President Obama's spokesman refuses to call Afghan President Karzai an ally. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan April 7, 2010— -- Designer Tom Ford once called him the "chic-est man on the planet." Former ...

Runoff election taking months likely; meanwhile, bombings kill more than 40, including four U.S. soldiers. A policeman stands at the site after five car bombs detonated simultaneously in Afghanistan’s ...

Barack Obama will have to do some awfully embarrassing things as president. The whole pardoning the turkey thing on the eve of Thanksgiving comes to mind. And then there's the taking John Boehner ...

Other Facts: A member of the Popalzai clan, part of the larger Pashtun tribe. Karzai was educated in India and is fluent in several languages, including English, Pashto, Dari and Urdu. His grandfather ...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai and the Obama administration have had a tense relationship from the start. But it seems to be worsening, as Karzai lashes out against U.S. pressure on him, and the U.S.

On Sunday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai shocked Afghan and international observers when he reached out to the fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, offering him a guarantee of safety if he agrees to ...

Afghan president fears his own son may flee the country. KABUL, Afghanistan Sept. 28, 2010 -- The U.S. and Afghan governments imagine a point in the not too distant future when American troops are ...

Does U.S. Understand the Karzai Problem? Dexter Filkins, in a long New York Times Magazine profile of top Afghanistan commander General Stanley McChrystal, worries that American forces don't ...

Afghanistan's former president Hamid Karzai on Sunday called on the Taliban regime to allow girls and women to attend school and university, as the country marked 105 years of independence. Karzai ...

We have of late been chronicling the utterances of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. First he meets with President Obama in Kabul, and thanks American taxpayers for their contributions to his nation.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has been secretly meeting with Taliban operatives in a bid to negotiate peace while refusing to sign a U.S. security deal, a move that is not only testing already ...