President Bush rebuffed Afghan President Hamid Karzai's effort to gain greater control over U.S. military operations in his country Monday, as the two leaders endorsed an agreement allowing the United ...

Karzai also met Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to discuss the international peace-keeping force which is set to arrive in Afghanistan shortly after the new administration is sworn in. Italy ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 21 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he was shocked by allegations that U.S. soldiers had abused detainees in Afghanistan. He said his government wanted ...

KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 19 -- Afghanistan's first democratically elected parliament in more than three decades opened Monday, with President Hamid Karzai making an impassioned plea for the revived ...

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 ...

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 ...

Many believe Karzai simply did not want to be remembered as the president who permitted foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan. Karzai inherited a broken country when the Americans and their allies ...

In March when President Obama paid a call on Afghan President Hamid Karzai, he was all impatience and disdain. Karzai was running a corrupt government, the upcoming elections were already looking ...

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 ...

Nov 2 (Reuters) - Election officials on Monday declared Hamid Karzai the winner of Afghanistan's disputed presidential poll after cancelling a planned run-off. Here is a timeline of major Afghan ...

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, Khair ...