Appointments by the shaky government of interim leader Hamid Karzai have been met with resistance as former Taliban leaders and rival warlord refuse to cede power. If the pattern repeats all over the ...

NGO/Non-Government Organizations will sometimes ask, or demand, that the UN or other foreign governments send in peacekeeping troops to protect the NGOs from hostile locals. This had disastrous ...

Muttaqi accused Pakistan of repeatedly violating Afghanistan's sovereignty and trying to shift blame for its internal security failures. He said tensions between the two countries had worsened due to ...

The U.N.'s top Afghanistan envoy said Thursday he can't provide a time frame for finding a political solution that will yield a future government for the war-ravaged country. "I think we will go as ...