A promising phase for Afghanistan
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DEAR readers, the day has finally arrived, when Afghanistan saw the installation of its first democratically elected president. Hamid Karzai has a new face today: he is not an imposed
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Before the kidnapping of three United Nations workers last month, Afghanistan's capital was beginning to build a reputation as a party town, but everything has changed in recent weeks.
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Britain may increase the number of troops it has in Afghanistan, according to a Nato spokesman.
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Six years after the fall of the Taliban, the fighting in Afghanistan is growing more intense &#151; but so is talk of peace.
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Nato's secretary general says a number of members have offered more military resources for Afghanistan.
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Afghanistan is at a &quot;tipping point&quot; ahead of an expected Taliban spring offensive, a hard-hitting report warned, despite upbeat comments from Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Prime Minister Tony Blair.
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Why  the Taleban have been able to stage a comeback in Afghanistan, by Paul Danahar with Bilal Sarwary.
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Preliminary figures in the Afghan poll suggest interim Hamid Karzai has won enough votes to be elected.
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At this week's summit, the alliance's success against Taliban insurgents was seen as key to its long-term relevance.
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Another milestone is on the horizon for the people of post-Taliban Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai takes the oath of office Dec. 7 as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president.
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KABUL In his inaugural address last week, President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan laid out his priorities for the next five years. Chief among them was stopping the country&#39;s growing drug trade.
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Defence and foreign ministers arrive in Edinburgh to discuss the future of Afghanistan.
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Hamid Karzai&#39;s inauguration as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president opens a new chapter in the battle to rescue this impoverished country, which became a haven for international terrorism and now risks turning into a narco-state.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- It was not exactly riveting: three candidates and the representatives of 12 others sat at a horseshoe-shaped table yesterday droning out near-identical speeches outlining plans to fight corruption, exploit the nation's untapped copper and gold resources, and improve pay for civil servants.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- As the US Black Hawk helicopter skimmed low over the desert, the signs of approaching spring were everywhere: melting frost in the hollows, the first shoots of green in the nearby fields, shrinking snowcaps on distant peaks.
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The NATO mission in Afghanistan threatens a rift between nations willing to participate in combat operations and those that are not.
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Convincing Afghans to oppose the Taliban depends on fulfilling promises of aid and reconstruction.