KABUL: The American campaign in Afghanistan has suffered a double blow: The Taliban broke off talks with the US, and President Hamid Karzai said NATO should pull out of rural areas and speed up the transfer of security responsibilities to Afghan (...)
KABUL: Six suicide bombers attacked a USAID compound Friday in northern Afghanistan, killing at least four people and wounding several others, officials said. Two of the dead were foreigners.
The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, (...)
KABUL: Delegates to an Afghan peace conference voiced strong support Friday for negotiations between their government and the Taliban to try to end years of war.
Speakers at the conference, or peace jirga, raised expectations that it would (...)