'Rebel' governor rejects Karzai offer
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The Herat governor replaced by Afghan President Hamid Karzai refuses his appointment to the cabinet.
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A senior Afghan figure asks the Nato-led military force Isaf for help tackling official corruption, but is denied.
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Afghan presidential candidate Yunus Qanooni adjusts his glasses during an interview in Kabul on Sunday, Oct.17. 2004. Hamid Karzai&#39;s closest rival in Afghanistan&#39;s landmark election refused to concede defeat
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Sudanese rebel leaders&#39; demand that Islam be kept out of government in the war-torn region of Darfur, has been rejected by government negotiators.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- The Afghan government has fired the governor of its biggest drug-producing province, a center of Taliban resistance that has seen some of the country's heaviest fighting this year, officials said yesterday.
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On Wednesday, Karzai issued a decree ordering a traditional Eid prisoner amnesty but a presidential official insisted the order did not cover the prisoners the militants want freed.
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Powerful regional Afghan commander Ismail Khan was effectively dismissed as governor of Herat city Saturday and declined a promotion to the cabinet of President Hamid Karzai.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has dismissed a call that he resign as unconstitutional, but said his challengers had the right to make the demand.
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KABUL  - Incumbent leader Hamid Karzai&#39;s chief rival Yunus Qanooni told AFP he would accept the outcome of Afghanistan&#39;s presidential election despite his allegations of fraud.
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A protest ends in violence in western Herat amid a struggle between President Karzai and the local governor.
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The main challenger to President Hamid Karzai said yesterday that he had accepted a proposal by the United Nations and the US ambassador to start an independent
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A Pakistani rebel leader refused to meet a council of tribal elders trying to secure the release of two Chinese hostages held by his group.
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Hundreds of Taliban fighters may abandon  their insurgency in Afghanistan as a result of peace talks  under way between local commanders and President Hamid Karzai's  government, a provincial governor said on Saturday.
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An Afghan Cabinet minister resigned Monday after President Hamid Karzai rejected his drive to shut down relief groups he accused of wasting money on expensive cars and houses.
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Calling militant attacks "cowardly work," President Hamid Karzai on Wednesday deplored a suicide bombing that killed 12 children and accused the fighters of running from battle by donning women's clothing.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai dismissed a powerful warlord from his post as provincial governor in the latest move to solidify the central government's control of wayward provinces ahead of October's landmark polls.
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Afghanistan's first democratically elected president, Hamid Karzai, strongly hinted in an interview that he will not run for another term in office.