Karzai rebuffs Afghan council, won’t sign U.S. security deal
KABUL, Afghanistan — An angry President Hamid Karzai on Sunday rejected the final recommendation of a four-day Afghan grand assembly that he should promptly sign a security agreement with the United...
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Furious over drone death, Karzai mum after Taliban attack
KABUL, Afghanistan — As so often happens in the fog of war, the attack in a village in Kandahar on Friday missed the enemy patrol that was its intended target, instead killing an 8-year-old boy and...
View ArticleAfghan museum reassembles, recaptures its broken collection
KABUL, Afghanistan — Every piece of antiquity that is restored to the halls of the bombed, pillaged and now-rebuilt National Museum of Afghanistan sends a message of defiance and resilience. These are...
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Many Afghans still lack access to health care
KABUL, Afghanistan — The patients in the four hospitals run by Doctors Without Borders in Afghanistan are the lucky ones, by all accounts, having arrived at well-stocked facilities that maintain...
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Afghanistan frees detainees U.S. considers dangerous
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Thursday morning, the gates of the Parwan Detention Center near Bagram Air Field swung open and 65 men with long beards and new clothes walked out to freedom. The moment showed...
View ArticleCountries divided on future of ancient Afghan Buddhas
BAMIAN, Afghanistan — They were the picture-postcard view of a rural and mostly untouched Afghanistan: ancient, towering Buddhas that became a symbol of the Taliban’s religious fanaticism and...
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Taliban mistake armed compound for day-care center
KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban assailants apparently thought they were attacking an unprotected Christian-run day-care center. But they mistakenly burst into the compound next door, where a U.S....
View ArticleDuring bloody march in Iraq, militants display humor, savvy
BAGHDAD — When al-Qaida-style insurgents overran the northern city of Mosul, part of the war booty they seized were what they claimed were five U.S.-made helicopters. Noting the copters were nearly...
View ArticleIraq fighting grows; Sunni allies clash
BAGHDAD — The violent struggle over Iraq on Saturday consumed cities and towns widely spread over the north and west of the country, with Sunni militants and the Iraqi army claiming gains. An Iraqi...
View ArticleRussian fighter jets, experts to help Iraqi government
BAGHDAD — Iraqi government officials said Sunday that Russian experts had arrived to help the army get 12 new Russian warplanes into the fight against Sunni extremists, while the extremists declared...
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Afghanistan rivals agree to power-sharing deal
KABUL, Afghanistan — The two candidates for president of Afghanistan have agreed on a power-sharing deal that will give the losing candidate substantial influence in the next government, initialing the...
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Karzai lashes out: ‘America did not want peace for Afghanistan’
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s departing president, Hamid Karzai, used his final speech to his Cabinet and senior staff members Tuesday to make a bitter swipe at the United States and some of its...
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Afghan mullah who raped girl in mosque sentenced to 20 years
KABUL, Afghanistan — A mullah who raped a 10-year-old girl in his mosque was sentenced to 20 years in prison after a dramatic trial Saturday during which his accuser, weeping and shaking, summoned the...
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Young Afghan woman defies pledged marriage
KABUL, Afghanistan — Nine years before an Afghan girl named Soheila was born, her half-brother Aminullah eloped with a woman who had been betrothed to his cousin, an event that led to years of violent...
View ArticleOpium growing soars in Afghanistan
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan opium cultivation again rose to historic levels in 2014, U.N. officials reported Wednesday. And in a sign of how deeply entwined drug trafficking and the Afghan political...
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