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 ...

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 ...

Former Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has accused Pakistan of using military and economic pressure to push Afghanistan toward recognizing the disputed Durand Line frontier.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — The Taliban didn't take the Afghan capital — they were invited, says the man who issued the invitation. In an Associated Press interview, former Afghan President Hamid Karzai ...

When the Taliban reclaimed Kabul last August, the U.S.-backed government collapsed and hundreds of thousands of Afghans fled the country. Former... Hamid Karzai stays on in Afghanistan — hoping for ...

Uncovering the brutal career of a crucial American ally — and the hidden truths of the war in Afghanistan. By Matthieu Aikins and Victor J. Blue Against all predictions, the Taliban took the Afghan ...

Taliban insurgents poisoned, then shot and killed 17 people as they slept at a local police post in eastern Afghanistan, one of two attacks in as many days targeting Afghan security forces, an ...

Hamid Karzai warns Afghanistan could lose thousands of female teachers and health workers as girls’ education bans continue, ...

Even if Presidents Barack Obama and Hamid Karzai have moved beyond their recent public mutual recriminations, their White House meeting on Wednesday will take place against a backdrop of tension over ...

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 ...

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 ...

While the war in Iraq has dominated recent headlines, the U.S.-led effort to combat al-Qaida and Taliban elements in Afghanistan continues. Afghan President Hamid Karzai discusses efforts to hold ...