Tag: Afghanistan

National Security

VIDEO: Bowe Bergdahl returns to active service

Ed Sykes · July 14, 2014 4:24 pm

Ahmad Yousuf Nouristani, chairman of Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission (IEC), center, speaks during a joint press conference as Jan Kubis, United Nation representative for Afghanistan, left, and Abdul Satar Saadat, chief of Afghanistan's Electoral Complaints Commission, listen at the IEC office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 13, 2014. Welcoming an agreement between the two top candidates brokered by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and the United Nations, Afghanistan's election commission hopes to finish an audit of 23,000 polling stations within three weeks. (AP photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghans express relief at election deal

JOHN DANISZEWSKIRAHIM FAIEZ · July 13, 2014 6:04 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, and Afghanistan's presidential candidates Ashraf Ghani, centre, and Abdulah Abdullah hold their arms in the air together after announcing a deal for the auditing of all Afghan election votes at the United Nations Compound in Kabul, Saturday, July 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)

Afghan rivals clinch deal, easing political crisis

Bradley Klapper · July 13, 2014 3:29 am

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, centre, talks with Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs chief of protocol Ambassador Hamid Siddiq, as Kerry arrives at Kabul International airport in Kabul, Friday July 11, 2014. Kerry is expected to meet with Afghanistan's President Kharzai as well as both candidates in Afghanistan's recent presidential election. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)

National Security

US struggles to resolve Afghan election crisis

Bradley Klapper · July 11, 2014 8:08 pm

Kerry arrives in Afghanistan to meet candidates

Bradley Klapper · July 11, 2014 4:10 am

FILE - This May 26, 2014 file photo shows Afghan President Hamid Karzai in New Delhi, India. Civilian assistance to Afghanistan was always slated to shrink with America's military footprint, but U.S. aid officials were caught off-guard when Congress, upset by testy relations with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, slashed civilian aid by 50 percent this year. War-weary lawmakers, content with the level of Afghan aid already in the pipeline, backed the cut, but officials with the U.S. Agency for International Development warn that reducing aid too quickly is risky. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das, File)

Afghan aid is dropping, but how fast is too fast?

Deb Riechmann · July 10, 2014 7:37 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, March 23, 2014 file photo, Shah Mohammad, older brother of killed Afghan Agence France-Press journalist Sardar Ahmad attempts to give a kiss to his niece Nilofar's picture during a funeral ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. Sardar, his wife and two of his young children were killed when four gunmen attacked the Serena hotel in Kabul during New Year's celebrations on March 20, 2014. The number of Afghan civilians, including children, killed in violence rose by nearly 17 percent in the first half of this year, compared with the same period in 2013 as the fight is increasingly taking place closer to homes in populated areas, the U.N. said Wednesday, July 9, 2014.(AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

UN: Afghan civilian death toll up so far this year

RAHIM FAIEZKIM GAMEL · July 9, 2014 10:02 am

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The U.S. has spent $626 million on embassy expansion it may not need in this country

Kelly Cohen · July 9, 2014 10:00 am

President Barack Obama meets with NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama intervenes in Afghan presidential election

Darlene Superville · July 8, 2014 11:36 pm

Afghan presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai addresses a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 8, 2014. Ahmadzai welcomed the announcement of the preliminary results of the election on Monday. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghan candidate rejects election results

AMIR SHAHRAHIM FAIEZ · July 8, 2014 6:20 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry greets media representatives flying aboard his plane bound for diplomatic talks in China while flying from Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Monday, July 7, 2014. Kerry is heading to Beijing to participate in the sixth round of the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. (AP Photo/Jim Bourg, Pool)

National Security

Kerry: Afghan power grab would mean US aid cutoff

Bradley Klapper · July 8, 2014 3:09 am

A supporter of Afghanistan's presidential candidate Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, holds his poster as he and scores of others celebrate in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, July 7, 2014. Afghan officials released preliminary election results Monday showing former finance minister Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai well in the lead for the presidency but said no winner can be declared because millions of ballots were being audited for fraud. The announcement came as Ahmadzai is locked in a standoff with his rival Abdullah Abdullah, who has refused to accept any results until all fraudulent ballots are invalidated. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghan officials: Ahmadzai leads in disputed vote

AMIR SHAHRAHIM FAIEZ · July 7, 2014 7:55 pm