A member of Afghan upper house of the parliament “Mesharano Jirga” was gunned down in a fight that broke out between the provincial police and the...

UN believes that over 6 Million poeple in Afghanistan need help in terms of food staples while 30,000 of them are in dire help of food on emergency basis. As per the...

Some international contractors, hired by the United States to build roads and other large construction projects in Afghanistan, are paying Taliban insurgents not to...

While international forces in Afghanistan battle militants hiding in the mountains, aid agencies are fighting an even more elusive enemy: malnutrition. The World Food...

President Hamid Karzai, whose cabinet nominations are under scrutiny by both Afghans and Western countries that aid Afghanistan, sought to reassure the world on Sunday...

Yesterday saw the closing of a three-day national conference to identify “best practices and effective measures” in the fight against corruption. The...

A foreign reporter along with his two afghan colleagues who were kidnapped six days ago were freed in the eastern province of Kunar along the border with...

PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd has delivered his last ditch play to the Copenhagen climate change conference in an address to the main session as an estimated 140 world...

The night his 11-year-old son escaped from kidnappers, Abdul Aziz bundled a few belongings into a car and drove his family 18 miles north across the Afghan border into...

For the first time in eight years of his rule has he dared speak the truth and explain his powerlessness to a public that is least interested in his words and more in...

By 10 a.m. this morning, the day looked bright. The sun was shining on Kabul, taking the chill out of the bones. I’d had my breakfast of cereal and tea and read...

Even near military bases, female veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan aren’t often offered a drink on the house as a welcome home. More than 230,000...

David Headley case is getting murkier day by day, confirming the worst fears. Perhaps like Pakistan, USA is also paying for its sins which go back to cold war era. As...

At least eight people have been killed in a suicide bombing in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, officials say. The blast happened near a hotel in Wazir Akbar Khan...

Meet the measuring stick of America’s Pentagon: In other words, the Pentagon determined that 30 casualties, even if they were civilian, were too few to matter...

Taliban fighters attacked checkpoints in northern and southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing 16 members of the Afghan National police. Eight policemen were killed...

Attorney General of Afghanistan reported the arrest of Wahab-ud-Din Sadaat, Secretary to the Mayor of Kabul on charges of corruption. Sources revealed that Mr. Sadaat...

Welcoming 30,000 troops coupled with at least 7000 NATO forces, Afghanistan doesn’t appear at all ready for taking up the security responsibilities nor is the...

The phenomenon of Global Warming has brought the world together in Copenhagen to face its common enemy that it has created itself. This phenomenon takes me directly to...

During yesterday’s hearings before the House and Senate Armed Service Committees, General Stanley McChrystal and Ambassador Karl Eikenberry presented a unified...