Chicago: NATO will hand over the lead role in combat operations to Afghan forces across the country by mid-2013, alliance leaders said on Sunday as they charted a path out of a war that has lost public support and strained budgets in Western nations. A NATO summit in Chicago on Monday will formally endorse a US-backed strategy for a gradual exit from Afghanistan, a move aimed at holding together an...
08:57 AM, May 21, 2012
Washington: The 10-year security compact that President Barack Obama signed with Afghan President Hamid Karzai contains promises the United States and Afghanistan cannot guarantee they will keep, and loopholes for both nations. The deal signed on Tuesday also allows either nation to walk away on a year's notice. That could allow the next US president, or the next Afghan leader, to scuttle a deal negotiated by his or her predecessor....
12:35 PM, May 03, 2012
Kabul: Afghanistan's president has branded his US allies as corrupt, wasteful and contemptuous of Afghan lives. Once he even threatened to join the Taliban. Nonetheless, Hamid Karzai signed a deal that could keep thousands of US troops in his country for years. Despite his rhetoric, Karzai needs international support if Afghanistan is to survive economically and avoid descending into civil war like it did when the Soviets left two decades...
02:43 AM, May 03, 2012
Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai condemned photographs of US soldiers posing with the bloodied remains of three suicide bombers as "disgusting" and said on Thursday that only a quicker exit of international forces can prevent such missteps. Karzai joined top American officials in denouncing that two-year-old photos, the latest in a string of embarrassing controversies that have jeopardised relations between the two countries in the midst of negotiations over the...
11:03 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said that the war on terrorism had not been conducted satisfactorily for the last many years. ...
10:12 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Kabul: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that a coordinated Taliban attack showed a "failure" by Afghan intelligence and especially by NATO, as heavy street fighting between insurgents and security forces came to an end after 18 hours. Battles which broke out at midday on Sunday gripped the city's central districts through the night, with large explosions and gunfire lighting up alleys and streets. "The fact terrorists were able...
08:33 PM, Apr 16, 2012
Kabul: Afghan Taliban insurgents have attacked the heavily-guarded palace compound of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said in a second statement on Sunday. There was no independent verification of the claim. Large explosions and heavy automatic gunfire continued to rock central Kabul as dusk approached, continuing a nearly five-hour gunbattle in locations across the country and in the diplomatic enclave of the capital. ...
08:02 PM, Apr 15, 2012
Washington: The Taliban's suspension of preliminary peace talks is a tactical move reflecting internal tensions, US officials believe, rather than a definitive halt to discussions the White House hopes will bring a peaceful end to the war in Afghanistan. US officials had been bracing themselves for backlash from the militant group following a string of public setbacks that have scandalized and angered Afghans, notably US soldiers' burning of copies of...
01:06 AM, Mar 23, 2012
Kabul: The massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a US soldier has not derailed talks on a pact with Washington which would allow some US forces to stay in Afghanistan after a 2014 withdrawal deadline, a senior Afghan official said on Sunday. Washington and Kabul have been holding discussions for more than a year on keeping some US special forces and advisers in the country - a highly sensitive topic...
02:47 AM, Mar 19, 2012
Washington: The US Army identified the soldier implicated in the massacre of 16 villagers in Afghanistan this week as Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, and said he arrived on Friday at a Kansas base where he will be held in a solitary cell. Bales, a four-tour veteran, is suspected of walking off his base in southern Afghanistan on Sunday and gunning down the 16 civilians, including nine children and three women,...
08:04 AM, Mar 18, 2012
Kabul: The US and the Afghan governments should work together for an early handover of security responsibility, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai has said. According to a Karzai office statement, the Afghan president told visiting US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta Thursday that "both sides should work together for a security handover from international forces to Afghan troops to take place by 2013 instead of 2014". "The Afghan government is ready to...
05:01 AM, Mar 16, 2012
Kabul: President Hamid Karzai called for NATO troops to leave Afghan villages and confine themselves to major bases after the slaughter of 16 civilians by an American soldier, underscoring fury over the massacre and clouding US exit plans. In a near-simultaneous announcement, the Afghan Taliban said it was suspending nascent peace talks with the United States that had been seen as a strong chance to end the country's decade-long conflict,...
02:39 AM, Mar 16, 2012
Kabul: Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents said on Thursday they were suspending peace talks with the United States because of the "shaky, erratic and vague" US position. US and Taliban negotiators were believed to have had preliminary contacts aimed at establishing an office for the Taliban in the Gulf state of Qatar to launch peace negotiations. Even though substantial talks have yet to begin, the Taliban announcement will dent hopes of a...
06:20 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New Delhi: The Taliban has vowed to avenge the killings after 16 Afghan civilians including 9 children died when a US soldier ran amok in two villages near his camp on Sunday. The soldier later returned to his base and turned himself in. US President Barack Obama reportedly called Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and expressed shock over the killings. The US has called the shooting spree in Kandahar by an...
06:46 AM, Mar 13, 2012
Washington: President Barack Obama on Sunday called his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai to express shock over the killing of 16 civilians, mostly women and children in Kandahar by a US soldier and assured him to hold fully accountable anyone responsible, the White House has said. "President Obama extended his condolences to the people of Afghanistan, and made clear his Administration's commitment to establish the facts as quickly as possible and...
10:10 AM, Mar 12, 2012
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