Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Tuesday it will be at least 15 years before his government can bankroll a security force strong enough to protect the country from the threat of insurgency. (Dec. 8)
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(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: December 17, 2009) Two days before Afghan President Hamid Karzai is due to name his new cabinet, a report accusing two high-ranking Afghan cabinet officials of corruption was deemed a "misunderstanding". In Copenhagen, the global climate change summit is drawi...
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(Al Jazeera English News Headlines: December 15, 2009) Bombers struck yesterday in Iraq, the Afghan capital of Kabul, and in Pakistan. President Hamid Karzai convened a conference on corruption in Afghanistan, and Al Jazeera English looks at the disappearing funds marked to build a highway outsi...
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As President Obama sends more troops to Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has urged President Karzai’s military to take greater initiative. Terry McCarthy reports from Kabul.
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(Al Jazeera English: November 2, 2009) After his chief rival Abdullah Abdullah withdrew from the runoff election, Hamid Karzai was named president of Afghanistan for five more years. In Pakistan, dozens have been killed in a bomb attack in the city of Rawalpindi. Also, international tribunals wa...
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(Al Jazeera English: November 19, 2009) Hamid Karzai has been sworn in to serve his second term as president of Afghanistan. In Pakistan, another suicide bomber has attacked the city of Peshawar outside of a courthouse. Also, Argentina’s congress has passed a law requiring its citizens to underg...
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This past week in Afghanistan, President Hamid Karzai began his second term after an election riddled with widespread fraud. At his inauguration, Karzai sat
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(NECN/APTV) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited troops in the volatile part of southern Afghanistan on Sunday, where thousands more coalition forces are to be deployed. More than 9-thousand British troops are stationed in southern....
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President Obama has at last made a decision about the future of the U.S. in Afghanistan. But the plan includes an unexpected time limit that will increase pressure for Afghanistan’s President Karzai as well as American trainers there. WSJ's Peter Spiegel reports.
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This Al Jazeera English news update covers the aftermath of the military coup that deposed the Honduran president Manuel Zelaya, as well as the demands of Afghan president Hamid Karzai that the U.S. military hand over private security guards believed by the Afghan government to be responsible fo...
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<p>(Mosaic Intelligence Report: October 29, 2009) Election run-off is few days away in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai’s brother is on the CIA's payroll. Should Obama send more troops to Afghanistan? And can the Taliban be defeated? <br />Read more on the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpos...
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