Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Qayum Karzai, who brought baby pumpkin in garlic yogurt to The Helmand restaurant he founded in Mount Vernon and who once ran for ...

In his new book, Karzai: The Failing American Intervention and the Struggle for Afghanistan (Wiley), Nick Mills, a College of Communication associate professor of journalism, recounts the life of ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, June 24 -- After five days of confusion and false starts, the new government's cabinet was sworn in today, with several last-minute changes adding ethnic and political balance to ...

The inauguration of Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Thursday came with all the usual ceremonial flourishes, including a suffocating security cordon. But his second term is already beset by ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, July 12 -- Afghanistan's Pashtuns, the country's dominant ethnic group, say they are beginning to lose faith in President Hamid Karzai and to fear that the U.S. military campaign ...

The recent hasty and secretive signing of an intelligence-sharing agreement with Pakistan has led former Afghan President Hamid Karzai to part ways with the incumbent Afghan leader, Ashraf Ghani. The ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai pledged Thursday to prosecute corrupt officials, and said the country would control it own security within five years. Karzai's comments came in an inauguration speech ...

Afghan president Hamid Karzai has a sugar daddy, and its name is the Central Intelligence Agency. Or at least it had a sugar daddy. For over ten years, American spies greased Karzai's palms about once ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, speaks at a news conference in Kabul. Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, President Karzai's main challenger, speaks to journalists after a press conferenceLeft; Ahmad Masood / ...

DURING AFGHAN PRESIDENT HAMID Karzai’s first campaign outing two weeks ago, an enemy rocket whizzed by his U.S. military helicopter and slammed into the camelback hills where he was supposed to land.

(Reuters) - The Afghan parliament on Saturday dealt President Hamid Karzai a painful political blow when they rejected over half of his cabinet nominees, including several close allies. Cabinet ...

KABUL (Reuters) - Ahmad Wali Karzai, the younger half-brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai and most powerful man in southern Afghanistan, was killed by a close associate on Tuesday. His death ...