Without a clear action plan, Pakistan will not support the United States-driven reconciliation plans for Afghanistan.
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/ 8 February 2012
The US’s chief envoy to Afghanistan, Marc Grossman, has met with Taliban leaders in Qatar as part of efforts to get the rebels to negotiate.
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/ 1 February 2012
The US says the Taliban are set to retake control of Afghanistan when Nato withdraws, raising fears of a failure of Western policy after a costly war.
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/ 20 January 2012
Afghan incident shows it is no longer surprising that violence and cruelty are self-documented, writes Jonathan Jones.
Afghanistan will open an embassy in Greece to help thousands of Afghan asylum seekers stranded while seeking a better life in Europe.
Inmates in Afghanistan’s US-run Bagram Prison have faced abuses including torture, beatings and other mistreatment, according to a government report.
The United States has agreed in principle to release high-ranking Taliban officials from Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
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/ 26 December 2011
Afghanistan will accept a Taliban office in Qatar to help peace talks but no foreign power can get involved in the process without its consent.
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/ 15 December 2011
In a move that has highlighted ‘moral crimes’ in Afghanistan, a woman who was jailed after being raped by a cousin has been released from prison.
An Afghan woman has an average of five babies in her lifetime — with mothers saying it is hard, lonely and frightening.
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/ 2 December 2011
The gathering of world leaders at the International Afghanistan Conference in Bonn on December 5 is timely.
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/ 1 December 2011
A top US military officer says a Nato attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers was not deliberate, while Pakistan maintains Nato forces were alerted.
Pakistan is up in arms over the cross-border air attack by Nato that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, saying it was a deliberate act of aggression.
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/ 30 October 2011
The latest deaths of US troops in an apparent Kabul suicide attack come as support back home for the war reaches a new low.
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/ 29 October 2011
A car bomber killed 13 American troops in Kabul on Saturday, the deadliest single ground attack against the Nato-led force in 10 years of war.
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/ 29 October 2011
A suicide bomber has exploded his car near a convoy of foreign forces travelling through the Afghan capita, killing three civilians and a policeman.
Days after a visit to Kabul visit by Hillary Clinton, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, says he would side with Pakistan in the event of war with the US.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Washington and Pakistan must get the Taliban and Haqqani network involved in the Afghan peace process.
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/ 15 October 2011
The Afghan parliament has agreed to start repaying the central bank for its bailout of Kabulbank with a first instalment of $51-million.
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai has sought to ease concerns in Pakistan, already feeling isolated, about a key agreement with India.
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/ 21 September 2011
Afghans gathered to mourn assassinated former president and chief peace negotiator Burhanuddin Rabbani on Wednesday.
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/ 21 September 2011
A Taliban suicide bomber on Tuesday killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, former Afghan president and head of the government’s peace council.
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/ 14 September 2011
An assault by Taliban insurgents on the heart of Kabul’s diplomatic enclave has ended after 20 hours, when security forces killed six attackers.
Afghanistan’s election body has cleared the table by throwing nine lawmakers out of Parliament in a bid to settle a year of disputes over elections.
The UK’s PM says a "cowardly" attack on a British cultural centre in Kabul on Friday will not stop the country’s "vital work" in Afghanistan.
A British couple suspected of terrorist-related activities are expected to be returned to the United Kingdom and face possible arrest.
A suicide bomber killed the mayor of Afghanistan’s Kandahar city on Wednesday, two weeks after the assassination of President Hamid Karzai’s brother.
The assassination of a close ally and mentor of Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai after the killing of his powerful half-brother has raised questions
Gunmen killed an adviser to Afghan President Hamid Karzai in a gunbattle in Kabul on Sunday, officials said.
A brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and one of the most powerful men in southern Afghanistan was shot dead at his home on Tuesday.
It’s nice to see that feminism is finally making sensibly clad strides in Taliban-contested areas, writes <b>Chris Roper</b>.
US President Barack Obama’s decision to bring troops home from Afghanistan could jeopardise the next major push of the war, John McCain has warned.