The government of Afghanistan has beefed up security measures ahead of presidential inauguration scheduled for Sept. 29 here.
Outgoing Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Tuesday said that returning durable peace in his conflict-ridden country depends on the cooperation from the United States and Pakistan.
Afghan Independent Election Commission (IEC) on Sunday declared Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai as the new president of Afghanistan, the IEC chief Ahmad Yousuf Nuristani said.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Sunday pledged to support the new Afghan government emerging from months-long wrangling over the result of a presidential run-off.
It is impossible for NATO to have direct military involvement in the Ukraine crisis unless the eastern European country becomes a member, a British defense expert at a leading think-tank said Friday.
NATO leaders at the Wales Summit on Thursday outlined the long-term engagement in Afghanistan after the end of the NATO-led combat mission in the country since 2003.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Thursday kicked off its 26th summit at the Celtic Manor Resort in Newport, southeast Wales of Britain, with nearly 60 world leaders invited to attend the two-day gathering.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who arrived in Afghanistan Thursday night, has met presidential candidates Abdullah Abdullah and his opponent Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai separately.
When Pakistan launched its long- awaited major military offensive against the local Taliban and other foreign jihadists in their main sanctuary in North Waziristan last month, the army formally requested the Afghan security forces to boost border security to stop fleeing militants from crossing the border.
The deadlock in the presidential election in Afghanistan has emboldened the Taliban and other militant groups to wage armed attacks in several parts of the country, according to local analysts here.
A senior Afghan official on Monday called on the country's new administration led by the new president to be chosen in the June 14 run-off election to seize the country's advantages to boost socioeconomic development.
Pakistan on Wednesday welcomed U. S. President Barack Obama's drawdown scheme of forces in Afghanistan, noting that the country "stressed the importance of a responsible drawdown and cautioned against the creation of a security vacuum."
Afghan government on Wednesday welcomed U.S. president's plan to keep about 9,800 troops after 2014 in Afghanistan but virtually withdrawing all by the end of 2016.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he planned to leave 9,800 American troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014.
Top military commanders of Pakistan, Afghanistan and NATO met in Kabul on Monday and discussed the border coordination and reviewed the current security situation in Afghanistan, officials said.
Afghanistan's local newspapers in their editorials on Tuesday called for an electoral commission to look into complaints filed against the April 5 presidential elections.
As tensions heightened between Pakistan and Afghanistan in recent weeks over cross-border shelling, Islamabad said on Thursday it will work with the new Afghan government to improve relationship.
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