Afghan journalist Sayed Hamid Noori, who was working in RTA TV and was a member of journalist association was killed by unknown authority last night (on sunday 05 sep 2010) in front of his house in Kabul, The capital city of Afghanistan Investigation...

The Taliban have called for a UN and human rights investigation into an air strike in Afghanistan on Friday that killed dozens of people. The independent Afghanistan Rights Monitor group says up to 70 civilians died in the Kunduz province raid. The Nato...

Detailed polling records released by an Afghanistan election commission reveal numerous polling places in Kandahar Province where all the votes were delivered to a single candidate — incumbent President Hamid Karzai . The records bolster the case of...

Every single voter in the village of Torzai in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province backed incumbent Hamid Karzai for president, official results showed, and at four of its eight polling stations, he received exactly 500 votes. The election...

The leading challenger in Afghanistan’s presidential vote urged electoral officials Saturday to stop announcing preliminary results because of “highly suspicious numbers” in tallies released so far. Results from the Aug. 20...

KABUL – NATO launched an airstrike on two fuel tankers hijacked by Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan, sparking a huge blast that killed up to 90 people, including 40 civilians, Afghan officials said Friday. Militants seized the two trucks,...

Senior Afghan election officials are locked in a row over how to disqualify fraudulent votes in a disagreement analysts said could determine the result. The head of the Independent Election Commission (IEC) has asked staff to tally all ballot boxes,...

Hamid Karzai has extended his lead in the race for the Afghan presidency, but is still short of the 50 per cent needed to avoid a run-off, elections officials have said. With more than 60 per cent of votes tallied, Karzai, the incumbent, held 47.3...

Afghanistan’s presidential elections, due this year, were delayed by several months today and serious concerns remain about whether the polls can be held even by the new date in August. President Hamid Karzai’s term officially expires in...

WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will give President Barack Obama his formal recommendation on new U.S. troop deployments to Afghanistan within days, the Pentagon said on Thursday. “I would think in the coming...