Congress' plummeting interest in spending generally, and in Afghanistan specifically, threatens to scuttle any ongoing relationship between the two countries.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Senior American and Afghan officials held talks Saturday to try to iron out the details of a key pact signed a year ago that def...

BRUSSELS — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry brought senior Afghan and Pakistani officials together Wednesday for security talks aimed at impro...

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan -- The United States accepts that a diminished but resilient Taliban is likely to remain a military threat in some parts...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — A weekend visit to Afghanistan by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is aimed at assessing the type and level of ad...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghan special forces took control of part of a troubled province bordering Kabul from U.S. troops on Saturday, ending a we...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Several hundred demonstrators chanting "U.S. special operations forces out!" marched to the Afghan parliament building in Kabul ...

The current Western war termination strategy in Afghanistan will fail if it ignores on ground realities and compelling needs for a negotiated settlement.

BRUSSELS -- Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and his NATO counterparts are considering leaving 8,000 to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, but a d...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Critics expressed worries Monday that a presidential order barring Afghan security forces from requesting international air...

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Barack Obama's decision to bring half of America's 66,000 troops home within a year was welcomed Wednesday by Afg...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Tuesday he will bring home within a year about half of the 66,000 U.S. troops now in Afghanistan, shrin...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- The United States began its withdrawal from Afghanistan in earnest, officials said Monday, sending the first of what will be ten...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan's defense minister expressed optimism on Tuesday that the United States will not abandon his country after fore...

U.S. president Obama and Afghan leader Hamid Karzai met on Thursday in Washington. And something must have been pretty amusing. What happened?...

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama says the U.S. role in Afghanistan will shift to a support role later this spring and he will soon get recommendat...

By Hamid Shalizi KABUL, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Afghan lawmakers said on Wednesday disaster and civil war would follow if Washington pushed ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 8 (Reuters) - The Obama administration does not rule out a complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan after...

Right from 1947, Pakistan has feared a strategic encirclement (also referred to as "the pincer movement") by its two neighbors, India and Afghanistan.

Afghan president Hamid Karzai's order to his forces to wrest control of Bagram prison from the U.S. highlights Afghans' growing testiness. It comes just as talks begin on new security arrangements to govern a continued U.S. military presence.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- By switching from studying business management to training as a nurse, 19-year-old Anita Taraky has placed a bet on the futur...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- A new chapter of the Afghanistan war is opening with a slimmed-down Western force doing more advising than fighting, a resilient...