Officials of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees are meeting with Iranian authorities in Tehran Tuesday to discuss the development of a repatriation plan for Afghan refugees. Agency officials said ...
The U.N. refugee agency said Tuesday that it believes 135,000 new Afghan refugees have entered Pakistan since September 11. At least 75,000 are thought to have entered the North West Frontier province ...
Islamabad (CNN) — Afghanistan and Pakistan said they had agreed a 48-hour ceasefire on Wednesday, following days of deadly clashes between the neighbors and former allies. The fighting followed ...
Atmar said security has improved in some provinces and deteriorated in others, but he's confident the Taliban can be defeated. "We have to show the resolve, the determination, and the ability to make ...
August had the most fatalities this year for civilians in Afghanistan because of the country's disputed election, and violence could rise again when the final results are released, a U.N. report warns ...
Afghan fighters were conducting cave-by-cave searches Tuesday, looking for al Qaeda fighters and Osama bin Laden, as 15 of bin Laden's soldiers arrived in Kandahar for questioning by FBI agents.
Richard Holbrooke was the United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 1999-2001. He was Assistant Secretary of State for Europe from 1994-1996, and during that time brokered the 1995 Dayton ...
Story Highlights At least two of the five service members killed were from the U.S. August the deadliest month for U.S. troops since the Afghan war started in 2001 KABUL, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Five ...
The U.N.'s top Afghanistan envoy said Thursday he can't provide a time frame for finding a political solution that will yield a future government for the war-ravaged country. "I think we will go as ...
Afghan interim leader Hamid Karzai asked the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to extend and expand the mandate of multinational security forces in Afghanistan. Karzai made his remarks to the ...
The two deadly attacks are separate, and no evidence currently links the two. But for the two South Asian rivals, the ...