The final round in Afghanistan's presidential election has begun as voters headed for the polls to pick a successor to President Hamid Karzai who has been in power since the US-led military invasion ousted the Taliban in 2001.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is furious at being kept in the dark over a secret deal to free five Taliban leaders in exchange for a captured US soldier, a senior source said on Monday.
Afghanistan announces the preliminary results of its landmark presidential election, as the former Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah emerges on top but not with enough votes to avoid a run-off poll.
Four voters have been wounded in an explosion at a polling station in the southeastern province of Logar, a few hours after Afghanistan's presidential poll got underway.
The Afghan and Pakistani leaders are expected to discuss security in Afghanistan after the NATO troop pullout and efforts to negotiate with the Taliban when they meet in Turkey Thursday.
The number of civilians killed and wounded in the conflict in Afghanistan climbed by 14% last year as fighting intensified between the government and insurgents, the United Nations says.
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai has warned that if the White House does not guarantee peace in Afghanistan, he will not sign the so-called Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the US.
Former US Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates has revealed Washington‘s efforts to oust Afghan President Hamid Karzai by attempting to manipulate the country's election in 2009.
US forces stationed in Afghanistan have gunned down a four-year-old boy, and the incident prompted a rebuke from President Karzai who is refusing to sign a security pact with the US unless it gives assurances of civilian safety.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has officially welcomed his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai at Sa’dabad Palace in northern Tehran, where the two presidents are scheduled to hold their meeting.
Senior Pakistani Taliban commander Latif Mehsud has been arrested in a military operation in Afghanistan, the Pentagon and Afghan sources say.
Pakistan has freed Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, co-founder of the Afghan Taliban, from jail, says a senior official of the Pakistani Interior Ministry.
Iran has welcomed talks between Pakistan and Afghanistan in a bid to resolve differences and maintain peace and stability in the region.
US fighters overnight air raid in Afghanistans eastern Paktia Province have left 65 dead, many injured.
Syrian Ambassador to Tehran Adnan Mahmoud says the country’s Prime Minister Wael Nader Al-Halqi will participate in the swearing-in ceremony of Hassan Rohani as the new president.
India says it will do all within its means to promote stability in Afghanistan after visiting President Hamid Karzai said he had given a military "wishlist" to the Indian government.
At least six US-led soldiers along with nine people have been killed and dozens wounded in a bomb attack on a military convoy in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
The Afghan government has ordered the withdrawal of US forces from Wardak and Logar within two weeks for fuelling insecurity and instability in the provinces neighboring the capital Kabul.