Karzai condemns U.S. troops using gunfire
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President Hamid Karzai on Thursday condemned the use of gunfire by U.S. troops to suppress Afghans angered by a traffic accident involving a military truck that sparked the worst riots in the capital since the fall of the Taliban.
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Hamid Karzai, who was sworn in Tuesday as Afghanistan&#39;s first popularly elected president, said today that he planned to destroy the country&#39;s flourishing poppy fields.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Two days after being sworn in as Afghanistan's first popularly elected president, Hamid Karzai called on his countrymen yesterday to wage holy war against the booming Afghan opium trade, which he described as a worse &quot;cancer&quot; than terrorism or the Soviet invasion of 1979.
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President Hamid Karzai says Western troops' failure to co-ordinate with Afghans is causing civilian casualties.
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Personnel from a private U.S. security firm in Afghanistan have engaged in "aggressive behavior" while protecting President Hamid Karzai, the State Department said Wednesday.
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The Taliban threatened Monday to launch  attacks during the swearing in of Afghan President Hamid Karzai  while the U.S. military said every precaution was being taken  to protect a ceremony to be attended by top U.S. officials.
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TORONTO, Sept. 22 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai made a forceful argument Friday for keeping Canadian troops in his country, appealing to a Canadian public wavering over growing casualties and the rise in fighting there.
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Nato says it needs to do better in its operations in Afghanistan, after a rebuke from President Hamid Karzai.
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KABUL, June 23 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai chastised U.S. and NATO-led troops Saturday for their "careless operations" and accused them of killing more than 90 civilians in the past 10 days, even as fresh reports emerged of more non-combatant deaths.
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The United States called on Taliban guerrillas to lay down their arms Thursday, saying Afghans had voted against violence and those who gave up their insurgency would not be punished unless they were guilty of major crimes.
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In the hours after President Hamid Karzai announced his cabinet at least five people were killed in a burst of Taliban-led violence across Afghanistan, officials said, highlighting how authorities have yet to quell an insurgency.
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Two battles killed more than 165 Taliban fighters and a U.S.-led coalition soldier in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday as President Hamid Karzai prepared to discuss the escalating violence with President Bush in New York
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that attacks perpetrated by &quot;terrorists&quot; infiltrating Afghanistan from neighbouring Pakistan were severely undermining relations between the two countries.
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The US rebukes a private security firm over the "aggressive behaviour" of its guards protecting the Afghan leader.
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French troops have shot dead a gunman in the Afghan capital, Kabul, after he opened fire on them, the US military says.
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GARDEZ, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai had to abort a rare campaign rally Thursday in this town southeast of the capital when a rocket was fired over his helicopter as it began to land.
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KABUL, Afghanistan -- A convoy carrying Vice President Nematullah Shahrani was attacked by remote-control explosives yesterday in northern Afghanistan, just four days after a rocket was fired at President Hamid Karzai's helicopter as it was landing at a school in southern Afghanistan.