afghan President Karzai meets President Obama at the White House for wide-ranging talks on Afghanistan Wednesday. The meeting is ahead of a major U.S. military operation in the southern province of ...

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 ...

On Sunday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai shocked Afghan and international observers when he reached out to the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, offering him a guarantee of safety if he agrees to ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai's relationship with the U.S. and UN has chilled in recent days, following a series of diplomatic incidents that widened a rift between Karzai and the international forces ...