The Transformation Of Afghanistan
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(CBS) CBS News Reporter Charles Wolfson is a former Tel Aviv bureau chief for CBS News, who now covers the State Department. Less than a month after the September 11, 2001 attacks on America, the Bush administration
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For 30 years coups, assassinations and invasions were the usual means of power transfer in Kabul. But yesterday Hamid Karzai broke with bloody tradition and assumed office with a simple formula of words.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- They arrived in December 2002 to do what had never been done : bring remote, unruly Paktia province under the control of a central Afghan government.
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NATO has assumed control of international forces across Afghanistan, taking charge of the east of the country from the US-led coalition that toppled the Taliban regime five years ago.
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Hamid Karzai has been cruising to victory in Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential elections, but the returns so far have underscored the ethnic fault lines that often divide the country.
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Afghanistan is on its way to becoming a "narco-state" and U.S. and NATO-led forces in the country should get more involved in fighting the drug trade as well as terrorists, according to a U.N. report released Thursday.
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HAMID Karzai was sworn in as Afghanistan&#39;s first democratically elected president last night, opening a new chapter for the impoverished nation that became the first battlefield in the US-led war on terrorism in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Hundreds of Taliban militants overran a southern Afghan town that British troops had left after a contentious peace agreement in October, destroying the government center and temporarily holding elders hostage, officials and residents said yesterday.
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KABUL, Afghanistan, Sept. 11 -- President Hamid Karzai moved Saturday to replace a powerful governor and militia leader who has long defied his authority and held virtually autonomous sway over one of the country's wealthiest regions.
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KABUL -- Preying on a weak government and rising public concerns about security, the Taliban is enjoying a military resurgence in Afghanistan and is now staging attacks just outside the capital, according to Western diplomats, private security analysts and aid workers.
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Organising the first presidential election in Afghanistan, a country largely without power, roads or literacy, has required a leap of imagination that has encompassed everything from donkeys to satellite phones.
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Concern grows over the progress of operations against Taliban and its effects on the unity of Nato
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Indications show that Afghanistan&#39;s Interim President Hamid Karzai has won the first presidential elections in the country&#39;s history.
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Afghanistan will undergo the first presidential elections in the country&#39;s history on October 9, 2004. As if surprised by the fact that Afghans could want a voice in their
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Women can be elected to parliament, but six years after the fall of the Taliban less than 30% of girls are enrolled in schools. Their absence could be Afghanistan's next crisis
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No longer threatened by the Soviets, NATO is now a global force. But Afghanistan shows that the enlarged alliance is not comfortable in its new role
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KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghanistan's first-ever direct presidential election began Saturday, with people across this ethnically diverse land casting the first ballots in an improbable experiment with democracy.    After 25 years of near constant war - and under a Taliban threat of ruinous violence - voters descended on bombed-out schools, blue-domed mosques, and bullet-pocked hospitals to choose their leader for the first time in their history...