US, Afghan presidents to meet in New York next week
Afghan President Hamid Karzai © AFP/File Shah Marai AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama will meet Afghan President Hamid Karzai on the sidelines…
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US confirms ‘outreach’ to Taliban
Afghan Taliban fighters pose for a picture © AFP/File Mohammad Yaqubi AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – Defense Secretary Robert Gates confirmed that US officials were involved…
US ‘holding talks with Taliban’: Karzai
Karzai says talks between US and Taliban are “going on well” © AFP Aamir Qureshi AFP KABUL (AFP) – The United States is holding talks…
Obama says sorry to Karzai for civilian deaths
Afghan Abdu Rahman, 7 © AFP/File Mauricio Lima AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Wednesday expressed his “sorrow” in a video conference…
US taking Afghan concerns ‘very seriously’: White House
Afghan President Hamid Karzai © AFP/File Shah Marai AFP ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (AFP) – A White House spokesman said Sunday that Washington was taking…
Heroin, the CIA in Afghanistan, 9/11 and the Mujahadeen
Kevin Hayden, Truth Is Treason Activist Post Afghan President Hamid Karzai has always been on the outside edge of politics. His claim to fame was…
How to Schedule a War
The Incredible Shrinking Withdrawal Date Tom Engelhardt Toms Dispatch Going, going, gone! You can almost hear the announcer’s voice throbbing with excitement, only we’re not…
CIA hired Karzai’s brother before 9/11, Woodward says
Ahmed Wali Karzai – Christian Science Monitor Jeff Stein Washington Post Ahmed Wali Karzai, the half-brother of Afghanistan’s president and boss of the strategically important…
Democracy is Overrated
Ivan Eland AntiWar American policymakers love to see purple thumbs in the developing world, especially in countries in which the United States has undertaken “nation-building”…