ARTICLES RELATING TO
HAMID KARZAI
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has condemned a suicide attack in Kabul where a bomber dressed in a police uniform killed 14 people including a prominent provincial council chief.
A suicide bomber has rammed his car into a Nato convoy in the Afghan capital, killing at least 12 people, including two coalition troops, four civilian contractors and two children, officials say.
Pakistan's incoming prime minister Nawaz Sharif looks set to be a pragmatic ally of Washington, unlikely to end the war against the Taliban as he seeks to focus on fixing the economy.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has pressed for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison as President Barack Obama mulls a renewed push before a reluctant US Congress.
Afghanistan, the world's largest grower of opium poppies, should not shoulder all the blame for its drug surge, its foreign minister says.
A rights group has called for Afghan authorities to provide separate toilets and changing rooms at police stations for women officers, saying they face harassment and assault at work.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has brought senior Afghan and Pakistani officials together for security talks, aimed at improving relations between the two nations.
Secretary of State John Kerry says he would host a meeting of top Afghan and Pakistani officials this week in Brussels to discuss reconciliation with the Taliban and other issues.
US President Barack Obama has spoken to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, for what officials said were regular consultations, three days after a Nato air strike killed 11 Afghan children.
Gunfire from a helicopter operated by Nato forces has killed four Afghan police officers in the eastern province of Ghazni, says a district police chief.
Taliban gunmen who killed 46 people at an Afghan court complex in a bid to free insurgents standing trial moved ruthlessly from room to room, shooting everyone they found, say officials.
Taliban militants have stormed an Afghan court, killing at least 44 people in a bid to free insurgents standing trial, in the deadliest attack for more than a year.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has vowed in Kabul to stick by Afghanistan as President Hamid Karzai hailed a "good day" for ties with the handover of a military jail.
A group of seven suicide bombers have attacked a police base in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad, killing five officers, police say.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has landed in Afghanistan for an unannounced visit, with relations badly frayed by Kabul's recent hostility to US-led military efforts in the country.
