Former defense secretary Robert Gates has delivered a scathing critique of President Barack Obama's handling of the war in Afghanistan in a revealing new memoir, US media reported Tuesday.
In the Bost Hospital here, a teenage mother named Bibi Sherina sits on a bed in the severe acute malnutrition ward with her two children. Ahmed, at just 3 months old, looks bigger than his emaciated brother Mohammad, who is a year and a half and weighs 10 pounds.
Pakistan's truck artists, who transform ugly lorries into flamboyant moving works of art, fear boom times for their trade could be at an end as NATO winds down its mission in Afghanistan.
Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said that the Australian Tarin Kot military base in the Uruzgan province in Afghanistan was closed on Sunday. He said on Monday that the troops were returning home.
The U.S. envoy to Afghanistan says a delay in signing a security agreement between the U.S. and Afghanistan is raising anxiety and imposing unnecessary costs on the Afghan people.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, in a meeting with his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai in Tehran on Sunday, voiced his concern about the presence of foreign forces in the region, specially in Afghanistan.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif visited Kabul on Saturday for talks with President Hamid Karzai as part of efforts to revive Afghanistan's peace process before NATO troops withdraw next year.
Tehran, YJC. Chief of Iran’s Narcotics Police says that despite efforts to lower Afghanistan’s production of narcotic plantation, the amount has increased.
Former finance minister Ashraf Ghani on Monday launched his bid to become the next president of Afghanistan, kickstarting the 2014 election race as the first big name to declare his candidacy.
Tehran, YJC. -- Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Araqchi welcomes direct peace talks between leaders of Afghanistan and Pakistan as Afghan President Hamid Karzai is on an official visit to Islamabad.
Tehran, YJC. -- Pakistan could end the Afghan war "in weeks" if it were serious about peace, and is complicit in US drone strikes despite its denunciations of the anti-militant campaign, Afghanistan's army chief says.