In statement from Kabul, U.S military said Bales also was charged with assaulting and attempting to murder six other Afghan civilians during in the early morning hours of March 11. ..…

Taliban say the group's representatives have met with Afghan Saudi Arabia to discuss ahead of next month's vote. ..…

Fully 96% of Afghans and 87% of Iranians both overwhelmingly Muslim populations report praying, reflecting pattern of high levels of Muslim-majority countries. ..…

Not a week goes by without an attack, mainly against the U.S. troops still based there, or against the Afghan military trained by them. . ... But little or nothing has been invested to alleviate the situation of the impoverished Afghan people. . ..…

Beyond the differences from country to country, region can be identified that runs from Morocco to Afghanistan, including all Arab peoples, Turks, Iranians, Afghans, and peoples of Soviet Central Asian republics, in. ..…

Afghan government now estimates that Taliban control 85 percent of Helmand, and locals refer to the town of Musa Qala as Taliban's capital. ..…

Taliban's resurgence has alarmed Afghan government. Both the US military and NATO have announced plans for sending thousands of additional troops to the country to help check Taliban advances. But Afghan president has come to the conclusion that Taliban cannot be defeated and have to..…

Human Rights Watch and other nongovernmental organizations have called on Afghan government, as ICC state party, to cooperate fully with the court, as Rome Statute requires.  9. ..…

The prosecutor is seeking permission to investigate alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes by Taliban and affiliated forces, Afghan National Security Forces, and US armed forces and Central Intelligence Agency. ... But while the US angle is important, it should not overshadow the fact that..…

Human Rights Watch has documented human rights violations, including summary executions, forced disappearances, and systematic torture by Afghan government forces, particularly National Directorate of Security, Afghan National Police, and Afghan Local Police. The application..…

Europe has also experienced its own refugee crisis Afghans, Iraqis and others escaping in their countries, with nearly 1.3 million refugees applying for asylum in European Union, Norway and Switzerland in 2015. ..…

Earlier on Monday, Ayatollah Khamenei also met Afghan President Ashraf Ghani in Tehran. . ..…

Unrest in Afghanistan Accelerates, Issue of Pak-Afghan Security . . . . . . . . . . ..…

In series of YouTube videos, to be Afghan analyst and leader,  says Washington Post... ..…

Journalist Anand Gopal is author of the award-winning book No Good Men Among Living America, Taliban, and War Through Afghan Eyes and of numerous articles about U.S wars and occupations in Middle East for Wall Street Journal, Christian Science Monitor and Nation, among other publications. ..…

Some of the Taliban are Afghans; some are not. Some belong to the al-Qaida terrorist network; some do not. ... Karzai has also indicated that the Afghans among the Taliban would be treated more favorably than the non-Afghans. ..…

He was captured by Afghan military forces in late November 2001, turned over to the U.S. military and taken to the Guantanamo Bay prison. . ..…

Khalilzad, Afghan American of endless charm and energy, is constant motion, even as his key Iraq is about to undergo substantial change. ..…

Kosovars, Albanians, Serbs, Macedonians, and Montenegrins will be sent back, and so also will Pakistanis, Afghans, Somalis, Eritreans, even Libyans.. ..…

One of the so-called Afghan Arabs who participated in this insurgency was none other than Osama bin Laden. ..…

For these reasons, more than 7 million Afghans lived outside of Afghanistan in 1990, many in Iran, Pakistan and other nearby countries. ..…

(Although the U.S. invaded and occupied Afghanistan under a different rationale, I also want to acknowledge the Afghan citizens who have been killed or wounded in the U.S. war in Afghanistan.) . ..…

America’s coming occupation was to produce images of suffering Afghans that would outrage Muslims from Indonesia to Morocco; al-Qaeda would lead the Afghans in a guerrilla war against the Americans, producing a quagmire that would engulf the last superpower, as it had—so the legend..…

Eleven Year Afghan War Too Much Say Demonstrators . By: Bill Sorem | October 14, 2012 . . . ... Click on Marie Braun picture to see 2012 Afghan War protest march. . . ..…

Afghan Solution The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, CIA and How Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan by Lucy Morgan Edwards. ... their attempts at reconciliation did not succeed, Soviets contact with Afghan commanders allowed Red Army to withdraw with few casualties in just nine months because..…

In Germany, for example, a Hamburg District Court on Feb. 13, 2009, found a German-Afghan man guilty of killing his sister in 2008 because he was angry over her perceived “Western” lifestyle, including how she dressed. . ..…

He has been covering Afghan conflict since 1978 and is based Peshawr.. ..…

For 30 years, invasion and war, the terror of Taliban, the spread of insurgency, he and his Libby helped bring Afghans, literally, the miracle of sight. ..…

Five of the 12 soldiers were accused of killing Afghan civilians 'for sport' in three separate incidents, and seven were implicated in the cover-up. . ..…

This sense of urgency also helped galvanize the coalition around the goals that we agreed to at NATO summit Lisbon — - that we are moving toward Afghanistan, transition to full Afghan lead for security that will begin next year and will conclude in 2014, even as NATO maintains commitment to..…

The Constitution qualifies that measure of protection, however, by stipulating that “no law can be contrary to the sacred religion of Islam” and instructing judges to rule according to Shariah law if no specific Afghan law applies to a case. In 2006, for example, an Afghan citizen, Abdul..…

Here he met with “Arab-Afghans,” Arabs who had gone to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets and stayed to fight for Osama bin Laden. ... He had money from the Saudis and contacts with the Afghans, so he was not alone.” . ..…

It's not Rwandans, Afghans, Sudanese or other populations that might appear the in need. ..…

Many Afghans believe voters are bribed – sometimes, often or always. This is a particularly chronic problem in Afghanistan. ... Many Afghans believe voters are bribed – sometimes, often or always. This is a particularly chronic problem in Afghanistan. ..…

KABUL, Afghanistan Amnesty International and Afghan art collective unveiled yesterday Kabul in the memory of AFP's sl. ..…

Only recently, an American sergeant major, an adviser to Afghan troops, was gunned down at a base near the Afghan capital, Kabul, in an “insider” or “green-on-blue” attack, a commonplace of that war. He was killed (and another American adviser wounded) by two allied Afghan..…