President Obama's spokesman refuses to call Afghan President Karzai an ally. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan April 7, 2010— -- Designer Tom Ford once called him the "chic-est man on the planet." Former ...

Does U.S. Understand the Karzai Problem? Dexter Filkins, in a long New York Times Magazine profile of top Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, worries that American forces don't ...

KABUL - Afghanistan's president told foreign powers Tuesday to stop meddling in the country's internal affairs - apparently lashing back at those who say rampant government corruption undermines ...

On Sunday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai shocked Afghan and international observers when he reached out to the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, offering him a guarantee of safety if he agrees to ...

A member of the Popalzai clan, part of the larger Pashtun tribe. Karzai was educated in India and is fluent in several languages, including English, Pashto, Dari and Urdu. His grandfather, Khair ...

Afghan president fears his own son may flee the country. KABUL, Afghanistan Sept. 28, 2010 -- The U.S. and Afghan governments imagine a point in the not too distant future when American troops are ...

We have of late been chronicling the utterances of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. First he meets with President Obama in Kabul, and thanks American taxpayers for their contributions to his nation.

Afghanistan's former president Hamid Karzai on Sunday called on the Taliban regime to allow girls and women to attend school and university, as the country marked 105 years of independence. Karzai ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been secretly meeting with Taliban operatives in a bid to negotiate peace while refusing to sign a U.S. security deal, a move that is not only testing already ...

With Abdullah Abdullah out of the run-off election, Hamid Karzai has been declared re-elected as President of Afghanistan. In Kabul, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has offered congratulations, at ...

KABUL (Reuters) - The Pentagon's top military officer followed his commander-in-chief to Kabul on Monday to keep up pressure on President Hamid Karzai to tackle corruption, which he said could ruin ...