Afghanistan’s Central Bank has taken control of the country’s biggest and most politically potent private bank and ordered its chairman to hand over $160 million worth of luxury villas and other real estate purchased in Dubai for...

Insurgents late Saturday launched coordinated ground and rocket attacks on Kandahar Air Field, the main coalition base in southern Afghanistan. Stray rocket and mortar attacks on the Kandahar base have been common in recent years, but before Saturday,...

President Hamid Karzai, whose cabinet nominations are under scrutiny by both Afghans and Western countries that aid Afghanistan, sought to reassure the world on Sunday that his proposed ministers were professionals rather than political favorites.

Two of the biggest goals for U.S. forces in Afghanistan are building up Afghan security forces and convincing Taliban fighters to lay down their arms — and cash could come into play in achieving both. U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, who...

Despite the unusual media coverage given to stories that report on the presence of Arab fighters in Pakistani tribal areas, for the local tribesmen, the presence of Arab-Afghan militants remains a mystery.

Looking back to almost seven years after Taliban, the situation of women seems to be improved, but on the contrary, the recent researches and the news published in the 8AM daily paper and several other local newspapers tell that the situation for women...