Ebadullah Karimi, the Kabul police spokesman, said one Taliban fighter driving a car detonated a bomb outside parliament gates and six others took up positions near the building. Afghan forces killed ...

KABUL, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai has made his appointments to the upper house of Afghanistan's parliament, set to convene this month for the first time in over 30 years, officials said ...

KABUL -- Voting in Afghanistan’s parliamentary elections, which were marred by deadly militant attacks and delays caused by technical and organizational problems, ended on October 21. Abdul Badi Sayat ...

Abdul Zahir Qadir, a former Deputy Speaker of Afghanistan's parliament. [Courtesy, ODPP] Abdul Zahir Qadir, 492 a former Deputy Speaker of Afghanistan's parliament, will now be extradited to the ...

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 ...

KABUL - Afghanistan's election commission threw out 1.3 million fraudulent votes from last month's parliamentary elections, about a quarter of all ballots cast and roughly the same share as ...