(Al Jazeera English: November 20, 2009) Local and international forces in Afghanistan have been accused of shooting innocent civilians as they slept. The military, who arrest two other men, says...
(Al Jazeera English: November 19, 2009) Hamid Karzai has been sworn in to serve his second term as president of Afghanistan. In Pakistan, another suicide bomber has attacked the city...
(Al Jazeera English: November 18, 2009) Preparations for Iraqi elections originally scheduled for January have been postponed after the election plan was vetoed by Vice President Tariq al-Hashemi. In Afghanistan,...
Siddiq Barmak is currently one of only a few filmmakers in Afghanistan who is able to make feature films in his native country. His first feature film, "Osama", portrays...
(Al Jazeera English: November 12, 2009) As Barack Obama continues deliberation over the American military's role in Afghanistan, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said that American involvement was "not open-ended."...
(Al Jazeera English: November 10, 2009) Taliban fighters have seized American weapons that were abandoned by the U.S. Army in Afghanistan, according to this exclusive report. Other stories include the...
(Al Jazeera English: November 5, 2009) The United Nations is withdrawing hundreds of workers from Afghanistan following a Taliban attack on a UN guest house as a precautionary measure. Also...
(Al Jazeera English: November 3, 2009) As Hamid Karzai begins his second term as president of Afghanistan, he vows to bring unity to the country, and to listen to the...
(Al Jazeera English: November 2, 2009) After his chief rival Abdullah Abdullah withdrew from the runoff election, Hamid Karzai was named president of Afghanistan for five more years. In Pakistan,...
(Mosaic Intelligence Report: October 29, 2009) Election run-off is few days away in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai's brother is on the CIA's payroll. Should Obama send more troops to Afghanistan? And...
(Al Jazeera English: October 28, 2009) A market in northwest Pakistan was attacked by a car bomb; the Taliban claims responsibility for an attack in Kabul that left four U.N...
(Mosaic Intelligence Report: October 23, 2009) Afghanistan's recent election was hailed as an example of "democracy." But more than one million ballots were discounted due to fraud. Why isn't Karzai...
(Al Jazeera English: October 21, 2009) A runoff election is now scheduled to take place November 7 in Afghanistan following widespread fraud, and both incumbent President Hamid Karzai and rival...
(Al Jazeera English: October 20, 2009) A fraud inquiry reduced incumbent President Hamid Karzai's share of the Afghan vote to below 50%, forcing a runoff with rival candidate Abdullah Abdullah...
(Al Jazeera English: October 19, 2009) The UN-backed Electoral Complaints Commission has finished sifting through thousands of allegedly fraudulent ballots in Afghanistan, and reports indicate that Hamid Karzai will face...
